Workshops, Conferences & Webinars

If you are offering an educational opportunity of interest to the sport, active recreation and/or active living communities, please send us a link and we will post it. Unless otherwise identified, all listed educational opportunities are held in Edmonton.

• WTS 2019 Sport Science Summit: July 22

• Webinar - Supporting Athletes with Concussion and Mental Health: July 24

• Financial Management for Non-Profits and Charities: September 12, 17, 19

• Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic Conference: Exercise as Medicine: September 28

• 2019 ARPA Conference and Energize Workshop & ATRA Symposium: October 24-26 (Lake Louise)

• Provincial Fitness Unit - Strength and Conditioning Trainer: October 26-27

• 2019 Petro-Canada Sport Leadership Sportif Conference: November 7-9 (Richmond)

• 2019 Western Sponsorship Congress: December 3-4

• 2020 Sport for Life Canadian Summit: January 28-30 (Gatineau)

• 2020 Shaping the Future: January 30 - February 1 (Lake Louise)

• 2020 Safe Sport International Conference: April 15-17 (Quebec City)

• 2020 HPEC Conference: April 30 - May 2 (Lethbridge)

• 2021 International Physical Literacy Conference: May 24-26 (New York)

Previous Webinars:

• Brain care Centre - Concussion Webinar Series
• Dr. Ross Tucker - Science of Sport Podcasts
• Canadian Sport Institute Pacific - Sport Performance Speaker Series
• Sport for Life
• PLAY Alberta
• Sport Law & Strategy Group
• SIRC Sport Governance Series
• Ottawa Sport Council
• Charity Village

Additional professional development opportunities:

• NorQuest College offers a non-credit Not-for-Profit Accounting Fundamentals
• Volunteer Alberta provides a list of workshops, seminars, courses, and webinars throughout Alberta.
• Sport Medicine Council of Alberta offers courses on athletic injury management, sport taping and strapping, and nutrition.
• NCCP courses in Alberta - click here to download the current schedule.
• Check the SIRC Conference Calendar for additional national and international sport-related conferences.
• Physical Literacy workshops
• The Brain Care Center has designed free quarterly educational presentations to help individuals gain an understanding of concussion and its effects.
• Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission's Gaming Information for Charitable Groups provides essential information to groups that conduct, or want to conduct, charitable gaming activities like bingos, casinos, pull ticket sales or raffles. These courses are available in a workshop setting or online.
• Sparesmarts.ca, a calendar of learning events for not-for-profit organizations in the Edmonton area.
• bloomerang, these free, educational webinars are open to the public, and are recommended for any nonprofit staff member or fundraiser.
• Find a course, class or workshop in KnowledgeConnector.ca offered by over 75 Alberta based learning providers.