Training and Facilitation

I am a skilled facilitator with experience leading complex multi-stakeholder processes and groups.

Between 2022 and 2024, I coordinated and facilitated Women’s Shelters Canada’s Community of Practice on Harm Reduction and Lowering Barriers to Services, which brought together 25 anglophone and francophone VAW shelters and transition houses throughout Canada, to share best practices in person and virtually with the aim of better supporting service women and gender-diverse folk who use substances.

From 2018 – 2020, I delivered trainings throughout Ontario to Francophone settlement service providers, to increase their understanding of issues faced by LGBTQ2S+ newcomers and their capacity to create inclusive spaces, for the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI)

I have facilitated the founding meetings of the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization (November 2016), and the Global PKU association (July 2017), a five-day  gathering that brought together representatives from 15 patient organizations in Europe and the Americas. Between March and June 2020, I collaborated with CATIE to develop and host a webinar series on COVID-19, HIV and sexuality, in French.

I have MC’d a range of events, including the AGM of the Centre Association Polyvalent d’hépatite C (2025), Quebec provincial final of the Canadian Parents for French Concours d’art oratoire (2019), and the Town Hall on Drug Pricing, held prior to the 2018 federal elections in Ottawa. I hosted the first two Drug Pricing Policy Summits in November 2016 and 2017, two-day patient education events held in Toronto and co-hosted by the Canadian Cancer Survivor Network, the Ontario Schizophrenia Society and the Save your Skin Foundation.

As a part-time instructor at the University of Ottawa and the University of Calgary, and as a community educator, I have delivered over 200 trainings, classes and workshops. This includes tailor-made trainings on program evaluation and performance measurement, which I have offered to Canadian Parents for French, the Assemblée de la francophonie de l’Ontario, the Maison Plein Coeur, the Tables des organismes montréalais en VIH, and the Positive Leadership Development Institute, amongst others.  

As a consultant and an employee of pan-Canadian organizations, including the Canadian AIDS Society, I have facilitated the work of regional and national committees using online platforms, teleconferences and in-person meetings, and I have organized over 40 national, regional and local events and meetings. In this context, my responsibilities have included identifying and building partnerships with key stakeholders; facilitating the work of planning committees; developing funding proposals; liaising with participants, speakers, volunteers and funders; and overseeing communications and event or meeting logistics.