Momenta has been listening, learning and leading since 2006. We offer professional development to share our expertise. We provide workshops and keynotes for professionals working with youth across Canada. Our models and strategies are created from research in social work, youth development, experiential education, and adventure therapy and tested in the field at our programs.
We are happy to combine trainings into a day event, host your annual retreat or design custom training to meet your needs. We value relationships and are happy to design long-term consulting and training plans with organizations.
Some of our most popular workshops include:
Responding to Challenging Behaviour
This workshop will focus on anti-oppressive, strengths-based strategies to prevent and respond to challenging behaviours, including
- Creating safety in the first ten minutes
- Promising Practices
- Promising Practices in Action
Participants gain an understanding of why behaviours of concern occur and how to reduce the number of them through leadership, programming, and strategies for dealing with them.
Aligning Organizational Values and Expectations
Sessions will include experiential activities and facilitated discussions designed to define organizational values, connect values to behaviour expectations, and strengthen connections to deepen relationships with each other and the organization.
Activity-Based Social Emotional Learning Strategies
Social-emotional skills development allows young people to improve connection, communication, and problem-solving. Join us to learn how facilitated activities can be used in programs and classrooms to enhance pro-social skills.
Experiential Learning; Facilitation and Reflection
Join us in this activity-based workshop where we look at the benefits of experiential learning programs, explore ways to implement experiential learning into programming, and learn a model for facilitation to achieve group goals within programs and transfer to young people’s everyday lives.
Group Cohesion; Connection and Communication
Group cohesion workshops are designed to create connection, develop problem-solving skills and create an environment of open communication. The facilitator invites participants to consider how connection and communication can promote a sense of belonging among group members.
Wellness and the Outdoors
This 3-hour professional development workshop shares current research on wellness and the outdoors and invites participants to connect with themselves, each other, and place.
Ten Essentials for Outdoor Learning
Join Momenta for a three-hour experiential workshop exploring the Ten Essentials for Outdoor Learning. Participants will learn about ten tools that should be included in outdoor adventures to increase confidence, safety and fun. This workshop will take place outdoors.
Introduction to Forest and Nature School
Join Momenta to learn about the seven relationships of an ethical Forest and Nature School in Kanata. A model developed at Momenta and delivered Nationally by the Child and Nature Alliance of Canada. Forest and Nature School takes place outside and is an approach that focuses on maintaining a balance of seven relationships: land, trust, power, play, risk, story and learning. At the centre of the seven relationships is where we hold space for the learner – the WHY of what we do. This workshop takes place outside and is an introduction to this model.
Games leader
Join us for an action-packed session. Learn how to plan and run a fun, safe, and engaging game session for any age group. This workshop includes many new activities that need a few supplies.
Organizational Planning and Goal Setting
Momenta can facilitate your organizational planning and goal setting! Please feel free to contact us to learn more.
Recreation Program Consulting
Momenta has worked with many programs to help train staff, design policy and operational systems, plan activities and oversee delivery. Please feel free to contact us to learn more.
Relationship with Land, Truth and Reconciliation
Going outside is an act of reconciliation and ignites a passion to advocate for Mother Earth. Join us for an experience that will deepen our relationships with land, truth, stories and reconciliation.
This training series is facilitated by Lise Brown, Co-Founder at Momenta and Adrian Alphonso. Adrian is a Band and Community Member of Waywayseecappo First Nation, he leads on Treaty One Territory to honour truth and reconciliation and inspire a connection to the land.
At Momenta we teach to and lead by our values in Wînipêk, in Treaty One Territory. Treaty One was signed in 1871 by the original peoples of the territory – the Anishinaabe and Nehiyaw Peoples. Wînipêk is the heartland of the Red River Métis.
At Momenta, we commit to knowing the truth and responding to the calls to action of the Indian Residential School survivors. We are currently accountable to Calls to Action 90, 83, 11 and 13. Momenta’s Reconciliation reports are published in the annual Winnipeg Indigenous Accord which is accessible to the public from 2020 to present. We will continue to set goals with actions and lead by our responsibility for reconciliation. Miigwetch to Murray Sinclair and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada for guiding all of us to Truth & Reconciliation.
Adventure For Good
How do we ethically engage with the land? Join staff from Momenta Inc. (Treaty One Territory) to learn how they engage with the land. Topics will include placemaking, truth-telling, reconciliation reflection and action planning. Momenta will also share their two-eyed seeing model that brings together the Leave No Trace Principles and the Seven Grandfather Teachings called “Adventure for Good.” This workshop will be outdoors and experiential; participants should expect a shared experience on the land, including activities and reflections about their past, present and future relationship with land. We ask participants to arrive with an open mind and curiosity to learn and grow.
Please get in touch with us to learn more about or book a workshop or keynote.
Working with Momenta on creating a Behaviour Based Model for Siloam Mission was fantastic. They came in with a clear work plan to get us from where we were to where we needed to be, and every step of the way, they engaged community members and direct service staff in the process. This meant that we had the right people creating the model, those who would model it and live it, and that meant it was easier for folks to begin to implement it because they understood and participated in its development.
Momenta also had the best practice research built into the model making and the model itself – as you can see in our model.
As we commit to moving to Best Practices across all our operational areas, the work with Momenta on the model baked that into the process.
It was also great to have an external partner leading the work, partly because they brought expertise and dedicated time to this project as we maintained operations. They also created spaces for feedback where staff team members felt comfortable voicing doubt and opposition. They brought that to us anonymously so we could work on the necessary training, internal communications and supports for our team to adopt the model. Momenta also designed and facilitated all the training necessary for the model to be implemented and then supported us to have that capacity in-house (both by video and by supporting our teammates to lead training).
This work would not have been as successful or efficient without their professional guidance.
– Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud, Chief Executive Officer, Siloam Mission
The folks at Momenta are masters in connecting all people with nature in a way that respects the land and its traditional caretakers. As an organization with similar principles, we value this and have found our partnerships with them to be incredibly meaningful.
– Caleigh Christie, General Manager – Falcon Trails Resort & Falcon Ridge Ski Slopes
