Elevate your Co-op Experience with our 2025 Education Workshops
Don’t miss out on our exciting lineup of education workshops designed especially for you!
whether you’re a seasoned co-op member or just moved into your co-op, our education workshops are tailored to equip you with valuable insights and knowledge.
Discover a range of engaging topics, from financial management and governance to community building and sustainable living. gain expertise from sector professionals and field experts, and take away practical tips to empower your co-op experience.
Don’t miss out on these valuable opportunities to strengthen your foundation in co-op knowledge and contribute even more meaningfully to the success of your co-operative. Mark your calendars and register today! Let’s embark on a journey of continuous learning and growth.
We look forward to seeing you at one—or more—of these workshops!
Boards and Committees Working Together – Feb 6
Look at what practices have served us well in the past, what hasn’t worked, and what we want for the future.
This workshop will cover:
- How committees are formed and managed
- Roles and responsibilities of the board and committees
- Which committees make a positive contribution to good governance (and which don’t)
- How to tell if your board and committees are working well
- and More!
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What Makes a Good Board? – Feb 13
The best workshop for a newly elected board: packed full with the basic knowledge all housing co-op directors need as well as tools for how to work effectively to ensure good governance, sound management and principled leadership.
A co-op’s success or failure as a business and as a community depends on a good effective board.
A good board understands:
- its legal obligations;
- how the co-op’s governing documents guide decision-making and actions
- its role and the role of the general membership, staff, and committees—in governing and managing the co-op;
- and more!
Register here
What Makes a Good Director? – Feb 20
Good directors make a good board. With a focus on the duty of care and the duty of loyalty this basic primer focuses on how each individual director ensures the board’s success.
Good directors need to know what they can do as individuals to ensure a board’s success. We’ve all heard about a director’s fiduciary duty and the duty of care. But how do these important concepts translate into the daily demand for good governance and principled leadership in our co-ops? What does “acting in the best interest of the co-op” really mean? How must a director and the board handle situations of conflict of interest?
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Effective Board Meetings – Mar 13
Learn the skills and strategies needed to transform your co-op's board meetings into efficient, collaborative, and results-oriented meetings.
This workshop is designed to help your board hold well-run and productive board meetings. You will learn how to establish teamwork, a board culture, and operating principles.
Register here.
Leadership that Inspires Member Involvement – Mar 20
We all prefer activities we find rewarding—it’s human nature. It’s no different in housing co-ops.
Communities have to earn their members’ involvement before they get it consistently.
The good news is that we can do it. And if we do it really well, we may have to knock out a wall in our meeting rooms just to hold all the keen members!
Register Here
Additional Information
Be sure to check back regularly for new workshops being added to the list.
Schedule
- Workshops take place weekday evenings from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. PST.
Online Registration
- Member rates are $45/person or $200 for six registrations from one co-op or organization.
- Non-member rates are $90/person.
*Reminder: Registrations must be in by 3 PM on the day of the workshop. Don’t miss out!*
If you have any questions, please contact Debbie at dvankuyk@chf.bc.ca.