Along with research and community engagement, training has been one of the core activities of the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement since its inception. This page provides a window into the wide range of learning opportunities for students, professionals, leaders, and engaged citizens offered by organizations affiliated with our Centre, including formal certificate programs and one-off workshops delivered online or in-person.
Certificate Program in Community-Based Research
The Centre for Community-Based Research (CCBR) offers a range of practical skill-building mini courses to build the capacity of organizations, students, faculty and community members to use community research to make change. Courses are delivered synchronously online.
Conflict Management Certificate Program
The Conflict Management Certificate Program is a versatile and well-rounded professional development program which delivers skills-based training workshops led by accomplished practitioners and academics invested in learner success. The workshops incorporate a transformative approach to conflict that places people and relationships at the center. Workshops are delivered in person and synchronously online.
Tamarack Institute offers workshops, webinars, and courses to help community members, organizations, and institutions create community change. Learners can explore areas such as Collective Leadership, Community Engagement, and Asset-Based Community Development.
The Ripple Effect Education (TREE) offers custom workplace and community workshops, training for teachers and non-profit educators, and workshops for K-12 classrooms around Conflict Resolution, Social Justice, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, Celebration of Diversity, and Peace Building.
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) actively promotes the pursuit of peace through teaching conflict transformation skills and peacebuilding strategies, facilitating relationship-building across divides, and providing communities with educational and advocacy resources about peace.
Instructors Spotlight
Dr. Chúk Odenigbo is the Consulting Director of Evaluating Impact at the Tamarack Institute. A recognized changemaker in Canada, Chúk’s formal education centres the environment, chemistry, public health and medical geography. With more than a decade of experience in environmental activism, adult education, project management, community engagement and co-designing towards the future, Chúk’s work is not only informed by his academic background but also his lived experiences as a Black Francophone in Canada.
Dayan De Souza is a Centre Researcher at CCBR who is passionate about building equitable communities, policy and research, and affordable housing. Prior to CCBR she contributed to the anti-Black racism strategy at Toronto Community Housing Corporation and worked to improve conditions for Black tenants and staff. This built on her undergraduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University and master's research on accessing housing, homelessness, and poverty reduction.
Betty Pries, as Co-Founder and CEO at Credence & Co., brings a wealth of experience to her work, having worked with a wide range of organizations, both nationally and internationally. With over 20 years’ experience mediating, facilitating, training, consulting and public speaking, Betty is highly regarded as a Conflict, Change and Leadership Specialist. Betty is a Chartered Mediator with the ADR Institute of Canada and a member of the ADR Institute of Ontario. Betty is also an instructor at the University of Waterloo.
