Workshops and Labs
Learn more about each workshop or lab through the links below. Register for them all on our events page.
Vantage Point works with various partners to provide a limited number of bursaries to staff and board members of eligible organizations to attend Vantage Point’s workshops and multi-day labs.
Find all bursary programs and eligibility requirements here.
Workshops
Board Development Workshops
- Board Fundamentals: Roles and Responsibilities
- Board Fundamentals: Roles and Responsibilities (eLearning)
- Board Fundamentals: Financial Governance
- Board Fundamentals: Fund Development
- Board Fundamentals: Succession and Recruitment
- Board Fundamentals: Critical Role of the Board Chair
- Board Fundamentals: Effective Board Meeting Facilitation
- Board Fundamentals: Supporting Your Executive Director
- Board Fundamentals: Executive Director Succession Planning
ADVANCED GOVERNANCE
- Advanced Governance: Strategic and Generative Conversations
- Advanced Governance: Strategic Financial Governance
INCLUSIVE BOARDS
- Board Diversity & Inclusion: Introduction to Key Concepts
- Inclusive Boards: Deepening Foundations and Embedding Actions
- Inclusive Boards: Disability Perspectives
- Inclusive Boards: Decolonizing Practices and Navigating Power
- Neuro-Inclusive Board Culture and Meetings
- Volunteering on Non-Profit Boards: How and Why to join a Board
Leadership Workshops
Capacity Building Workshops
STRATEGY & PLANNING
- Introduction to Project Management
- Organizational Lifecycles Assessment
- Strategic Decision Making
- Strategic Planning ABCs
- Strategic Plan Implementation
TEAM EFFECTIVENESS
- Effective and Inclusive Facilitation
- Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Positive Volunteer Relationships
- Team Cohesion
- Tools for Recruiting and Selection
FINANCIAL & FUND DEVELOPMENT
LEGAL COMPLIANCE
EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS
Multi-day Labs
Collaboration Lab: Bridging People, Organizations, and Sectors
Essentials for New Managers Lab
Executive Director 101 Lab
Leadership Principles Lab
Advanced Executive Lab
Capacity Development Lab
Raising the Right Revenue: A Fund Development Lab
A note on safety
Vantage Point is committed to fostering a safe learning environment that minimizes emotional or psychological harm and allows participants to explore difficult issues and express their views honestly.
We recognize that safety is a group responsibility and ask all participants to commit to respectful and considerate engagement.
Though we cannot always guarantee participant safety, Vantage Point:
- Seeks to create a space where diverse participants can work with issues that are challenging to them, through discomfort, without threat of judgement or prejudice.
- Encourages participants to learn from each other’s perspectives, opinions, and mistakes.
- Supports facilitator skills and confidence to engage with compassion if a participant is experiencing emotional or psychological harm.
- Takes opportunities to learn from participant feedback around safety.