Training

Available in multiple formats including live training and online, on-demand through the Arts Amplifier Training Hub.

For online, on-demand training, consider:

Creating and Funding Your Own Community Project using the City of Vancouver’s Neighbourhood Matching Fund

This five-step module is designed to help you develop a neighbourhood project with which you can then apply for funding from Vancouver Park Board's Neighbourhood Matching Fund. In this short course, you will learn how to:

  • Nurture an idea,
  • Find a suitable not-for-profit partner,
  • Co-develop a project,
  • Gain community approval,
  • Get editorial support from the Arts Amplifier, and
  • Submit your application to the City of Vancouver.

Available on the Arts Amplifier Training Hub

How to Start Consulting or Freelancing

This three-step self-paced course will help you set up and begin running your own small business. You will learn how to create a business plan, get tips on how to set the right strategy, and find project management tools and resources to put your plan into practice.

Available on the Arts Amplifier Training Hub

The Power of Story - Cate Friesen, The Story Source

Join Cate Friesen, founder of The Story Source, in a live recording of "The Power of Story" to give you the tools to connect, communicate, and advance your goals. A workbook is included for you to follow along and create your story.

Available on the Arts Amplifier Training Hub

Introduction to Ethics of Changemaking

Brought to you in collaboration with the UBC Centre for Community Engaged Learning

This module will introduce you to core concepts and terms that are foundational to understanding ethical community engagement, including power, privilege, positionality, intersectionality, reciprocity, ethics, and community. This module focuses on locating yourself within the intersections of these key concepts. You will be supported to think critically about what that means for your own future community engagement practice.

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Storytelling for Change

Brought to you in collaboration with the UBC Centre for Community Engaged Learning

Participants will look at the role that stories play in social change work and will learn about the power of stories as tools for connection and reflection. Participants will learn how to develop and tell their own stories, as a strategy to move people to action.

Available on the Arts Amplifier Training Hub

Knowledge Exchange Through Social Media

Brought to you in collaboration with the UBC Knowledge Exchange unit

This self-paced training module walks you through the step-by-step process to begin using social media to facilitate a two-way exchange of knowledge between researchers and the public.

Available on the Arts Amplifier Training Hub

Building Professional Relationships

In this two-step module, you'll learn how to connect with new contacts through informational interviewing and through involvement in professional associations, and to keep your professional relationships alive in the long term.

Available on the Arts Amplifier Training Hub

For group-based online training, consider: