Training & Development Experts
Our in-person and virtual facilitation options bring quality team building, mental health education, professional development opportunities, and first aid training to your site or screen!
We tailor comprehensive, solution-focused programs and workshops, equipping participants with valuable skills that help them thrive in their workplaces, communities, and families.
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Facilitation Training & Team Building Programs
Build connections through a shared, memorable experience and strengthen the skills needed to thrive together in strong teams and healthy communities!
Let us know – What outcomes do you want to see? – and we will tailor a play-based program to make that happen! Team building sessions create powerful outcomes and the following are just a few of the possibilities.
- Employment program participants build better connections with each other and increase their chances of successful, long-term work placements when they strengthen their team and community skills with us early in their program
- Give your students a boost, building resilience and strengthening their leadership skills or helping them see the strengths they didn’t know they had while feeling confident about improving in their areas for growth
- Make your event memorable with an icebreaker session or professional development that helps your staff provide team-building as a value-add service to your clients
Mental Health Workshops
Reduce fears around mental health issues and mental illness and equip your team to feel confident there is a lot they can do to support the well-being of themselves and others! Your team will learn critical knowledge and skills for prevention, navigation, and recovery and with the importance of community in mind. Learn how to build life-giving support networks, how to communicate clearly with healthcare providers, and how to navigate crisis as a team.
You can request a workshop specifically designed to address your group’s unique needs or ask about our Increasing Our Personal Resources mental health workshop designed to help participants begin experiencing immediate relief.
COMING SOON – Online Mental Health PowerUP
Commit to improving your mental well-being and expand your collection of tools for helping yourself and others! These 30-minute, weekly sessions are designed to help provide both immediate and cumulative empowerment and relief.
Perfect for those waiting for access to care, those receiving care who want to enhance their progress, and lifelong learners wanting to become mental health champions.
Therapeutic First Aid Training
Many people have experienced trauma that makes attending first aid courses for the general public overwhelming when course content triggers stress responses that undermine learning and success.
We provide Standard First Aid including CPR Level C and AED Training that is facilitated with mental health and the impacts of trauma in mind. These are therapeutic opportunities for participants to learn in a supportive environment with a skilled instructor. We also provide therapeutic training for participants overcoming a history of violence, learning how to help rather than hurt.
If you have a member of your team who has experienced trauma, 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.
Homeschooling Parents
Professional Development & Experiential Learning Resources
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. We’ve got you covered with budget-friendly and family-friendly learning where your children are welcome!
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Building strong teams and healthy communities!
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 across North America and beyond and look forward to hearing from you!
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)
Take the Resilient Nonprofits online course, a masterclass for exponentially increasing and stabilizing resources to achieve growth and permanently remove money fears from the table.
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)
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.