Online Workshops
Experience dynamic, user-friendly, and highly efficient programs delivered through our cutting-edge online learning platform. Our engaging courses are designed to captivate and empower, providing you with the tools and knowledge you need to succeed.
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Online Workshops
Our workshops delivered in on place, our online learning platform B968 Learning and are comprised of self-study, self-paced modules with uniquely designed content to keep participants engaged from start to completion. Our materials and methods are user friendly and speak in easy to understand terms that are cognizant of diverse learning capabilities, styles and skill levels.
Self-study learning is reinforced through high touch points such as games, quizzes and challenges, combined with access to a community of learners connecting to grow and learn together.
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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In this workshop, we provide all the guidance you need to create a standout resume that highlights your unique strengths and achievements.
The process of building a resume is a crucial life skill. It allows you to reflect on your accomplishments, identify your key strengths, and effectively communicate your qualifications—skills that are essential for both personal and career growth.
This workshop will teach you how to craft a compelling resume, filling each section with relevant, impactful information. It also forms the foundation for creating an engaging cover letter and submitting strong online applications that grab attention. Ready to take your career to the next level? Let’s get started!
Upon completion of the workshop, participants can expect to achieve the following outcomes:
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- Professional Draft Resume: Leave the workshop with a well-formatted resume ready to showcase your skills and experience.
- Clarity in Resume Structure: Gain confidence in organizing your resume, knowing exactly what sections to include and how to fill them.
- Leverage Volunteer Experience: Learn how to turn volunteer work into a powerful asset on your resume, even without formal job experience.
- Confidently Build a Resume with Little Experience: Discover how to create a strong, impactful resume, regardless of your work history.
- Showcase Your Achievements: Understand how to present your accomplishments in a way that grabs the attention of employers.
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Learn to create stand-out resumes that get noticed.
In this hands-on workshop, we’ll take your basic resume and professionally edit it to ensure it stands out to employers. You’ll also learn how to craft compelling cover letters tailored to specific job opportunities. Whether you’re starting from scratch or seeking to polish existing documents, this course provides personalized guidance to help you create a powerful, professional resume and cover letter that highlights your skills and experience.
Participants of this course will leave with:
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- Polished, Professional Resume: Participants will walk away with a professionally edited and refined resume that grabs the attention of employers and highlights their unique strengths.
- Tailored, Compelling Cover Letters: Attendees will learn how to craft personalized cover letters that resonate with specific job opportunities, making them stand out from the competition.
- Increased Confidence in Job Applications: By mastering resume and cover letter writing, participants will feel more confident and prepared to submit job applications, knowing their documents present them in the best light.
- Enhanced Ability to Showcase Skills and Experience: Participants will gain the skills to clearly and effectively communicate their qualifications, making their experience and accomplishments shine.
- Ready-to-Use, Professional Documents: By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with a complete, job-ready resume and cover letter that can be used immediately for applications.
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Be prepared for your next interview.
The Professional Presentation & Interview Preparation program is designed to boost your confidence as you prepare for and attend job interviews, helping you seamlessly transition into new employment. This workshop covers essential interview preparation topics, including how to present yourself, what to wear, and what to bring, ensuring you showcase the best version of yourself. We also dive into interview etiquette and provide hands-on practice sessions, allowing you to tackle those first-time interview nerves and feel fully prepared to succeed in real-world interviews.
Upon completion of the workshop, participants can expect to achieve the following outcomes:
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- Increased Confidence: Participants will feel more self-assured in their ability to present themselves professionally during interviews, with a clear understanding of how to communicate effectively and make a positive impression.
- Mastery of Interview Etiquette: Participants will gain a solid grasp of interview etiquette, including how to dress, what to bring, and how to behave, ensuring they are fully prepared for any interview setting.
- Practical Interview Skills: Through mock interviews and hands-on practice, participants will overcome initial nerves, develop polished responses, and refine their ability to handle various interview scenarios with ease.
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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
Employment Skills Workshops
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The goal of the Introduction to Workplace Policies workshop is to provide an introduction to common workplace policies relevant to almost every type of employment. Having this knowledge will help participants to better prepare for employment opportunities and know what to expect in entry level positions.
Recommended Pairing: Communication, Professionalism and Time Management + Dressed for Success + Customer Service
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This workshop will enable participants to demonstrate the best form in workplace etiquette, the dos and don’ts of the workplace, professionalism, effective communication tools for the workplace and time management skills. We discuss professional communication with coworkers and management, email and phone etiquette, and how to display professionalism in relation to staying focused, planning for punctuality and creating effective to do lists.
Recommended Pairing: Introduction to Workplace Policies + Customer Service
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This great stand alone workshop builds off of the introductory customer service skills learned in Superhost Training. Participants will learn to differentiate between different types of customers, ways to manage challenging customer service interactions and how body language can impact customer confidence. This workshop develops proactive team members that can confidently support your customer relations, create customer loyalty and help participants confidently go that extra mile when serving your customers.
Recommended Pairing: Communication, Professionalism and Time Management + Introduction to Workplace Policies + Superhost
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The Conflict Resolution & Teamwork workshop will enable participants to recognize conflict situations and equip them with the skills to resolve them. Participants will learn to tackle problem solving in their work and personal lives, common approaches to conflict and strategies for effective conflict resolution. The workshop also provides participants with tools for managing personal emotions, techniques for dealing with stress from conflict, and how a team forms and functions productively.
Recommended Pairing: Leading from Within + Critical and Creative Thinking
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The Creative Thinking Module will help participants access their creative instincts, learn how to solve problems and address opportunities with creativity. We explore the benefits of creative thinking and how using it can positively impact participant’s careers and everyday life. The Critical Thinking Module introduces participants to thinking critically, and how imperative these skills are in sifting through potential scams and misinformation in the news. This workshop encourages participants to slow down and ask good questions in order to make better and more informed decisions.
Recommended Pairing: Leading from Within + Conflict Resolution & Teamwork + Skills for Emerging Leaders
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The Skills for Emerging Leaders workshop will provide participants with knowledge of basic leadership skills and how to identify strong leadership traits within themselves. They will be empowered to move forward into leadership roles and experiences that will encourage personal, team and professional growth. We will begin to explore topics such as how to motivate employees, how to give feedback and how to best communicate with employees effectively.
Recommended Pairing: Leading from Within + Creative and Critical Thinking + Discovering Your Leadership Style + Leadership Development Training Program
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This workshop provides an introduction to workplace safety by first learning about the components of an Occupational Health and Safety program and following up with an overview of general safety principles and guidelines for worker safety. Participants will learn about the structure of an OH&S program, new worker orientations, safety meetings, hazard identification, safe work procedures, identifying near misses vs incidents and their respective reporting requirements.
Recommended Pairing: Workplace Hazardous Information System (WHMIS) + Introduction to Workplace Policies
Leadership Skills Workshops
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The Discovering Your Leadership Style Workshop provides participants the opportunity to understand the different types of leaders and the skills of great leaders. Using the Clifton Strengths Assessment, participants gain insight into their unique strengths, areas for improvement, how to use these strengths in the workplace and how the different strengths styles can better work together. We also explore how identifying your team’s strengths can help you as a leader and your team as a whole.
Recommended Pairing: Emotional Intelligence + Understanding Motivation + Communication for Leaders
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Emotional Intelligence is an essential asset in social, workplace and personal relationships. In the Emotional Intelligence workshop, we help participants expand their knowledge of Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Social Skills, Empathy and Motivation. We explore different means of communication and how to best utilize each method to create positive social interactions needed in relationship management. We also discuss the benefits of increasing our Emotional Intelligence and how using empathy in leadership can help create an optimal atmosphere for success.
Recommended Pairing: Discovering Your Leadership Style + Communication for Leaders + Understanding Motivation + Creative & Critical Thinking
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In our Communication for Leaders Workshop, participants learn communication strategies and techniques to ensure clarity when sending and receiving information. Using a communication loop, participants will learn what a perfect loop looks like and how to navigate noise to ensure effective communication with a variety of audiences.
Participants are then guided through a self-assessment to identify their own communication style and apply that insight using role plays and activities to better understand how each of the different communication styles can best work together to send and receive information.
Recommended Pairing: Discovering Your Leadership Style + Emotional Intelligence + Leading Change
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Motivation plays a huge role in the success of any organization. We examine how employees are motivated, discuss different theories and the role of personalities in motivation. Using the S.M.A.R.T technique, we help students learn how they can set S.M.A.R.T goals to ensure the outcomes they wish to achieve are broken down and attainable. Challenges discussed in this workshop include: dealing with low morale and how leaders can stay motivated while motivating their team.
Recommended Pairing: Discovering Your Leadership Style + Communication for Leaders + Emotional Intelligence
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This workshop dives into how to build accountability across all team members in the workplace. Participants will learn habits that we find in accountable people and how to incorporate these habits into their own lives. We also explore the impact time management has on being accountable and where students can improve their time management skills. The workshop will also discuss how accountability can translate into improved performance and reoccurring success – which in turn lead to a better workplace environment and culture.
Recommended Pairing: Understanding Motivation + Discovering Your Leadership Style + Communication for Leaders + Emotional Intelligence
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The goal of the Feedback in the Workplace Workshop is to enable students to successfully give both positive and negative feedback. We discuss how to give constructive criticism and foster a positive work environment while doing so. We discuss the importance of active listening, when, where and how we give feedback and how to read body language in gaging how the feedback is being received. We end the Workshop on how to effectively receive feedback to promote a cohesive work environment.
Recommended Pairing: Discovering Your Leadership Style + Communication for Leaders + Accountability in the Workplace
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In the Leadership Strategies and Coaching Workshop we look at what makes good and bad bosses, the differences between coaching and mentoring and how participants can bring each method into their workplace. Describing the competencies found in great leaders, such as trust and a growth mindset, as well as introducing tools -like the GROW method and mind-mapping- participants learn how they can employ leadership strategies for a successful coaching process.
Recommended Pairing: Emotional Intelligence + Communication for Leaders + Conflict Resolution + Leading Change
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Without a doubt, leaders will encounter conflict. Within this workshop, we will dive into the four main types of conflict, as well as discovering the most common conflict styles. Participants will be guided through the steps to resolving conflict, breaking them down and introducing tools to help discover the root cause of the conflict while working towards an effective resolution by maintaining personal wellness, finding common ground, generating options and creating a solid plan with action steps.
Recommended Pairing: Emotional Intelligence + Communication for Leaders + Leadership Strategies and Coaching + Leading Change + Creative and Critical Thinking

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.


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Bungalow 968 offers a range of long form and short form programs and workshops designed to empower Indigenous Communities across Canada.