Building Strong Teams and Healthy Communities
It all adds up. Keep going, keep growing!
What Outcome Do You Want?
Our expert-led personal and professional development workshops make complex ideas simple and transform struggles into strength! Tell us what challenge you are navigating or what outcome you would like to experience, and we’ll tell you how we can help.
We provide on-site tailored training solutions that are interactive and engaging, equipping participants to increase their knowledge, skills, confidence, and capacity in the ways you have identified matter most.
We’re Your Solution For
Team Building and Skill Power-Ups
Build connection while strengthening team, community, and leadership skills through a shared, memorable, play-based experience and/or dig into targeted power-up workshop topics to build specific knowledge and skills that rocket your team toward the success you’re looking for.
Let us know – What outcomes do you want to see? – and we will tailor an interactive and engaging program to make that happen!
QUICK FACTS:
- All our programs are tailored to address your specific needs
- We provide customized handouts and professional development records
- Our office remains an open and ongoing source of personalized support after training
- Reduced rates for non-profits. Contact for a full quote.
Mental Health Education
We help teams move from burnout to resilience! We conducted research to identify the top issues currently undermining people’s sense of well-being so we could deliver mental health workshops that combine timeless principles with modern solutions (and we’re getting great results)! Transform your team from feeling overwhelmed, afraid, and worn down to energized, confident, and empowered with personalized action steps that result in immediate improvement to wellbeing.
Conflict Resolution
We show participants how to de-escalate tensions, simplify complex situations to shorten the path to resolution, end gossip, and protect health and well-being along the way. Participants leave with simple and powerful tools that are easy to remember and apply under pressure so they can experience the best outcomes.
First Aid Training
We specialize in providing Standard First Aid with CPR Level C and AED certification, facilitated with mental health and the impacts of trauma in mind.
Has someone on your team had an experience that could make discussing or responding to first aid emergencies triggering? When they attend courses for the general public, feeling panicked can shut down learning and undermine their success. Our courses act as therapeutic opportunities for participants who have experienced distressing events to learn with their team in a supportive teaching environment while gaining the calm confidence to perform first aid.
Bringing us in to do your first aid training helps to ensure everyone has a good experience. As Training Partners with the Canadian Red Cross, the certificates your participants receive are nationally recognized. Tailored workshops to address specific topics are available upon request.
QUICK FACTS:
- Regulated first aid training for school and the workplace
- In-person and blended (knowledge online, skills in-person) options are available – for greatest success and confidence using the skills in real life be sure to book full in-person
- Ratio of 18:1 participants per Instructor, larger groups welcome, correct number of Instructors will be provided. No minimum number of participants
- Nationally recognized certificate issued by the Canadian Red Cross (we’re a Training Partner!).
- Our office remains an open and ongoing source of personalized support after training.
Homeschooling Resources
Parent Power-Ups & Experiential Learning Adventures
We’ve had the privilege of providing professional development workshops for thousands of formal educators across North America and are now offering growth opportunities for homeschooling educators too!
When you’ve stepped into the role of Teacher because homeschooling was the right fit for your family, it’s important to model lifelong learning yourself and to grow in your knowledge and skills as an educator.
Shop printable and ebook resources created by our expert Experiential Educator, Lindsay Walton, on Etsy at ExpertialLearning.etsy.com
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Lindsay Walton
Program Director and Founder of Open Door Development
Hello! I’ve been designing and delivering experiential education programs for over 20 years, including mental health workshops for at-risk populations, train-the-trainer courses for elite-level law enforcement, outdoor adventure programs for students struggling in traditional classrooms, first aid training for participants recovering from trauma, and more! I’m passionate about ensuring training meets the unique needs of participants and the teams they belong to!
What kind of training experience are you looking for and what are you hoping to achieve? Email me with your training hopes and goals at lindsay@opendoordevelopment.ca.
Author Of:
Why Asking Donors For Money Causes Donors To Give Less: A Team Builder’s Guide To Why Treating Your Donors Like A Community Rather Than As Individuals MATTERS (Lulu Press)
The Diagram Debrief: A Powerful Team Building Tool Based on Jungian Play Therapy. Foreword by Jim Cain. (Lulu Press)
Featured In:
Extraordinary Facilitation: Insights From Half a Century of Working and Playing With Groups (Jim Cain, Healthy Learning)
The Learning Curve: Navigating the Transition From Facilitating In The Real World to Facilitating in a Virtual One (Jim Cain, Healthy Learning)
Virtual Facilitation: A Collection of Lessons Learned to Virtually Create Connections and Magic (John Berkley & Jeff Goldberg, Healthy Learning)
We Are Proud To Have Served
AND MANY MORE!
What If Your Ramped Up Fundraising Campaign Is Causing Donors To Give Less?
Lindsay Walton here. As a team building professional who has worked with hundreds of non-profit organizations, I can tell you that treating your donors like a community rather than as individuals MATTERS! Traditional fundraising consistently attempts to leverage donor pscyhology to get them to say yes, but donors are humans and community beings which means you need to understand the sociology at work!
Open Door Development’s Resource Campaigning Game is a dynamic, three-hour experiential session designed to help boards and leadership teams challenge traditional fundraising assumptions and discover a more powerful way to engage people in advancing the mission. Rather than simply hearing about a new philosophy, participants experience the difference for themselves, and leave with a shared understanding of why moving from Fundraising to Resource Campaigning can transform the way your organization builds support and receives more than it ever thought possible.
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Provide encouragement. Give direction. Address the issue, not the person. Commit to your team and the challenge. Recognize everyone has strengths to leverage and areas for growth to invest in.
Do this and you will Succeed.