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Life-Coaching Skills for Adult Educators and Trainers
Learning & Working in a Virtual World
Designing & Delivering Dynamic Workshops
Needs Assessment in Adult Education & Training
Culturally Diverse Approaches to Adult Learning

Life-Coaching Skills for Adult Educators and Trainers
September 14-15, 2012

Many educators fail to educate from a perspective of developing the individual rather than teaching them. To effectively own their learning students need to be made aware of their innate capacities. Educators must be able to provide relevant information and tools that will facilitate students’ abilities to draw on their innate capacities for learning.

This workshop provides adult educators and trainers with a structured approach to incorporating the principles and tools of Life Coaching into their practice. Steeped in evidence-based theory and drawing on the principles of behaviour change, training will build on educators’ existing body of knowledge and experience while coaching them on how to transfer the tools of Life Coaching to their students. Participants in this workshop will learn:
- Introduction to the principles of Life Coaching
- The IDARE Life Coaching Framework
- 7 essential Life Coaching tools
- Practical application of the IDARE Framework and Life Coaching tools
Specific skills include how to:? coach students to take action and create supportive learning structures in their lives, ask powerful questions, start from where your students are at and move them forward, and identify barriers and distractions to change.

Learn practical tools you can easily integrate into your practice, how to facilitate the self-learning journey of your students and spend less time spent on distractions and more on what matters most to learners and to create a truly ‘learner-centered’ learning environment.
This course is 15 hours CACE elective credit.

CACE elective credit: 15 hours
Time: Fri/Sat, 8:30am-4:30pm
Course no: 43024 12-01 (Aspects of Adult Education)
Fee: $310
Instructor: Phyllis Reid-Jarvis

Learning & Working in a Virtual World
October 19- 20, 2012

Blog this, Skype that, Facebook me, Google it! Online technologies have found their way into our day to day vocabulary. This is a clear indication that they influence more than our speech or language; they now underlie the social, economic and environmental aspects of our lives. How we work, learn and play is increasingly shaped by emerging technologies. But with their use, workplace, institutional and social barriers have surfaced, that prevent a transition to the virtual work, learning or play place. What is the most appropriate balance to ensure productivity while encouraging use? These technologies are upon us; it is impossible to return to the old order of things.

This two day course will examine emerging technologies that shift our lives from the physical to the virtual, and how we can learn and work under this new paradigm. Through the use of a sustainable development framework which guarantees our present development and those of future generations, participants will examine technology’s influence on their personal learning and working lives. They will also conduct an evaluation of their personal learning environment in relation to this framework. The course will address concerns such as plagiarism, cyber-criminality, and identity and privacy in a virtual world.

Expect a variety of approaches in the workshop delivery, including small group discussions, lectures, and hands- on interaction. It is particularly suitable for adult learners and teachers, learning and development specialists and workers.
This course is 15 hours CACE elective credit.

CACE elective credit: 15 hours
Time: Fri/Sat, 8:30am-4:30pm
Course no: 43024 12-02
Fee: $310
Instructor: Ben Akoh

Designing & Delivering Dynamic Workshops
November 15-16, 2012

This hands-on, participatory workshop will feature trainer and course facilitator Hugh Phillips’s new book – The Trainer in You... how to design & deliver dynamic workshops. Highlights of this two day workshop include:
... The Trainer’s Cycle - an easy to use six step plan to design any workshop for anyone.
... Interactive Lecture Techniques (ILT’s) - creative ways to get your message across with increased understanding and retention.
... Twelve ways to hook an audience - keeping learners interested throughout the day
... Hands on application techniques – how to make your content relevant and get the results you want
... Q & A – the art of being clear, concise and credible!
... Seven trainer cornerstones to almost guarantee instructor success for you
... Working productively with passives and prisoners – how to get positive results with problem people
... POWERtool pad – an efficient planning aid that integrates learning styles with the six step training cycle to create practical, proven and powerful workshops
... And much more!

The Trainer in You book will be made available on the first morning of the course. The book is mandatory for the course. The price is $ 42.75 ($ 39.95 plus GST). Payment can be made in one of five ways – VISA, MC, Cash, Cheque or a signed Company Purchase order. Cheques are made payable to: HP TrainingWorks Inc.
This course is 15 hours CACE elective credit.

CACE elective credit: 15 hours
Time: Thu/Fri 8:30am-4:30pm
Course no: 43024 12-03
Fee: $370
Instructor: Hugh Phillips

Needs Assessment in Adult Education & Training
February 8-9, 2013

Needs assessment has long been considered an essential element in planning education and training programs for adult learners, but there is often confusion about what the concept represents and what the process involves. Basing programs on the needs of adults is a basic tenet of adult education, so it is important to understand what needs assessment is, how it is done, and what its strengths and weaknesses are.

- This workshop will focus on needs assessment as a powerful tool for planning programs but will also introduce several lower-cost, less-complex alternatives. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

- Explain the role of needs assessment as a means to justify and focus educational programs for adults

- Construct practical and efficient needs assessments for use with any group of learners

- Develop a process for determining which needs should be of highest priority

- Describe alternatives to needs assessment and the advantages and disadvantages of each

- Analyze a situation and determine whether needs assessment or one of the alternatives is the best choice

- Understand the technical, social-political and ethical domains of needs assessment and how to address problems and questions in each

The sessions will involve brief lectures, discussion and small group work on needs assessment cases.

CACE elective credit: 15 hours
Time: Fri/Sat, 8:30am-4:30pm
Course no: 43008 12-01
Fee: $310
Instructor: Margerit Roger

Culturally Diverse Approaches to Adult Learning
March 15-16, 2013

Are you someone who believes there are many ways of knowing and learning? Have you ever wondered how different cultures, traditions, perspectives and experiences may be used to enrich curriculum and engage learners? This two-day workshop is designed for adult educators who want to think outside the mainstream and engage in fresh thinking and experimentation in the quest to develop learning experiences that are culturally rich and encourage creativity. If you are interested in building learning experiences that merge East with West, indigenous with immigrant, and/or non-traditional with traditional, this workshop will be of interest to you. Teachers, trainers, facilitators, coaches and lifelong learners will benefit most from this learning experience. This workshop is 15 hours CACE elective credit.

CACE elective credit: 15 hours
Time: Fri/Sat, 8:30am-4:30pm
Course no: 43024 12-04
Fee: $310
Instructor: Diane Kristjansson