All Courses

Crucial Conversations helps stewards identify and navigate high-stakes situations by teaching dialogue skills that restore safety and foster productive communication. Learn to achieve mutual objectives with respect, making these techniques applicable in both professional and personal contexts for effective communication in critical situations.

Embodying Your Practice is delivered by educators Anita Chari and Angelica Singh of Embodying Your Curriculum. The course introduces the foundational skills of trauma-informed practice to help settle the nervous system and process the overwhelm and trauma that may be held in the body.

Do you want to learn more about worker rights, employer and worker responsibilities, and workplace safety? Join this BCNU course and gain foundational skills and knowledge of key safety concepts.

Are you a representative on your Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee who has completed the employer’s mandatory training and still want to understand more? Join this BCNU course for a union perspective to OHS.

Taken BCNU’s JOHSC course? Want to learn more about OHS Inspections and identifying workplace hazards? This course will help to develop your expertise.

This intermediate OHS course is intended to complement the foundational JOHS training and is designed for both new and experienced JOHSC worker representatives. The course is a combination of e-learning resources and live sessions to support you in fulfilling your committee representative role.

Steward Advanced is a blended learning course comprised of weekly online learning activities and four live sessions scheduled over a two-month period. It is designed as a mentorship program for BCNU stewards to reflect on the current skills and abilities they possess. Stewards will set and work towards achieving their personal goals to strengthen their skill set.

Steward Essentials is the foundational course in steward training aimed to create a consistent practice for steward work so you can build a cohesive steward team that is able to advocate for, and empower, members and uphold and protect the collective agreement.

Steward Intermediate is designed to strengthen the ability of BCNU stewards to address issues in their workplaces and support BCNU members. This blended online course looks further into the need for grievance file management and the arbitration processes while introducing labour relations tenets.