9:00am to 4:00pm (registration opens at 8:30am)
Richelieu Vanier Community Centre
Accueil Hall, 300 Des Pères-Blancs Avenue

This workshop will provide participants with simple, practical tools and approaches to building trust. Participants will be able to bring these back into their collaborative efforts and renew engagement and shared ownership. 

In August 2017, the Tamarack Institute’s Liz Weaver published a paper called Turf, Trust, Co-Creation and Collective Impact.  This ground-breaking paper explores the interconnected relationship between the act of building trust and collaborative success and impact. 

"Authentic community change moves at the speed of trust. And yet, we spend so little time and focus on intentionally building trust amongst partners."

Register for Turf, Trust and Collaboration: Practical Tools for Building Trust

Increasingly, communities are using collaboration to tackle some of their most complex issues. We often dive into collaboration without truly understanding or embracing the human side of this work. We focus more on the output or outcome rather than the process which is to the detriment of all of us. In managing complexity, we know that we must bring different voices and experiences to the table. How can we do this effectively when we don’t build practices which engage others and build trust?

This interactive workshop focuses on the core leadership competency of trust building.  Collaborative success requires the engagement and commitment of partners to the common cause.  Lack of trust can take collaborative efforts off track.  But little attention is payed to actions which build trust, create connections and deal with mistrust.  Participants in the workshop will walk away with ideas, tools and approaches to effectively engage diverse community partners and intentionally build trusting relationships and collaborative impact.  Come prepared to share your experiences and insights in how to build trust.

Learn more about Turf, Trust and Collaboration

The First Nations Economic Advancement Conference's (FNEAC) focus is to help grow First Nation economies across Ontario and attract business partners, investment opportunities and development projects that will make First Nation communities more competitive, create jobs, expand markets, retain skilled workers and create more innovate First Nation communities through collaboration.

Register for the First Nations Economic Advancement Conference

The Ontario First Nations Economic Developers Association (OFNEDA) is the best positioned organisation to deliver a First Nations economic conference because OFNEDA's mandate is strictly focused on economic development for First Nation communities across Ontario with an emphasis on bridging the gap between corporate institutions and First Nation decision makers.  OFNEDA's mission is to help stimulate economic growth for Ontario’s First Nations. Our goal is to generate and support economic and business development activities in order to formulate policies and initiatives aimed at tackling the economic challenges facing our communities.​​

9:30am to 12:30pm Eastern Time

You’re invited to Employment Social Enterprise 201, a workshop that will provide you with an opportunity to explore your readiness to launch an employment social enterprise, and provide you with an opportunity to begin to generate employment social enterprise business ideas. 

Employment social enterprises are innovative businesses that create training and employment opportunities for people facing barriers to employment, such as people with disabilities, newcomers, and people with mental illness. 

The time is right for employment social enterprise development. Globally, and across Canada, employment social enterprises (ESEs) have demonstrated strong outcomes for their ‘target population’ employees. Based on this success, and on persistent employment barriers for many people in Toronto, York and Peel, there is demand for additional jobs within ESEs. Additionally, based on an increased ‘social purchasing’ behavior, there is increasing demand for the products and services created by ESEs. 

Register for Employment Social Enterprise 201

The workshop will feature: 

• an activity to explore your entrepreneurial readiness / organizational readiness for employment social enterprise development
• an activity to support you in developing employment social enterprise business ideas
• an activity to enable you to filter business ideas, identifying your highest probability business idea
• a presentation from an existing employment social enterprise manager
• a Q&A session with a representative of the Toronto Enterprise Fund, Canada’s leading supporter of employment social enterprises.

Note: This workshop is suitable for individuals who have attended Employment Social Enterprise 101. We strongly recommend that you attend ESE 101 prior to attending this workshop.

Refreshments and a light snack will be provided. If you have any accessibility needs, or any questions about this event, please contact Bronwyn Oatley, Manager, Toronto Enterprise Fund at boatley at uwgt.org