Interactive, empathy-based and trauma-informed workshops for Youth & Youth Serving Adults.
Empathy Based Education.
Canvas programs are delivered with compassion and understanding to meet our learners where they are.
Facilitators with Authenticity.
Our Canvas trained facilitators bring programs to life with their authentic and insightful experiences.
Create Lasting Impacts.
We help foster skills of compassion and understanding while starting conversations of inclusivity and consent in clasrooms.
2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusion Programs
Our SpeakOUT program series focuses on the importance of 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion in schools.
At Canvas Programs we are on a mission to create environments where students of all identities are able to express themselves freely while feeling support from their peers.
By working together, we can build foundations inclusivity and understanding in our schools.
Teacher Workshops
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Participants build a comprehensive understanding regarding diversity in sexual orientations, gender identities, practical tools for pronoun use and support strategies. Staff receive tangible steps to create and maintain safer, inclusive spaces for students. Understand diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, pronouns use, and robust skills to create safer, supportive spaces for all youth.
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Through storytelling from members of the queer community, gain a sense of empathy and understanding for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and how to be an ally.
Student Workshops
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Students gain a better understanding of gender and sexual identities, pronouns, how to challenge queer-phobic bullying, and the importance of acceptance and compassion.
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Students acquire a greater understanding of privilege, how intersectional identities including race, culture and religion intersect with queer identity, and the importance of allyship. We recommend a 2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusion workshop first.
(75 min)
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We also offer panels which can be a good option for some schools. Through personal storytelling, Canvas staff provide learners with empathy for and knowledge of sexual and gender diversity, trans identity and inclusive future. Though we can offer more attendance at one time for these panels, we cannot always accommodate interactivity as well as our regular programs above.
Summer Camp Workshops
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Our camp consulting services are available before and throughout the summer. We consult
on topics including implementing 2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusion, critical incident consulting following instances of queerphobia, and trauma informed support at camp.
What are our participants saying?
“…it made me realize my experiences and feelings are normal.”
— Student Participant
“The facilitators were engaging, friendly, and great at explaining everything!”
— Teacher Participant
Consent Programs
Our Consent Kit program-series focuses on the fundamentals of healthy consent practices and the societal impact consent culture has on young people.
At Canvas Programs we are on a mission to create spaces where consent is normalized, while learning better skills to support those impacted by sexual violence.
By working together, consent can be at the forefront of our classrooms, and youth can feel supported in knowing healthy communication skills.
Teacher Workshops
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Participants learn best practices to foster, model and maintain a culture of consent amongst youth, and steps to support youth survivors. Learn best practices to foster, promote, and maintain a culture of consent amongst their students. Staff are given clear, tangible skills to support youth survivors of sexual violence.
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Participants identify existing barriers and responses to create safer, consensual environments for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks through collaborative and actionable goal-setting.
Student Workshops
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Students attain a foundational understanding of consent, including barriers, such as power dynamics, alcohol/drugs and peer pressure. This is our most foundational workshop for consent and is essential before booking other workshops in this stream.
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Students learn how emotions impact our state of mind, decision making skills and interactions with others. This workshop takes what is learned in interpersonal consent and connects it with realistic scenarios and tangible skills for them to take away.
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Students are taught the BRAVER framework, which provides clear steps to support peers following sexual assault or harassment. This is our most mature workshop in this stream and we generally recommend it for older grades (usually grades 11 & 12 students).
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Summer Camp Workshops
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Survivor-Centred Leadership training is an interactive program preparing camp leaders to be survivor-centred and trauma-informed in their approach to sexual violence in their camp community. The session will include an in-depth overview on the impacts of trauma on behaviour and memory, harm reduction approaches to investigations, and considerations when determining ‘credibility’.
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This workshop explores the common barriers to consent that arise at camp. Staff are given steps to enshrine consent in all our relationships, as well as a step-by-step framework to support survivors of sexual violence.
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Our camp consulting services are available before and throughout the summer. We consult
on topics including proactive guidance on sexual assault and intervention, critical incident consulting following instances of sexual violence, and trauma informed support at camp.
“the workshop allowed for deeper conversations about consent, safety and identity to take place in the class once it was finished”
— Student Participant