Our work
Our work takes us all across Canada. Here are some projects we’ve recently been working on:
NS Department of Health & Wellness, Primary Health Care
Building a Better Tomorrow Together
This project involved delivery of a Facilitation Skills Training Program to prepare over 75 facilitators across Nova Scotia and establishment of a facilitator community of practice
Public Health Agency of Canada
Learning for Health: Health Literacy Embedded Learning Demonstration Project
This project is a national initiative to engage three community-based organizations and facilitate collaboration and partnerships with their broader community networks to support health literacy embedded learning.
“Gerard is a superb facilitator who can work with diverse teams to achieve tangible results. For the ‘Learning for Health’ Health Literacy Project, Gerard worked with community groups to help them understand how health literacy affected their clients, and then act to improve health literacy in their organizations. Gerard tailored his training and facilitation approach to the unique needs of each community, and created lively and engaging learning sessions. I hired Gerard to create similar tools for a health literacy session for public health experts in 2011, and requests are still coming in to use and adapt these tools, based on Gerard’s presentation of the subject.
What I very much appreciate is that Gerard works diligently with his client to understand expectations and desired outcomes, and then comes up with an approach that meets the client’s needs. It never feels as if I am getting a “cookie cutter” facilitated session with Gerard.”
Linda Jacobsen
Senior Policy Analyst, Public Health Agency of Canada
Western Health, Newfoundland and Labrador
Among projects completed for Western Health is the recent design of module materials and delivery of train-the-trainer session Facilitating Adult Learning
PEI Nurses Union
2012 Nurses Eastern Labour School
Barefoot Facilitation prepared and delivered a course for the Nurses Eastern Labour School entitled Personalities at Work
Tui’kn Partnership
Privacy Project
For this project, Barefoot provided support for the creation of a Privacy Statement and follow-up training with the five Unima’ki communities
Dartmouth Adult Services Centre
Staff Development Day
Workshop title: Customer Service and Interpersonal Communication
“Gerard provided a fast paced, content specific and fun professional development day for our staff team. The responses were the best we have heard in a long time! Many thanks and we will hire Gerard again!”
Cathy Deagle-Gammon
Executive Director at DASC
NS Department of Environment, Solid Waste Management
Operational Planning
Barefoot Facilitation provided facilitation support for a work planning session related to the Our Path Forward: Building on the Success of Nova Scotia’s Solid Waste Resource Management Strategy document
NSCC School of Health & Human Services, Institute of Technology Campus
Administrative Staff Retreat for the School of Health and Human Services
For this initiative, Barefoot Facilitation developed and delivered the Workshop Personal Energy Management at Work: Through the art of communication, assertiveness and energy maximization
Canadian Cancer Society
2010 Volunteer Conference
For this conference, we developed and delivered the Workshop Building Blocks to High Performing Volunteer Teams
Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories
First Link Dementia Early Intervention Project
Wellness Institute at Seven Oaks General Hospital
Staff Development
For this client in Winnipeg, Barefoot developed and delivered the Workshop Integrating Health Literacy within Client Interactions