Christine facilitates innovation & healing.

As a co-founder of Safer Spaces Training, Christine designs trauma-informed workshops that support psychological safety and workplace wellbeing. Her facilitation is grounded in systems thinking, design thinking, and social innovation.

With Margaret Wheatley, Head of Berkana Institute

With Margaret Wheatley, Head of Berkana Institute

Relevant Trainings:

  • Compassionate Conversations: talking about climate (2020) | Zen Study and Practice with Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi

  • Human Centered Design Thinking (2019) | Acumen+ and IDEO U

  • Warriors for the Human Spirit (2019) | Margaret Wheatley with Berkana Institute

  • uLab: Leading from the Emergent Future (2019) | TheoryU Otto Scharmer and EdX

  • Integral Facilitator (2019), Inclusion 2.0: Move Beyond Power, Politics, and Political Correctness (2019) | Ten Directions

  • Positive Deep Adaptation (2019) | Prof Jem Bendell and Katie Carr

  • Sprint School (2019) | Alberta Health Services Design Lab

  • Getting to Maybe (2018) | Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience at the University of Waterloo + Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

  • Evaluation Masterclass: Principle-focused Evaluation (2018) | Tamarack Institute, Calgary

  • Canadian Association of Medical Education’s Leadership (2013) | CLIME Canada

  • Art of Hosting (2011) | Berkana Institute

Facilitating in East Africa

Facilitating in East Africa

International Workshops:

  • Workshopped The Besrour Storybooth: Narrative Competence towards Social Accountability with Clayton Dyck | To WONCA World Conference of Family Doctors | Seoul, Korea (Oct 2018)

  • Workshopped Harvesting and Hearing: Narratives for Authentic Collaboration and Learning | To TUFH World Summit on Social Accountability | Hammamet, Tunisia (Apr 2017)

  • Workshopped Family Medicine Overview, Comprehensive Care, Coordination of Care, and Patient-Centred Care | To 30 faculty and residents at the University of Gondar Faculty of Medicine | Gondar, Ethiopia (Feb 2016)

  • Facilitated Updates in Family Medicine Globally, Scholarship and Research, Effective Presentation of Research, and Reflective Critique of Research | To participants at East Africa Family Medicine Initiative | Nairobi, Kenya (Nov 2014)

  • Facilitated Contextualizing Family Medicine Curriculum to Myanmar and Blueprinting the Assessment Process | To novel Family Medicine faculty of Myanmar Medical Association Section of GP’s | Yangon, Myanmar (Sep 2013)

  • Facilitated East Africa Family Medicine Initiative meeting | To participants at the Ugandan National Family Medicine Scientific Conference | Kampala, Uganda (Oct 2013)

  • Facilitated East Africa Family Medicine Initiative meeting | To participants at the WONCA Africa Meeting in Victoria Falls | Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (Nov 2012)

  • Facilitated East Africa Family Medicine Initiative meeting | To participants at the family medicine stakeholders in East Africa | Mwanza, Tanzania (Sep 2011)