Life Skills Refresher Series

Enhance your facilitation and leadership skills through our expert Life Skills Coach program. Get ready to create impactful workshops that will leave a lasting impression on your audience!

In response to high demands, we are proud to present our new Life Skills Refresher Series. These six new interactive workshops are designed to bring Life Skills Coaching foundational principles to life, giving you a hands-on experience on facilitating, leading and creating impactful workshops.

Choose your sessions

SESSION 1
The Elusive Concept of Skills as Behaviours

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
1p.m. to 2:30p.m.
Virtual via Zoom

Review how this learning approach holds the key to embracing change and breaking obstacles into a do-able skill that can help solve daily life challenges.

SESSION 2
A Key to Unlocking Success: The Lesson Plan Template

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
1p.m. to 2:30p.m.
Virtual via Zoom

Reacquaint yourself with the Lesson Plan Template and build a new relationship with each of its component and purpose.

SESSION 3
Multiple Intelligences Require Multiple Learning Approaches

Thursday, March 20, 2025
1p.m. to 2:30p.m.
Virtual via Zoom

Revisit the different ways people enter the learning circle and how the Life Skills model can help program participants meet their learning needs.

SESSION 4
The Art of Sending and Receiving Messages

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
1p.m. to 2:30p.m.
Virtual via Zoom

Reflect on personal feedback style, your vulnerability threshold and the learning curve ahead of you as you become an expert in this communications skills area.

SESSION 5
Like It or Not, We Are Always in Groups

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
1p.m. to 2:30p.m.
Virtual via Zoom

Explore the dynamics between an individuals’ thoughts and feelings, and the groups’ behaviours and reactions.

SESSION 6
All that Begins Needs to End to Create New Beginnings

Thursday, March 27, 2025
1p.m. to 2:30p.m.
Virtual via Zoom

Review how attachments, unfinished business, bonding, triggers, or personal insights impact a program participants’ abilities to progress forward.

Take your coaching skills to the next level!

$450
for full series
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$90
per session

Who is this for?

⏺ Women, men and gender diverse individuals.

⏺ Professionals, students, consultants, and/or trainers.

⏺ Individuals that have Life Skills Phase 1 and Phase 2 Certification or equivalent.

Invest in yourself today!

Earn Certificates of Completion to showcase your new skills and expertise upon completion of each workshop.

Interested? Apply today!
Registration closes March 11, 2025 and spaces are filling up fast.

For more information and/or to register, please contact 416.269.0091 x231 or lifeskills@ywcatoronto.org

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Meet the Instructor

Dolores Montavez Ruz is an experienced professional in human development, having led national, provincial, and municipal training projects. She served as Expert Life Skills Coach and editor for YWCA Toronto’s Discovering Life Skills publications and now works as a training consultant. With a Bachelor of Arts from York University and post-graduate certificates in Adult Education, Immigration and Refugee Studies, and Anti-Racist Research, she is trained in life coaching and licensed to administer various vocational assessments. Her work is centered on learning, social inclusion, and community service.