Course Catalogue

Bringing the Indoors Out: Tips for Successfully Taking your Indoor Group Fitness Class Outside – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Presented by Group Fitness SFL Tamara Grand
Description: In this workshop we’ll review the elements of a successful group fitness class, discuss the challenges of retaining these elements in an outdoor setting, (and in keeping with Covid-19 public health protocols) suggest tips for tackling those challenges and provide examples of class outlines that have been successfully used with indoor group fitness classes that have made the transition to outdoor programming. Worth 1 CEC
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Everyday Leadership – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Presented by Phil Eastwood
Description: Phil Eastwood uses the philosophy behind Joseph Campbell’s, “The Hero’s Journey” to deliver a powerful and memorable presentation about personal impact + influence, as well as individual responsibility within an organizational setting. Delegates will leave the session with a renewed understanding of the importance of how they should “show up” each day. Worth 1 CEC
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Leadership Resilience: What is it, and how to achieve it? – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Presented by David Lundberg
Description: Resiliency is a hot topic, but what does it mean to be resilient? The old resilience model led us to believe that we needed to hit bottom to bounce back up. That was what resilience meant – overcoming adversity and making life a fight, or struggle. This tactic may work for the short-term, but a leader knows that adversity is something they experience daily: tight deadlines, fluctuating priorities, and unreasonable customer demands are just some of the daily challenges.
The traditional resilience mindset will leave some leaders, managers, and supervisors ill-equipped to carry out their roles. Understanding how your resilience can be strengthened is one of the golden keys of leadership and can lead to long-term success. Worth 1 CEC
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Hives for Humanity – Inclusion of People and Pollinators in Parks – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Presented by Sarah Common and Jim McLeod
Description: Hives for Humanity (H4H) will present how they approach fostering inclusion of all people and pollinators in park projects, installing pollinator meadows and honey bee hives, and on transforming urban spaces into opportunities for connection and healing. This session will answer the questions: What is a pollinator meadow, and what plants and trees do honey bees need for foraging, health, and habitat?
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Flowering in The Parks – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Presented by Hitomi Gilliam, AIFD
Description: Botanicals and flower artistry sculptures serve an important function in our environment and parks by balancing our tech-filled lives with natural beauty. This session will highlight techniques to help you create evocative flower shows in our public parks and gardens that connect us with the natural environment, and draw attention to the importance and beauty of a healthy earthscape. Learn how to showcase flower art in parks and how to collaborate between local government departments, floral artists and flower growers. Discover the power of flower shows and how it can bring the community together.
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Instagram 101 for Fitness Professionals – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Description: Presented by BCRPA Fitness Leader Yana Hempler, this workshop will teach beginners how to use Instagram to grow their engagement and reach on the platform. The workshop will go over: establishing and understanding the target market, ways to generate engagement and grow a following without spending money on ads, as well as generate potential content ideas that trainers can use to attract their ideal clients. 1 CEC
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Self-Esteem and Body Image – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Description: If you have ever struggled with self-esteem or body image, or train clients who do, this workshop addresses negative body image and what to do to change your thinking. Presented by Christina Truscott, this workshop looks at intrinsic/extrinsic factors that affect our psyche. It discusses compliments and criticism, what “esteem” is and how it can affect us, as well as the big ego vs. a strong ego. If you want to try something different than the usual anatomy or exercise workshop, this will give you a change and hopefully help you feel more successful and more positive about yourself. 1 CEC
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Dementia Education Workshop for Fitness Leaders – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Description: Sana Aziz of the Alzheimer Society of BC, and Gail Roxburgh, a BCRPA Registered Fitness Leader with extensive background in working with older adults with dementia in a recreation setting will review the signs and symptoms of dementia, and how to support participants in your classes. This workshop will provide tips for running a dementia friendly fitness class, as well as case studies to expand your understanding in identifying dementia, and give you examples of how to react to situations you may encounter as a Fitness Leader. 1 CEC
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How Fitness Leaders Can Thrive in the Shift from Training In-Person to Online – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Description: Alison Landry, a BCRPA Registered Fitness Leader, will help you find the joy again for teaching. COVID-19 has required fitness to pivot from in-person to online. In this workshop you will learn how to teach classes online and provide you with fresh new class formats and tons of new exercise ideas. The only equipment you will need are weights and a mat. 1 CEC
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New Work Habits for a Changing World of Work – Brenda Robinson – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Description: What is happening to our world of work? Is it a challenge or a chore? “Same old – same old” is now new, different and even exciting. However, some of our old approaches, strategies and ways of doing things must be updated and reframed. We can no longer think in terms of “if it works, why change it”. We have to think in terms of “if it works, we can build on it to grow and improve”. Join Brenda to take a light and informative look at new habits for a changing world of work. 1 CEC
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Training for Successful Aging-Brian Justin – $15 (BCRPA Members $10)

Description: “You know you are not young anymore”. How many of you get a little perturbed hearing this? Granted biology does change as we age but to what extent? As trainers, we have a large role in helping our clients age successfully so that they can pursue the things they love to do. Join Brian as he introduces his 5M system of training that can be used to train any client but especially can help clients age successfully. 0.5 CECs
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Cognitive Benefits of Exercise for Older Adults: Pilates Infused – Teaching Skills – Dorothea Arnett – $15 (BCRPA Members $10)

Description: Learn skills when interacting with older adults to help them know “success”, understanding the benefits for them to “keep moving” and fit. Teaching skills to instructors, to understand the differences between “doing” and “teaching”. As instructors, we are “Life Coaches”, ‘Teachers’ of the benefits of movement and how it affects our health. Learn skills to make the class a social and fun event with their interaction, so they will want to participate in fitness and socialize with others. 0.5 CECs
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Understanding and Intervening with the Explosive Child – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Everyone wants to know, “What should we do about the child who has frequent meltdowns or explosions?” In order to intervene effectively, we must first understand the origins of this challenging behaviour no matter the age of the child. This presentation will introduce the underlying emotion of frustration, and then explain why certain students have a hard time managing their frustration, including the neuroscience surrounding their behaviour. We will look at ways of intervening that avoid certain pitfalls and that have proven to be most effective for helping these children.

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Leading and Guiding Children – Ways to Improve Your Interactions – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

When we work with children there are times when we need them to listen to us. And when they don’t, we find ourselves resorting to tactics that don’t always work and ones that we sometimes regret having used. This presentation will focus on how to get into the lead position with the children in our care that respects their developmental needs and yet allows us to do our job which is that of a teacher and guide.

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Positive Behaviour Supports – Building Social Communication – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

“What does it mean to have a good life?” Having a good life means being able to communicate your needs in a pro-social way. In this webinar we will learn practical strategies to change the environment and increase skills so challenging behaviours are replaced with communication. We will discuss the seven pro-social behaviours required for effective communication and how we implement teaching these life skills in the context of a recreation program.

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Communication: Having difficult conversations with kids and talking to parents – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

It’s more than a two way street. We’ll look at ways to understand what children are trying to tell us and how to have those difficult conversations. Lastly, we’ll finish with how to talk with parents to get buy-in and support.

45 minute video + 10-20 minute worksheet activity

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Lost Child Supervision Strategies – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Ensuring proper supervision of children goes beyond head counts. We’ll look at ways to include supervision in everything you do to ensure you’re at the top of your game safety-wise.

50 minute video + 10-20 minute worksheet activity

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Physical Literacy & How to Teach It – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

What is it and why should we teach it? But most importantly, how do you teach it? We’ll get a better understanding of this critical stage of movement and find ways to introduce it to your participants and their parents.

40 minute video + 10-20 minute worksheet activity

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Physically Distant Camps: Stay safe while keeping the fun and connection – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

How to have fun with minimizing contact with others! Your back pocket will be full of ideas on how to stay safe without losing the fun and social connection.

45 minute video + 10-20 minute worksheet activity

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Sensory-Friendly Strategies for Supporting Behaviour & Setting Up Your Outdoor Camp for Success – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

This workshop will look at supporting behaviours through creating sensory-friendly spaces in recreation settings. The main focus will be on summer day camps and outdoor spaces, however many of the tools and skills will be transferable. This workshop will explore the importance of understanding emotions by using the zones of regulation, visuals and how to use them effectively outside, and adapting your camp space through use of sensory-friendly spaces and sensory tools. Learners will be engaged through scenarios and questions and walk away with resources and considerations for planning camps this summer.

31 minute video + 10-20 minute worksheet activity

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Teaching a Themed Camp: Make yours the one they talk about! – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Camps are a dime a dozen. So how do you stand out? We’ll find simple ways to bring your lesson planning up a notch and make your camp the one that all the kids are talking about at the end of summer.

45 minute video + 10-20 minute worksheet activity

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Transitions Between Activities with Ease – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Learn how to move from activity to activity with ease resulting in less resistance from your participants, faster turnover, and better outcome in participation. This program will look at the emotional needs of children during transitions as well as provide fun ways to transition smoothly.

60 minute video + 10-20 minute worksheet activity

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COVID-19 Protocol: Re-opening Pools -Free

This webinar is facilitated by Dale Miller, Executive Director of the Lifesaving Society – BC & Yukon. Dale is providing information on the first group of National Lifesaving Society Guidelines for opening and operating pools during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Vancouver Coastal Health Guidelines for Swimming Pools is also discussed.

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Cleaning Protocols for COVID-19 -Free

BCRPA and RFABC joint webinar focusing on cleaning recreation facilities to the pandemic standards during COVID-19.

Wendy Hansen, RFABC’s Senior Instructor for Building Service Worker training, shares her extensive knowledge of all aspects of cleaning, floorcare procedures, carpet cleaning, and equipment use and maintenance.

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Strategies for Challenging Behaviour – Proactive Strategies – $41 (BCRPA Members $35)

This one hour training module, facilitated by Katy Bigsby, is designed to support staff working with school-aged children who are dealing with challenging behaviour in programming. This webinar is the foundational course for other the rest of the Strategies for Challenging Behaviour Series and focuses on building rapport, setting boundaries/rules and flexibility. Katy Bigsby has worked with children and youth with behavioural and social-emotional issues in school and community settings for the past 25 years. Her formal training is in Social Work and Education. She is currently completing her Masters of Leadership in Community Engagement and Adult Education at the University of Victoria.

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Strategies for Challenging Behaviour – The Big 3 – $41 (BCRPA Members $35)

This one hour training module, facilitated by Katy Bigsby, is designed to support staff working with school-aged children who are dealing with challenging behaviour in programming. This webinar focuses on the Big 3: not listening, not participating and being rude or disrespectful. Katy Bigsby has worked with children and youth with behavioural and social-emotional issues in school and community settings for the past 25 years. Her formal training is in Social Work and Education. She is currently completing her Masters of Leadership in Community Engagement and Adult Education at the University of Victoria.

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Strategies for Challenging Behaviour – Social-Emotional Learning Part 1- $41 (BCRPA Members $35)

This one hour training module, facilitated by Katy Bigsby, is designed to support staff working with school-aged children who are dealing with challenging behaviour in programming. This webinar focuses on Social-Emotional Learning and how to use reflective questions, modelling, and different tools to build your staff’s capacity to manage children with challenging behaviours. This is the first part of a two part series. Katy Bigsby has worked with children and youth with behavioural and social-emotional issues in school and community settings for the past 25 years. Her formal training is in Social Work and Education. She is currently completing her Masters of Leadership in Community Engagement and Adult Education at the University of Victoria.

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Strategies for Challenging Behaviour – Social-Emotional Learning Part 2- $41 (BCRPA Members $35)

This one hour training module, facilitated by Katy Bigsby, is designed to support staff working with school-aged children who are dealing with challenging behaviour in programming. This webinar focuses on Social-Emotional Learning and how to use reflective questions, modelling, and different tools to build your staff’s capacity to manage children with challenging behaviours. This is the second part of a two part series. Katy Bigsby has worked with children and youth with behavioural and social-emotional issues in school and community settings for the past 25 years. Her formal training is in Social Work and Education. She is currently completing her Masters of Leadership in Community Engagement and Adult Education at the University of Victoria.

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Strategies for Challenging Behaviour – Case Scenarios – $41 (BCRPA Members $35)

This one hour training module, facilitated by Katy Bigsby, is designed to support staff working with school-aged children who are dealing with challenging behaviour in programming. This webinar focuses on Case Studies, covering areas such as bolting, anger and No! Katy Bigsby has worked with children and youth with behavioural and social-emotional issues in school and community settings for the past 25 years. Her formal training is in Social Work and Education. She is currently completing her Masters of Leadership in Community Engagement and Adult Education at the University of Victoria.

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Strategies for Challenging Behaviour – What’s up with Bullying? – $41 (BCRPA Members $35)

This one hour training module, facilitated by Katy Bigsby, is designed to support staff working with school-aged children who are dealing with challenging behaviour in programming. This webinar focuses on bullying and covers the following:
– When aggressive behaviour peaks
– That bullying is a societal issue
– Being vulnerable is key
– The importance of self-reflection
– How to proactively build social cohesion
Katy Bigsby has worked with children and youth with behavioural and social-emotional issues in school and community settings for the past 25 years. Her formal training is in Social Work and Education. She is currently completing her Masters of Leadership in Community Engagement and Adult Education at the University of Victoria.

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Strategies for Challenging Behaviour – Supporting Kids with Anxiety – $41 (BCRPA Members $35)

This one hour training module is designed to support staff working with school-aged children who are dealing with challenging behaviour in programming. This webinar focuses on supporting kids with anxiety and covers the following:
– How worry and anxiety are normal
– How flexibility is key
– What anxiety loves
– How your role-modeling can positively impact a child or client’s well-being
– What exercises and activities can help manage anxiety
Katy Bigsby has worked with children and youth with behavioural and social-emotional issues in school and community settings for the past 25 years. Her formal training is in Social Work and Education. She is currently completing her Masters of Leadership in Community Engagement and Adult Education at the University of Victoria.

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Building Genuine Community Partnerships with Jim Diers – $55 (BCRPA Members $45)

Jim Diers knows that community engagement in 2018 means something very different than it did 20, 10 or even 5 years ago. In 2018 we held a livestream with Jim as he shared concrete tools and stories of building genuine successful partnerships in today’s communities. Jim explores the importance of key factors such as cultural diversity, aging populations, social capital, impacts of climate change, loss of community and connection to place and more… Hear on-the-ground stories of how powerful tools such as community mapping, open space, bottom-up planning and others have assisted associations, agencies and government to build successful, broad, inclusive community engagement in today’s rapidly changing world.

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Autism Awareness for Recreation Leaders – Free

This course is designed to provide recreation staff with an overview of autism and an introduction to strategies for supporting individuals with autism in recreation settings.  In this highly interactive one-hour module, learners will work through four real life scenarios, watching a series of video interviews with recreation staff who have dealt with similar situations.  Learners will become more familiar with the behaviours associated with autism, and walk away with communication tips, teaching and learning strategies and behaviour support approaches.  Learners will receive a certificate upon completion of the course.

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Healthy Choices – Free

Recreation facilities promote healthy lifestyles but often, the food and beverage options for patrons leave much to be desired.  It’s hard to promote healthy lifestyles when the only options after a good workout are pop, chips and chocolate bars. So where do you start?  This interactive course will walk through a five step process to support you in transforming your facility to a “Healthy Choices Facility”.  There are lots of tools and templates embedded in this course that you can use.

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PoolSafeBC — $40

Welcome to the official PoolSafeBC online course and exam. This course is designed for all aquatic centre staff to enhance their knowledge and skills in recognizing, evaluating and controlling hazards in pool settings.  In order to receive certification, you are required to fully complete the course and achieve 70% on the exam. A PoolSafeBC certificate can be printed immediately following successful completion. The course covers subjects such as rights and responsibilities of employers and workers, common hazards, microbiological organisms, chemical safety and emergency preparation and response. This course will take between 3-4 hours to complete. You can stop and start the course as it will remember where you left off, if you use the same computer/device.

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Aboriginal Cultural Relations Module – Free

This online module is designed to educate sport and recreation leaders about important aspects of Aboriginal culture, and to provide best practices on how to incorporate this awareness into their programming. With history, teachings, personal experiences and resources built into the module, leaders can walk away with a better understanding of how to ensure Aboriginal people participate in sport and recreation in an environment that is inclusive, safe and respectful.

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BCRPA Shared Use Agreement Guide – Free

Working together and sharing facilities makes good sense but takes a bit of work! There are many things that need to be thought through to make sure the partnerships meet the needs of all. This course describes the different types of shared use agreements, explains when to use them, and enables you to create a draft agreement of your own.

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Engaging the Hard to Reach – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Engaging the “Hard to Reach” provides an overview of who the ‘hard to reach’ are, helps you to identify common barriers to their participation in programs, suggest ways to diversify your approach and provide strategies to increase involvement and make recreation opportunities accessible to all. This course in only accessible by desktop computer (no mobile devices currently).

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Social Inclusion and Recreation – $25 (BCRPA Members $20)

Social Inclusion and Recreation provides an overview of the link between poverty and health, highlights the difference between access and inclusion and provides strategies on how to leverage your recreation opportunities to increase social inclusion in your community. This course in only accessible by desktop computer (no mobile devices currently).

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Vulnerable Populations – Free

This course teaches front line leaders how to create and deliver recreation programs to all children, including those from vulnerable populations, focusing on what vulnerabilities are shared by children from different marginalized groups, how those vulnerabilities manifest themselves as behaviours, and how to best address those larger issues.

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Canada Food Guide Webinar – $10 (BCRPA Members $5)

The Canada Food Guide was updated in February 2019 by Health Canada. This webinar provides information on the current guidelines and considerations on healthy eating, and how it can be used as a resource for developing nutritional policies, programs and educational resources.

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