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.
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.
Not Sure Where to Start? Take Our Self-Assessment
Take a look at our Changemaker Self-Assessment. It can suggest resources or learning opportunities that are relevant to your needs. This free resource can serve as the first step in your learning journey.
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.
Community Engagement: From Debate to Dialogue
February 12, 2026
Community engagement is becoming increasingly complex as polarization, intolerance, and fear make it harder for groups to work together. This session will equip you with practical techniques to navigate polarized situations, foster healthy dialogue, and create the conditions for more equitable, inclusive engagement.
The Practice of Sensemaking: Strengthening Our Capacity to Navigate Uncertainty
March 5, 2026
Join this interactive workshop to explore why sensemaking is important in an ever-changing world. You’ll learn tools to interpret experience, uncover insights, and strengthen collective decision-making. Walk away ready to turn shared understanding into meaningful action.
2026 Changemaker Experiences Cohort
March 20, 2026 (Application Deadline)
This cohort is an opportunity to enhance the skills necessary for building consensus & commitment to accelerate systems-level impact. The Changemaker Experience will bring together a small cohort of changemakers who will learn together, experience tools and resources, and develop new skills to bring back to their communities and collaboratives.
Collaborating with Confidence: Essential Skills for Success
March 26, 2026
Join this workshop to deepen your capacity to lead and facilitate diverse groups in developing shared strategies and understanding the core phases of community change. You’ll also explore key mindset shifts, practical tools, and real-world examples that strengthen collaborative work.
Comment créer une théorie du changement
May 4, 2026
Cet atelier interactif propose un accompagnement pas à pas pour concevoir une théorie du changement adaptée à votre organisation, votre initiative ou votre projet. À travers des réflexions guidées, des exemples concrets et des exercices collaboratifs, vous explorerez les notions clés qui sous-tendent une théorie du changement : les besoins et aspirations des communautés, les hypothèses implicites, les conditions nécessaires au changement, ainsi que les résultats à court, moyen et long terme.
Building Your Theory of Change
May 7, 2026
This interactive workshop offers step-by-step guidance to help you develop a theory of change tailored to your organization, initiative, or project. Through guided reflection, concrete examples, and collaborative exercises, you will explore the key elements that underpin a theory of change: community needs and aspirations, underlying assumptions, the conditions required for change, and short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes.
Empowering Change:
Advancing Diversity in Collaboratives
May 14, 2026
Join this workshop to strengthen your ability to lead collaboratives that are more inclusive, representative, and effective. You’ll examine how power, systems, and decision-making shape outcomes, and learn inclusive and adaptive leadership approaches that build trust and broaden who holds influence at the table.
Fundamentals of Asset-Based Community Development
May 28, 2026
Join this workshop to gain a practical introduction to Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), a people-centred approach to planning that starts with what communities already have. ABCD focuses on identifying and connecting people’s gifts, skills, and strengths—assets that, when mobilized together, can address shared challenges and create meaningful change.
Community Change Summit (in-person)
October 21-23, 2026
After three years apart, we’re coming back together - in person, in purpose, and in possibility. Fall 2026, join a movement of changemakers from across Canada and beyond for a summit that celebrates the courage of community, the power of place, and the promise of what’s next. Together, we’ll learn, connect, and accelerate solutions that transform lives and landscapes.
February
18
The System Isn’t Working, So What’s Next? Rethinking Change Through Connection
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
March
18
Naming the Barriers - Understanding Common Barriers to Equitable Engagement in Climate Adaptation
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
May
20
Building Internal Readiness - Shifting Culture & Practices for Inclusive Engagement
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
July
15
Designing for Belonging - Methods for Inclusive Engagement & Centring Lived Experience
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
September
23
Multi-Sectoral Partnership in Action: Breaking Silos: Tools for Cross-Sector Collaboration
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
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