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Workshops
- What Red Seal?
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Navigating Through Apprenticeship Under ITAC.
- Claiming the Territory
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What would the ideal workplace look like? What would keep women on the job? Dealing with internalized sexism and other burning questions.
- Dressing for Success: Comfort and Safety
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Knowing what to wear, when, and finding the equipment that fits.
- Snapppy Comebacks
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What to say when you're speechless.
- Alternatives to grievances and Human Rights complaints
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Effective communication on the job.
- Finding the job and keeping it
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Practical tips & techniques for job search and job maintenance.
- The business of business
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Starting and running your own company.
- Life after the ticket
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What could come next? Options for staying in the trade longer, or for shifting to related fields.
- Storytelling: or Making a Culture of Construction
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Sit back and tell about your first day, your best/worst job, maybe write about it, make a film... Or just listen.
- Learning Styles
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Feeling stupid when you're the only one asking questions? Find out why, and a whole lot more.
- Men, Women and Tools
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Join a discussion on exploring resistance to equity initiatives.
- Cultural Challenges
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The things we can't change that can hold us back: race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation...