Big Waves Learning
Build skills and imagination to think and act systemically toward your vision for the future.
Brook is an MA in adult education with extensive experience in classroom, workshop, and cohort based education. Joanne has guided learning in multiple environments, including post-secondary classroom and multi-week online professional cohorts. All Big Waves’ offerings are designed from educational better practices, in a range of formats from downloadable books to self-paced courses to public and private cohort training. Find the learning support you've been thinking of, in the options below, or contact us to design custom for your needs.
Generative Conflict: Now In Multiple Formats!
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Building Emotional Agility
CourseTangible strategies that leaders can use to expand their capacity to respond to interpersonal stress with dignity, curiosity, and respect.
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Building Healthy Conflict Cultures
CourseSchedule this training to understand the phases of conflict, and how to intervene. Understand some of the costs of letting conflict escalate and the benefits of early intervention.
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Coaching for Delegation and Development
CourseLearn how to effectively coach members of your team to further develop their skills and interests, and expand the potential of what your team can achieve together.
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Communicating in Conflict
CoursePractice the communication skills that are most important to come to the other side of a conflict.
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CoResolve: Introduction to Deep Democracy
CourseThis course is the internationally recognized Level One training in the Lewis Method of Deep Democracy, developed in post-apartheid South Africa and practiced in over 20 countries around the world.
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Equity-focused Psychological Safety
CourseTo innovate and adapt to complex situations, we have to be willing to experiment and fail. This requires that a team feels safe enough to take interpersonal risks. Learn basic principles for supporting equity-focused psychological safety on your team
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Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback
CourseGiving feedback is one of the most important elements of collaboration on a team. Learn a simple framework for giving clear and kind feedback that invites collaborative solutions and encourages people to learn and develop in their work.
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Introduction to Systems Change for Nonprofits
CourseThis training helps you map the systems your work connects with, identify the parts that you can influence, and see how to collaborate with others who can impact other parts, so that you can effect larger scale change.
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Negotiating with Key Partners
CourseThis training focuses on negotiation skills for meetings with individual partners such as government, funders, and other key contributors.
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Preparing for Courageous Conversations
CourseIs there a difficult or uncomfortable conversation you wish you didn’t have to have? You have the ability to create a better outcome, and this training helps you prepare for that.
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Reimagining Power: Creating the Workplaces We Want
CourseIn this training, we explore a framework for integrating more nurturing and restorative ways of addressing power in our everyday lives and workplaces. The Reimagining Power Framework was created by Brook Thorndycraft and Louise Pitre over many years.
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Reimagining Power: Gender, Leadership and Change
CourseA six-session embodied learning journey for people in leadership who identify as women, transgender or non-binary to explore their relationships to power.
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Understanding Power: Leadership and Beyond
CourseThis webinar is for leaders, both established and emerging, who want to understand the complexities of power, and explore strategies to use their power for positive change.
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Zoom Out! Conflict Clarity on Five Levels
CourseLearn how to use Big Waves’ Conflict Aperture tool to get the full picture of a workplace conflict, and an understanding of intervention tools that match the diagnosis. Developed over 10 years supporting organizations with workplace conflict.