IONS - Impact Organizations of Nova Scotia

Navigating the Human Resource Intervals Toolkit
2022-02-24 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Halifax) | Nova Scotia
Join us February 24 as Imagine Canada showcases their new toolkit for HR Management tailored to the Community Impact (Nonprofit) Sector.

Navigating the HR Intervals Toolkit with Imagine Canada
Join us virtually on February 24th, 10 AM-11:30 AM
Learning Stream: Sustainable Operations

With the pandemic disrupting the sector’s workplace practices, increasing demand dor services and programs and adding significant stress on teams – accessing Human Resource Management best practices is more crucial than ever for nonprofits. The Community Impact Sector relies on our people to craft and deliver essential, innovative services to help communities thrive. Yet most organizations do not have an HR department or access to the information and resources they need to perform HR functions within their organizations. This is where Imagine Canada’s recently launched HR Intervals Toolkit can support your efforts with a rich collection of educational and practical materials that reflect the sector’s unique and evolving needs.
This 1.5 hour session is a combination of information and content sharing to understand how to navigate and apply the HR Intervals Toolkit, as well as an interactive Q&A session with an HR consultant and representatives from Imagine Canada.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Gain an understanding of the inheritance of legacy content, the rigorous content review process and general analytics and trends around its use.
Learn how to navigate the Resource library with offers of suggestions on how to effectively use the toolkit.
Next steps and details shared by Imagaine Canada about the evolution of this project.

Who Is this webinar For? This session is designed for anyone that performs HR functions including Executive Directors, HR profressionals, board members, managers, operations personnel, and other staff.

Speaker: Bruce Macdonald
When carnivals and social good combined, it pointed to a 30-year path that Bruce has been walking that route. From working for organizations that provide services to young people, older adults, persons with disabilities, community service clubs and sports and recreation groups, Bruce’s experiences have led him to Imagine Canada, where he is the President & Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada where he participated in a collective effort to bring mentoring programs to kids. Bruce holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sports Administration from Laurentian University, a Master’s in management in the Voluntary Sector from McGill University and a former record in the Guinness Book of World Records. In early 2019, Bruce was appointed Co-Chair of the Permanent Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector working with the federal government.
Speaker: Heather McCarthy
Heather McCarthy is an HR professional with over 15 years of experience working in small to medium-sized technology-based organizations. She holds a BA, Psychology from the University of Guelph, a post-graduate certificate in HR Management from Sheridan College, and maintains her Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL) designation. Her areas of expertise include talent acquisition, policy development and implementation, and performance management. Heather is currently the owner and principal of HR consulting firm, Impact HR+ located in Toronto, ON.
Speaker: Jeff Nicholls
Jeff Nicholls is a marketing technology and content management professional with over 15 years of experience spanning multiple sectors, including government, nonprofit and private enterprises. He has worked for some of Canada’s leading organizations, including YMCA GTA, Toronto Hydro, BDO Canada, Deloitte Canada and Altus Group. Jeff is currently the owner of The Constant Lure, a marketing technology consulting firm located in Minden, Ontario.

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ED Connections: Re-imagining Productivity
2022-02-23 09:00 - 10:30
Join us for a session exploring the evidence-based findings and two leaders’ modeled experience of redefining and achieving productivity.

You’re invited to the Connections Peer-to-Peer Networking with EDs
Join us virtually February 23rd, 9:00AM-10:30AM
Learning Stream: Healthy Workplaces

Holding spaces for collaboration and connection are core to our work at CSCNS. We’re hosting ED Connections (formerly called ED Networks) to help facilitate relationship development and peer-to-peer learning for senior leaders across the Community Impact Sector. This will be a space hosted for and by Executive Directors (or equivalents), to share what’s top of mind and have an opportunity for learning and personal reflection.
As the leader with a multitude of goals and targets to meet, the hierarchy of priorities often bumps performance to the top while everything else becomes an after-thought. As a result, many of us are experiencing high levels of burn out, work-related mental health challenges, and less energy for our other life commitments – ultimately making it harder to be impactful. Led by Annika Voltan, ED of CSCNS and Saralyn Hodgkins, Executive Coach of Holon Leadership, this session explores evidence-based findings and their modeled experience that paints a different picture of productivity, how we define it, and how we can achieve it. This content will lead to a discussion about challenges, as well as strategies that can benefit our organizational workplace culture and team wellbeing.
Annika and Saralyn co-authored a three-part article series titled “A Call to Reimagine Productivity” that can provide a point of reference and reflection for this session. You can find their articles at the links below:

Part One: A Call to Reimagine Productivity
Part Two: Beginning with Ourselves
Part Three: The Inner Work of Teams

Learning Objectives

Learn and explore different values around productivity and balance.
Evaluate what is aiding productivity and balance in your organization and what is prohibiting it.
Create an ethical space for collective learning and sharing of information, ideas and strategies.
Reduce feelings of overwhelm and isolation by providing space for deepening of connections and trust.

Who should attend this session?
This space is reserved for Executive Directors only (or the most senior person in the organization with alternate title such as General Manager, CEO etc.).

We hope you will join us in conversation!

Deepen your Capacity for Healthy Conflict
2022-02-15 10:00 - 11:30
Join us on February 15th to explore strategies for expanding your capacity to respond to conflict with dignity, respect, and authenticity.

Deepen your Healthy Conflict Capacity
Join us virtually February 15th, 10 AM-11:30 AM
Learning Stream: Healthy Workplaces

Have you ever been in a situation where you felt like a conflict was spiraling out of control? Maybe said something you regretted? Or compromised on your own needs to avoid a fight? Let’s face it, we all have been in those moments when our fight/ flight/ freeze response overwhelmed our capacity to respond thoughtfully. In this trauma-informed webinar, we will use a tool called the ‘Window of Capacity’ to better understand our nervous system’s natural reactions to stressful situations. This will be applied to interpersonal conflict as we explore strategies for expanding our capacity to respond to conflict with dignity, respect, and authenticity.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Understand how the nervous system reacts physically and emotionally to stressors.
Become more aware of your own nervous system patterns and your reactions in relation to conflict.
Identify ways to shift those patterns and reactions to increase your capacity to act intentionally when faced with conflict.

Who is this webinar for? This webinar is open to anyone who wants to increase their capacity to manage conflict whether in work or life.

Meet the Facilitator: Brook Thorndycraft
Brook Thorndycraft, MA, B.Ed., Q.Med works from K’jipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia) as a Mediator, Coach, Adult Educator, Facilitator, and Organizational Consultant. She has many years’ experience in the areas of conflict transformation, organizational change, adult and experiential education, and relational leadership. Brook coaches people who want to develop their relational leadership skills and strengthen their capacity to engage in change from the inside out. She supports people to build their emotional intelligence, build their confidence and sense of empowerment, navigate conflict or upheaval, lead with authenticity and compassion, steward an organization through change, and become aware of their own use of power.
Brook is a white queer cis-woman of Jewish, Austrian, and English ancestry. She brings many years of involvement in social justice work and organizing around issues including anti-racism and anti-oppression, prison justice, community healing, anti-poverty, sexual health, LGBTTIQ2SA issues, and migrant justice work. Brook comes to organizational work from a healing-centered perspective, recognizing both the individual and collective traumas that need to be healed and the importance of finding joy and connection. It’s not only about work. For her that involves singing loudly or walking her dog on the beach.

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CSCNS Black History Learning Journey: Series 2
2021-10-05 13:00 - 2021-10-26 15:00
Join us for an e-learning series exploring the social determinants of health, education, justice, housing, the environment, and employment.

Black History Learning Journey – Series 2
This year, the Nova Scotia Legislation officially designated August 1st as Emancipation Day in recognition of the history and impacts of slavery in the province. Following the Decolonization Learning Journey (hosted in partnership with Unama’ki College), the Black History Learning Journey is a further exploration of systemic racism and the shared history of colonization. As part of our continued learnings and action, the goal is to continue to increase individual and organizational participation in shared educational spaces, create meaningful dialogue, mobilize the sector, and provide tangible ways to combat anti-Black racism.
To help lead the conversation, the Community Sector Council of Nova Scotia (CSCNS) and the African Nova Scotia Decade of People of African Descent Coalition (ANS DPAD Coalition) have designed an engaging series to increase awareness about the Black Nova Scotian/ Canadian experience. The Black History Learning Journey will explore some of the key aspects of anti-Black racism and anti-Black policies, provide a history of African Nova Scotians, and discuss the impact on the Black experience in Nova Scotia today.
By examining the past to the present and challenging ourselves to have meaningful, honest conversations – we can lead a more inclusive future. For there to be transformative change, we must all listen, learn, share and act.

Continuing from Series 1 of the Black History Learning Journey “From Past to Present: The History & Legacy of Black Nova Scotians”, we’re excited to bring you the second series of this e-learning journey. Starting October 5th, series 2 “From Past to Policy: Systemic Barriers Built & Reinforced” will provide an in-depth look at the social determinants of health, education, justice, housing, the environment, and employment. What is the history of these policies, how have they been upheld, and how does it continue to impact Black Nova Scotians? What would a trauma-informed approach to policy look like? An experienced suite of facilitators (TBA!) will lead the learning around anti-Black policies and systemic barriers, bringing a wealth of knowledge in academia, community care, and advocacy.

Series 2 Schedule
This series is comprised of four (4) virtual sessions via Zoom Webinar scheduled for every Tuesday beginning October 5th from 1:00-3:00pm (ADT).

Session 1: Tuesday October 5th: Education
Session 2: Tuesday, October 12th: Justice
Session 3: Tuesday, October 19th: Self Determination (Environmental Racism/Housing)
Session 4: Tuesday, October 26th: Health

NOTE: All sessions are being recorded and the recordings will be available on our website (here) within one week of each session.

HOW TO REGISTER
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KAIROS Blanket Exercise
2021-09-30 13:00 - 16:30
Join us September 30th for the KAIROS Blanket Exercise! An event to celebrate the first National Day for Truth & Reconciliation.

The Mawita’mk Society and the Community Sector Council have partnered to bring the KAIROS Blanket Exercise to We’koqma’q First Nation as part of our shared and ongoing commitment to reconciliation, beginning with the unlearning and learning about Canada’s shared history. This event is one of a variety of events in the community to celebrate the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Together, Elders Vanessa Marshall, Heidi Marshall, and Karen Bernard will facilitate this powerful and interactive session. Attendance is free, however participants must pre-register. Space is limited to ensure COVID safety of participants.

Time: 1:00 – 4:30 pm
Cost to attend: FREE but must be pre-registered
Location: 9203 Trans Canada Highway 105

What is the Blanket Exercise?
In 1996, the Aboriginal Rights Coalition worked with Indigenous elders and teachers to develop an interactive way of learning the history most Canadians are never taught. The Blanket Exercise was the result; it has since been offered thousands of times across the land we know as Canada. The Blanket Exercise is based on using Indigenous methodologies and the goal is to build understanding about our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada by walking through pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization and resistance. Everyone is actively involved as they step onto blankets that represent the land, and into the role of First Nations, Inuit and later Métis peoples. By engaging on an emotional and intellectual level, the Blanket Exercise effectively educates and increases empathy. Immediately following the Blanket Exercise is a talking circle hosted by community Elders and the facilitators of the Exercise.

COVID Safety and Protocol
Though restrictions will be lifting over the next short while, the organizing committee is maintaining a high degree of caution around COVID to protect the safety of all participants including Elders. We ask that participants only register and attend if they are double vaccinated. Participants will be required to wear a mask throughout the exercise, with the exception of those with health issues preventing them from wearing one for extended periods of time. We will have contact tracing on-site, as well as hand sanitizer, and we’ll maintain 6’ distancing throughout the event.

For more information, please contact Rose Sylliboy at 902-623-1447 or rosie@mawitamk.org or Nicole Cammaert at (902) 549-0309 or ncammaert@ions.ca

CSCNS Black History Learning Journey: Series 1
2021-06-01 13:00 - 2021-06-22 15:00
Join us for an e-learning series exploring systemic racism, a history of colonization & the legacy of Black Nova Scotians.

Black History Learning Journey – Series 1
This year, the Nova Scotia Legislation officially designated August 1st as Emancipation Day in recognition of the history and impacts of slavery in the province. Following the Decolonization Learning Journey (hosted in partnership with Unama’ki College), the Black History Learning Journey is a further exploration of systemic racism and the shared history of colonization. As part of our continued learnings and action, the goal is to continue to increase individual and organizational participation in shared educational spaces, create meaningful dialogue, mobilize the sector, and provide tangible ways to combat anti-Black racism.

To help lead the conversation, the Community Sector Council of Nova Scotia (CSCNS) and the African Nova Scotia Decade of People of African Descent Coalition (ANS DPAD Coalition) have designed an engaging series to increase awareness about the Black Nova Scotian/ Canadian experience. The Black History Learning Journey will explore some of the key aspects of anti-Black racism, provide a history of African Nova Scotians, and discuss the impact on the Black experience in Nova Scotia today.

By examining the past to the present and challenging ourselves to have meaningful, honest conversations – we can lead a more inclusive future. For there to be transformative change, we must all listen, learn, share and act.

This June, the first series will begin our learning journey with a comprehensive history of people of African Descent in Nova Scotia. For over 400 years, African Nova Scotians have been in this province and have helped shape the cultural mosaic of Nova Scotia and Canada. This series will examine:

Slavery in the province;
The landing of the Black Loyalists and their connection with Mi’kmaw people;
The Shelburne race riot, the first recorded race riot in North America;
Black Nova Scotians contributing to and building many iconic Nova Scotian landmarks like Citadel Hill, Halifax City Hall, and the Fortress of Louisburg;
Segregation and early anti-Black policies and laws;
Broken promises, resistance, displacement and mass migration; and
The long-lasting effects of generational trauma

The series will conclude with a suite of facilitators discussing how we continue to see the impacts of systemic anti-Black racism today on health, education, housing, employment, and social services. Join us for what is sure to be an insightful series exploring the history and legacy of Black Nova Scotians, and using the past to inform the future.

Series 1 Schedule
This series is comprised of four (4) virtual sessions via Zoom Webinar scheduled for every Tuesday beginning June 1st from 1:00-3:00pm (ADT).

Session 1: Tuesday, June 1st: Decolonization: A Shared History
Session 2: Tuesday, June 8th: Enslaved Black People: First Landing
Session 3: Tuesday, June 15th: “Free” Black People
Session 4: Tuesday, June 22nd: The Legacy of Slavery

NOTE: All sessions are being recorded and the recordings will be available on our website (here) within one week of each session.
HOW TO REGISTER
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CSCNS Decolonization Learning Journey: Series 4
2021-05-04 13:00 - 2021-05-25 15:00
Join us for the fourth series in our four-part Decolonization Learning Journey with Mi’kmaw Elders and knowledge sharers.

Decolonization Learning Journey Series 4: Now What? Incorporating Reconciliation Learning into Our Work and Everyday Lives
In June of 2020 the CSCNS, in partnership with Unama’ki College at Cape Breton University launched the “The Decolonization Learning Journey” with 4 webinars. Join us for the final fourth series as we reflect on and connect our learnings.
This May, Series 4 will seek to answer the question: “Now What?” – Incorporating Reconciliation Learning into Our Work and Everyday Lives.
We will begin to reflect on our learning thus far. How are we unsettling and disrupting ourselves and our organizations? What steps can we take to create actionable change and how do we undertake the process of decolonizing – knowing that we’re not always going to get it right? In this series, we will hear from a host of Mi’kmaw Elders and knowledge sharers who will guide us in our reflection on action and relationships, as well as hear from Nova Scotia based nonprofits who have begun taking strides to make change at various levels.

Series 4 Schedule
This series is comprised of four (4) virtual sessions via Zoom scheduled for every Tuesday in May from 1:00-3:00pm (ADT).
Session 1: Tuesday, May 4th: “Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit– with Dr. Marie Battiste.
Session 2: Tuesday, May 11th: “Reconciliation Action Acceleration: From Head, Heart and Hand”– with Annie Battiste.
CANCELLED – Session 3: Tuesday, May 18th: “Knowledge Gardening / Stories from the Field: Reconciliation Action in NS Nonprofits”
Session 4: Tuesday, May 25th: “Going Forth” – with Cheryl Knockwood & Christopher Googoo

HOW TO REGISTER
To register for these sessions:

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You will receive a confirmation email with the meeting details once you complete your registration.

Visit our website to learn more about this Learning Journey, access resources , and find recordings for past webinars!
www.csc-ns.ca/decolonization-learning-journey

Building Burnout Resiliency in Ourselves and Our Teams
2021-04-29 12:00 - 2021-06-03 13:30
A free 6-Part webinar series for anyone working in the NS nonprofit sector to explore burnout in both ourselves and our organizations.

Burnout in the For-Impact sector was at pandemic levels long before COVID-19 struck, though it was often associated with empathetic and knowing glances, shared sighs, and viewed as part of the work, or even worn as a badge of honor.
We are in this sector because we care, but when our ability to give exceeds our physical, emotional, and mental bandwidth, we can experience health challenges and burnout. Burnout is commonly seen as an individual’s shortcoming that can be mitigated by simply doing more yoga, more counselling, getting outdoors more, etc. As Burnout has been widely studied over the last decade, we now know that burnout is an “Organizational problem that requires an organizational solution” (Harvard Business Review, Beyond Burnout, February 2021).
Join us starting April 29th for the Building Burnout Resiliency series, hosted by Annika Voltan of the CSCNS and facilitated by an experienced Faculty Team of fellow Executive Directors, leadership coaches, and organizational culture building professionals. Over the 6 sessions, brave and honest conversations will be facilitated, resources and tools will be shared, and offer prompts will occur between sessions. We will be exploring challenges and issues including:

How to recognize passive and active burnout in yourself and in your teams;
Burnout as reflection of your workplace culture, not as individuals;
The importance of being an empathetic team member;
Contributing to a healthy organizational culture for burnout prevention;
How to foster Burnout Resiliency in yourself, for yourself, and as an effective team member; and
Much more!

This series is open to anyone working or volunteering in the nonprofit sector in Nova Scotia. This series begins on Thursday, April 29th and will run for 6 consecutive Thursdays via Zoom from 12:00 – 1:30 pm. This series is offered free of charge, space is limited!
This series will be most beneficial if you participate in each live session; however, you can also choose to participate in individual session(s).

Schedule
Session 1: Thursday, April 29 – “Setting the Context and Listening and Learning from the Field” with Saralyn Hodgkin, Holon Leadership.
Session 2: Thursday, May 6 – “Burnout from the Perspective of Self” with Harman Singh, CEO at Breton Ability Centre and practicing Clinical Psychologist.
Session 3: Thursday, May 13 – “Burnout from an Organizational Perspective” with Ann Divine of Ashanti Leadership.
Session 4: Thursday, May 20 – “Compassion Fatigue” with Saralyn Hodgkin, Holon Leadership.
Session 5: Thursday, May 27 – “The Blurry Lines Between Self and Work” with Dorothy Spence, Imaginal Ventures.
Session 6: Thursday, June 3rd – “Integration and Reflection” with Saralyn Hodgkin, Holon Leadership.

How to Register
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Choose the ticket that matches your preferred session(s).
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You will receive a Zoom link via email when registration is completed!

Building Burnout Resiliency in Ourselves and Our Teams
2021-03-25 10:00 - 2021-04-22 12:00
A free 5-Part webinar series for Executive Directors in the NS nonprofit sector to explore burnout in both ourselves and our organizations.

Burnout in the For-Impact sector was at pandemic levels long before COVID-19 struck, though it was often associated with empathetic and knowing glances, shared sighs, and viewed as part of the work, or even worn as a badge of honor.
We are in this sector because we care, but when our ability to give exceeds our physical, emotional, and mental bandwidth, we can experience health challenges and burnout. Burnout is commonly seen as an individual’s shortcoming that can be mitigated by simply doing more yoga, more counselling, getting outdoors more, etc. As Burnout has been widely studied over the last decade, we now know that burnout is an “Organizational problem that requires an organizational solution” (Harvard Business Review, Beyond Burnout, February 2021).
Join us starting March 25th for the Building Burnout Resiliency series, hosted by Nicole Cammaert and Emma Beukema of the CSCNS and facilitated by an experienced Faculty Team of fellow Executive Directors, leadership coaches, and organizational culture building professionals. Over the 5 sessions, brave and honest conversations will be facilitated, resources and tools will be shared, and offer prompts will occur between sessions. We will be exploring challenges and issues including:

How to recognize passive and active burnout in yourself and in your teams;
Burnout as reflection of your workplace culture, not your people;
the importance of being an empathetic leader;
Building healthy organizational culture for burnout prevention;
How to foster Burnout Resiliency in yourself, for yourself, and as a leader and role model to your teams; and
Much more!

This series is open to Executive Directors in the nonprofit sector in Nova Scotia with another series of sessions for all nonprofit professionals opening in April-May. This series begins on Thursday, March 25th and will run for 5 consecutive Thursdays via Zoom from 10:00 – 11:30 am. This series is offered free of charge with a limit of 35 registrants per session.
This series will be most beneficial if you participate in each live session; however, you can also choose to participate in individual session(s).

Schedule
Session 1: Thursday, March 25 – “Setting the Context and Listening and Learning from the Field” with Saralyn Hodgkin, Holon Leadership.
Session 2: Thursday, April 1 – “Burnout from the Perspective of Self” with Harman Singh, CEO at Breton Ability Centre and practicing Clinical Psychologist.
Session 3: Thursday, April 8 – “Burnout from an Organizational Perspective” with Ann Divine of Ashanti Leadership.
Session 4: Thursday, April 15 – “The Blurry Lines Between Self and Work” with Dorothy Spence, Imaginal Ventures.
Session 5: Thursday, April 22 – “Integration and Reflection” with Saralyn Hodgkin, Holon Leadership.

How to Register
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You will receive a Zoom link via email when registration is completed!

CSCNS Capacity Building Focus Groups
2021-03-24 09:30 - 2021-03-31 11:30
To better under the sector needs, we want to hear from you to understand what the capacity needs of the sector are now and going forward.

We want to hear from you!

The last year has shown us that we do not know what we don’t know. We recognize that because of the pandemic and other complexities our scope and context have changed and we cannot make assumptions about what the sector needs are. In an effort, to #BuildBackBoldly and to build a flexible and diverse workforce we need to take a step back, reflect and find a way forward.

To better under the sector needs, CSCNS would like to hear from you to understand what the capacity needs of the sector are now and going forward. To make your voice hear you can participate via focus groups, a survey and open forums.

We want to hear from as many folks and levels within an organization so please share the invitation with others in your organization.

Schedule
Join us online at one of the following times:

Wednesday, March 24th from 9:30 to 11:00am

Thursday, March 25th from 12:00-1:30pm

Thursday, March 25th from 2:30-4:00pm
Tuesday, March 30th from 6:00-7:30pm

Wednesday, March 31st from 10:00-11:30am

How to Register
To register for the session of your choosing:

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CSCNS Capacity Building Open Forums
2021-03-04 09:30 - 2021-03-09 14:00
To better under the sector needs, we want to hear from you to understand what the capacity needs of the sector are now and going forward.

We want to hear from you!

The last year has shown us that we do not know what we don’t know. We recognize that because of the pandemic and other complexities our scope and context have changed and we cannot make assumptions about what the sector needs are. In an effort, to #BuildBackBoldly and to build a flexible and diverse workforce we need to take a step back, reflect and find a way forward.

To better under the sector needs, CSCNS would like to hear from you to understand what the capacity needs of the sector are now and going forward. To make your voice hear you can participate via focus groups, a survey and open forums.

We want to hear from as many folks and levels within an organization so please share the invitation with others in your organization.

Schedule
Join us online at one of the following times:

Tuesday, March 9th from 12:00-2:00pm

How to Register
To register for the session of your choosing:

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You will receive a Zoom link via email when registration is completed!

Interactive Careers Panel - Careers that Give Back!
2021-01-12 12:00 - 13:00
Learn about Careers in the Nonprofit Sector directly from people who have chosen this impactful career path.

You are invited to an Interactive Careers Panel – Careers that Give Back!
Learn about Careers in the Nonprofit Sector: Did you know there are 20,000 people working in over 6,000 nonprofit organizations all across Nova Scotia in a wide range of roles? Come hear directly from people who have chosen this impactful career path. They will share their stories, what they love about working in this sector and they will respond to your questions.
The sector needs talented undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines and with a wide of interests and diverse backgrounds. You have valuable skills and knowledge and you can build a career that aligns with your passion and interests.

Meet Our Panelists
Chiedza Jones – Feed Nova Scotia
Chiedza Jones has been working in the non-profit sector in Nova Scotia for almost 5 years. She currently works as Knowledge Manager and Analyst at Feed Nova Scotia, a role in which she is responsible for data management, advocacy, and raising awareness about food insecurity in the province. Chiedza is passionate about addressing complex socioeconomic challenges through sustainable development and innovation, as well as amplifying marginalized voices in the conversations and decision-making around these challenges and their solutions.

Lori Barker – Catapult Leadership Camp Society
Lori has been an active volunteer with Catapult Leadership Camp since 2010 and became the Executive Director in the fall of 2013. Her former position was as a corporate event planner and special events including the Blue Nose Marathon, Dress for Success, Phoenix Youth’s Dreamscape, Dreams Take Flight and Autism Golf Ball. Lori lives in Fall River, NS and enjoys spending family time with her 3 children.

Paul Pickering – Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS)
Paul Pickering has been delivering diversity and intercultural-related learning since 1995. He has a BA in Cultural Anthropology and an MA in Communication Studies, both from the University of Maine, and a Diploma in Lifelong Learning from London, England. He immigrated to Canada in 2011.

Robyn Lee Seale – Cape Breton Partnership
Robin Lee Seale coordinates the Cape Breton Partnership’s Connector Program, a formalized networking initiative. In her time running the Connector Program, she has met with over 150 business leaders and connected them to as many new graduates and aspiring professionals. Robyn Lee and her team create innovative networking events across the island. In her spare time, she is involved at a local theater where she performs and runs a diversity program.

Learn more about Careers in the Nonprofit Sector by visiting our website at: csc-ns.ca/careers

Mentor Pilot Project - What's Involved for Your Organization?
2020-12-16 12:00 - 13:00
Join CSCNS and BoomersPlus at 12:00pm to learn more about the Mentorship Pilot project and how you can get involved!

Mentorship Pilot Project
A 12-month initiative to support your organization and its leaders, brought to you by Boomers Plus, in cooperation with the Nova Scotia Government’s Department of Labour & Advanced Education.
This mentorship project is designed to match current and emerging leaders of organizations with a seasoned mentor drawn from an extensive BoomersPlus database. There is also a cutting-edge training framework for both mentor and participant to ensure a complete understanding of the mentoring process and a smooth start to an effective mentoring partnership.
Contact Emma Beukema (CSCNS) at ebeukema@ions.ca with any questions.

COVID-19 LIVE Q&A Sessions - Rodney Employment Law
2020-12-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2020-12-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2020-12-04 12:00 - 13:00, 2020-12-02 12:00 - 13:00, 2020-11-27 12:00 - 13:00, 2020-11-25 12:00 - 13:00, 2020-11-20 12:00 - 13:00, 2020-11-18 12:00 - 13:00 and 8 more dates
COVID-19 LIVEQ&A Sessions – Rodney Employment Law
Recurring – every Wed & Fri

CSCNS Decolonization Learning Journey: Series 3
2020-11-10 13:00 - 2020-12-08 15:00
Join us for the third series in our four-part Decolonization Learning Journey with Mi’kmaw Elders and knowledge sharers.

Decolonization Learning Journey Series 3: Mi’kmaw Governance, Education and Language
We’ve made registering for sessions easier in this round, and we do hope that you can join us for all 3 webinars in Series 3!
In June of 2020 the CSCNS, in partnership with Unama’ki College at Cape Breton University launched the “The Decolonization Learning Journey” with 4 webinars around the topic of Pre-Contact and Early History, as the first in a four-part series. In September and October, Series 2 focused on Indigenous Rights, Residential Schools, Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls, as well as Two-Eyed Seeing.
This November, Series 3 will continue with teachings on Mi’kmaw Governance, Education and Language.

Series 3 Schedule
Webinar 1: Tuesday, November 10th from 1:00 – 3:00pm

Mi’kmaw Governance– with Stephen Augustine & Andrea Paul

Webinar 2: Tuesday, November 17th from 1:00 – 3:00pm

Culturally Relevant Education– with Elizabeth Creemo & Rebecca Scirocco

Webinar 3: Tuesday, December 8th from 1:00 – 3:00pm

Language: The Heart of Culture– with Phyllis Googoo ,Michelle Marshall-Johnson, and Rosie Sylliboy

HOW TO REGISTER
To register for these webinars, select the ticket(s) for each webinar that you want to attend then select “Register”. You can register for one, some, or all by selecting the appropriate ticket(s).
NOTE: Each ticket will give the registrant a unique join link for the selected webinar(s). Registering for multiple people in one transaction is currently not possible (i.e., if you want to send more than one person from your organization they will each have to register for the appropriate webinar(s)).

Visit our website to learn more about this Learning Journey, access resources , and find recordings for past webinars!
www.csc-ns.ca/decolonization-learning-journey
