Welcome to our Learning Centre
Our learning opportunities will equip you with skills and connections for impactful community change. Learners will explore areas like Collaboration, Collective Leadership, Community Engagement, Asset-Based Community Development, and more.
Learning at Tamarack
The Tamarack Institute is a Registered Canadian Charity dedicated to ending poverty in all its forms and skill-building for changemakers. Many of our workshops, webinars and online training courses are focused on place and community.
We'd love to partner with you!
Tamarack is pleased to offer the Partner With Us option for participants who wish to attend our workshops and cohorts but require a small discount in order for them to be accessible. Learn more below!
Here's a list of our upcoming workshops, webinars and Communities of Practice. As usual, our online courses are available year round, and you can learn at your own pace.
Featured Event
2025 Changemaker experience
The Changemaker Experience is intentionally designed as an intimate, small-group learning experience. The 2025 Changemaker Experience cohort will be limited to 100 participants. Participants will build connections and become a peer learning group to share successful practices and challenges in driving community and systems-level change.
Evaluation 201: Frameworks And Theories of Change
May 29, 2025
This interactive workshop provides a comprehensive overview of frameworks as a tool for impact evaluation, offering a step-by-step guide as to how to create an evaluation framework for your organisation or project. You’ll learn what a theory of change is, how to develop one, and how it can guide both your work and your evaluations.
Embracing Collective Leadership Workshop
June 17, 2025
This workshop will look at what it really takes to move toward collective leadership. You’ll get practical tools and resources to help you think critically about how leadership and governance work in nonprofits today. Drawing from real experiences of senior leaders in the field, we’ll also explore how boards, executives, and managers can put collective leadership into action in meaningful ways.
Advancing Systems Change with Collective Impact
September 18 & 25, 2025
Join this dynamic two-part virtual workshop to craft strategies that tackle the systemic barriers contributing to the issues our programs and services are intended to solve. Discover Collective Impact in action and equip yourself with practical tools to co-design a systems-focused effort that drives real change
Policy Change to Support Community-Driven Outcomes
October 9, 2025
Join this workshop to explore the importance of community and grounding policy change in place. Learn how to build the case and foundation for policy change, define your goals, reflect on internal & external organizational shifts, and develop a strategic plan to drive meaningful change.
Facilitation Skills for Collective Action
November 5 & 12, 2025
Join this interactive workshop to elevate your facilitation skills to inspire groups to equitably achieve meaningful goals. Over two sessions, you'll learn seven essential practices, practical tools, and actionable strategies to co-create a collaborative path forward.
Developing Your Collaboration Impact Story
November 18, 2025
Join this workshop to learn the seven steps for crafting compelling stories that showcase your collaborative's successes and progress. Learn how a well-told story can help attract and retain the funders and partners needed to deepen your community impact.
Pause, Reflect, and Reimagine
November 29, 2025
Join this interactive workshop designed to help you create space for meaningful reflection, explore tools and structures for visioning, and cultivate a sense of collective care and accountability. Equip yourself with practical strategies to navigate what rest, reflection, and goal-setting can look like in your personal or professional life.
Anti-Racism & Indigenous Cultural Competency
Embark on a journey to deepen your understanding of anti-racism and Indigenous cultural competency and frameworks, as well as the modern-day impacts of historical oppression, as you work to create culturally responsive change in your community change efforts.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion + Community Change
This learning cohort will equip participants with skills in handling challenging conversations related to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in community settings. You'll gain strategies to create inclusive policies, spaces and practices and develop a shared understanding of language.
Adaptive and Resilient Communities Cohort
The Adaptive and Resilient Communities Cohort (ARCC) is designed to catalyze community-level actions to advance local climate adaptation and resilience projects. The cohort will bring together 15 collaborative teams (i.e., collaborations between at least two partners) for a year-long journey of applied learning and action that includes communities of practice, tailored coaching, and access to the latest thinking, tools, and resources, all designed to help you overcome your barriers to action.
May
7
Exploring Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Speakers: Adam Kahane, Co-founder of Reos Partners & Sylvia Cheuy, Consulting Director of Collaboration, Tamarack
May
14
Reimagining Systems: The Role of System Orchestrators
12:00 - 1:30 PM ET
Speakers: Priya Ajmera, Centre for Exponential Change & Danya Pastuszek, President and CEO, Tamarack Institute
May
14
Building Bridges: Connecting Youth Skills to the Future of Work
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Speakers: Youthful Cities
May
21
Community Futures: Using the Future in Collaborative Changemaking - Part 2
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
Speaker: Daren Okafo, Consulting Director of Collective Leadership, Tamarack
Asset-Based Community Development Community of Practice
Dive deeper into the principles and practices of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) by joining a vibrant network of practitioners and residents committed to community-driven growth.
Learn more & register here: https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/abcd-community-of-practice
Basic Income Atlantic Canada
Join advocates from across Atlantic Canada to work towards a national livable basic income guarantee.
Learn more & register here: https://www.big-ns.org/atlantic-canada-basic-income-now
BC Communities Ending Poverty
Join a committed group of individuals with a common desire to learn from each other, to enable professional self-development, and to build capacities of their local poverty reduction initiatives.
Learn more & register here: https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/bc_reducingpoverty_cop
Community's Role in Community Safety
Join us to explore how building a sense of belonging can address polarization and foster a holistic approach to community safety. We'll delve into challenges and successes in resident engagement and cross-sector collaboration.
Learn more & register here: https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/community-safety-community-of-practice
Community's Role in Emergency Preparedness
Join us to explore examples of the role of community in emergency preparedness as well as tools and resources to help organizations trying to catalyze community-led emergency preparedness.
Learn more & register here: https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/emergency-preparedness-community-of-practice
Neighbourhood Learning Community of Practice
By joining this unique community of practice, you will connect and collaborate with a diverse network of practitioners that share resources, programs, policies, and best practices for building belonging and strengthening social infrastructure in neighbourhoods.
Learn more and register here: https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/neighbourhood-learning-community-of-practice
Strategy for Belonging Working Group
Join us for a series of engaging dialogues, interactive workshops, and collaborative co-design sessions as we embark on the next phase of our journey towards making a call for a Canada-wide strategy for Belonging – the Strategy for Belonging Working Group.
Learn more and register here: https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/strategy-for-belonging-working-group