Essential Skills Training
Confidently master essential life skills that promote healthy, positive personal development. Gain the tools to effectively tackle challenges, build lasting self-esteem, and strengthen self-reliance. Empower yourself to thrive in all areas of life with skills that boost confidence and resilience.
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Engaging Programs
Our workshops are crafted to keep participants fully engaged from start to finish, using user-friendly materials and methods that cater to diverse learning styles and skill levels. We simplify complex concepts with clear, accessible language, ensuring everyone can follow along. Learning is reinforced through interactive touchpoints like games, quizzes, and challenges, making the experience both fun and effective. Whether you’re a beginner or advanced, our workshops are designed to boost retention and success for all participants.
Essential Skills Workshops
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Our flagship workshop, Leading From Within is for participants to develop skills in emotional intelligence, confidence, and personal leadership. We deliver simple tools and strategies to help increase confidence, help discover personal values and personality types. We discover what motivates participants, what their core values are and how to turn negative thoughts around. Participants reflect on how to create a morning routine and incorporate mindfulness techniques to ground and empower themselves in their everyday life. This workshop is a great starting place and forms the foundation for our additional workshops.
Recommended pairing: Visioning and Goal Setting
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The Visioning & Goal Setting workshop provides participants with tools and activities to help create a vision for their future, with goals and a timeline to support making it happen. We help identify their personality types, discuss participants’ life objectives and how to stay on track by breaking down goals into smaller steps using the S.M.A.R.T technique. Participants learn about the importance of habits and mindfulness and will leave the workshop with a three-year plan on how to execute goals and a step-by-step guide created to get them there.
Recommended Pairing: Leading from Within
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The Resume Review and Interview Skills workshop will teach about different kinds of resumes and explore the tools participants can use to represent themselves advantageously during their future job searches and interviews. Participants will learn how to build a resume and fill each section with relevant and important information. We will also discuss how to create cover letters that stand out and more importantly, give you a better chance of landing the interview you want. We will discuss how to apply to jobs, how to prepare for an interview and interview etiquette.
Recommended Pairing: Dressed for Success and Math Skills for Life
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The Dressed for Success workshop aims to help participants gain an understanding of basic human needs, confidence, personal presentation and personal hygiene. We cover basic hygiene and organizational skills and how they relate to preparing for an interview, covering topics such as: what to bring, what to wear and how to present yourself so you can present the most confident you. We will also discuss interview etiquette, and perform mock interviews to help participants prepare and shake off any nerves.
Recommended Pairing: Resume Review and Interview Skills + Communication, Professionalism and Time Management
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The Basic Nutrition & Meal Planning workshop will teach participants about the basic nutritional requirements to aid in maintaining a healthy body and mind. Working with Canada’s Food Guide and Registered Holistic Nutritionist Melanie Ackerly, we discuss what makes up a healthy diet. We also discuss various dietary needs such as personal food choices like vegan and vegetarian diets, and more specific dietary requirements regarding more serious diseases such as celiac disease and diabetes. Participants will also create a personalized weekly meal plan emphasizing choices for healthy living.
Recommended Pairing: Math Skills for Life + Leading from Within
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Created by SFU Math Doctoral Candidate, Kailyn Pritchard, this workshop breaks down everyday math and helps participants with basic math skills including computation of whole numbers and decimals as well as understanding percentages. The goal is to aid students to better understand basic math they can use to create a personal budget, explore various expenses and how to balance them in relation to their income.
Participants learn about income tax, interest rates and how to calculate their income on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis. We help participants set and breakdown their personal budget, including debt management, and how to save for their short and long term financial goals.
Recommended Pairing: Nutrition and Special Diets + Leading from Within
A team with experience
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Trinidad Puga Figueroa
Program Team Member
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Angela Bliss
Program Team Member
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Aislinn Mackay
Facilitator
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Jessika Houston
Facilitator
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Karin Burns
Facilitator
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trinidad puga figueroa
Program Team Member
Trinidad was born and raised in southern Chile and came to Canada in 2021. She has a strong interest in community development, focusing on local talents and resources to create solutions that are relevant to each area. She has worked with communities to identify their goals and design development paths that reflect their unique culture and values. As a Program's Team Member at Bungalow, she focuses on creating high-quality materials that reach those seeking growth and learning opportunities. In addition to her work, she enjoys outdoor activities, spending time with family and friends, and has a passion for artisan work and cooking. Trinidad holds a degree in Sociology from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. -
angela bliss
Program Team Member
From a small-town in Ontario, Angela has a background in Human Resources management and a love for design and photography. In her role as Program Team Member at Bungalow 968, she blends her passion with her professional experience, working closely with people and celebrating their successes through the programs we offer. She supports participants through their learning journey, provides detailed program reporting for clients and takes care of many of Bungalow's social and email campaigns.
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aislinn mackay
Facilitator
Aislinn is an educational facilitator and developer with an interest in math and engineering. She has worked as a study session facilitator, designing and implementing engaging workshops and supplemental learning support to students with diverse learning needs. She approaches design and facilitation using applied principles of universal instructional design, continual improvement and scaffolding to enable a successful learning environment. She has developed content for STEM programs at the elementary school level, as well as working with Indigenous outreach organizations aimed at increasing Indigenous youth participation in STEM fields. Aislinn holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Carleton University.
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jessika houston
Facilitator
Over the past 20 years, Jessika has worked in various management capacities in both the Corporate and Non-Profit Sectors. She has founded two of her own businesses, as well as co-creating several federally funded, community-based life skills programs. In 2016, Jessika earned her Life Coaching Certification from Integrative Wellness Academy.
Currently, Jessika is the Founder and Lead Life Coach of Glitter N’ Grace Life Coaching, is the Program Manager for Surrey SHARES - a storytelling and coaching program for Seniors, is a contracted Facilitator for Bungalow968 Employment and Life Skills training programs and is a member of the Community Mental Health Committee as an Advocate and Presenter and recently became a Published Author.
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karin burns
Facilitator
Karin skilled educator with over 20 years experience learning and growing as a primary grades teacher, high school teacher, outdoor educator, instructor, coach and mentor. She is a recently certified instructional designer with a passion for curriculum design and development with Indigenous communities. Karin has also recently trained in Coaching Leadership. Karin has taught a wide range of participants from diverse cultural backgrounds, neurodivergent learning styles and ranging in age from young to old. She has co-developed education curriculum with First Nations groups, championed STEM education for girls and women, taught and developed curriculum for Waldorf Schools and worked as an outdoor educator in Ontario and BC. As a Squamish resident, Karin greatly values our growing and vibrant community, as well as acknowledges the ancestral lands we work and play upon.
Karin holds a Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design from Royal Roads University, and Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Physical and Health Education from Queen’s University Canada.
More Programs
Bungalow 968 offers a range of long form and short form programs and workshops designed to empower Indigenous Communities across Canada.