Customized Offerings

At the CFD, we understand that every team and individual has unique needs and goals. That’s why we offer a range of customizable solutions designed to meet your specific educational, professional, and team development needs. Whether you’re looking for group workshops, personalized coaching, or team-based clinics, we work with you to create the right fit for your objectives.

Please reach out to Lindsay Baker, Associate Director, Curriculum Integration and Partnerships, for more information about how we can tailor our offerings to your requirements.

Looking for an engaging way for your group to learn together with our existing workshop content?

• Distributed Offerings: 3-hour sessions supporting health professionals in their multiple education roles, including teaching, education scholarship, advocacy, and academic leadership. To view our complete list of available topics, please visit our Workshop Catalogue.
• Short Sessions: 1-1.5 hour sessions. For a list of available topics, please contact us directly.

Looking to enhance specific skills or improve team dynamics?

• Writing Clinic: An interactive clinic focused on enhancing writing skills. Engage with examples that illustrate key principles of effective writing and receive personalized feedback to refine and strengthen your written work.
• Insights Discovery Clinic: A clinic focused on increasing self-awareness and understanding colleagues, fostering more respectful, productive, and positive working relationships. Everyone receives a unique and in-depth Insights Discovery Personal Profile. Using the profiles as a springboard, we work with your teams and leaders to tackle challenges that hinder peak performance, such as effective communication, management styles, sales performance and creating an environment that inspires your best work.
• Education Development clinic: An interactive clinic that helps your team apply and integrate the Reflexive Guide to Anti-Oppressive Education Development (aka “The Tree”) into your education development work.  “The Tree” focuses on the decision points across the entire life-cycle of education initiatives, incorporating best practices of curriculum development, project management, and leadership.  Your team will emerge with a much clearer understanding of the considerations and work ahead, grounded in a shared set of guiding principles and values, offering value at any phase of the development.

Seeking personalized support for your career or personal development?

• Career Development and Leadership Coaching: 1-hour individual coaching sessions focused on career growth and leadership development.
• Insights Discovery Coaching: 1-hour personalized coaching sessions designed to empower you to utilize your Insights Discovery personality profile effectively. Gain deeper insights into your strengths, communication preferences, and interpersonal dynamics. Discover areas for personal growth, enhancing your self-awareness for more respectful, productive, and positive professional relationships.

Need tailored advice to address specific educational challenges?

• Teaching for Transformation Consultations: A collaborative model where we co-create programming and resources to support your team’s learning and application of transformative education approaches. Offered in collaboration with Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education (CACHE).
• Custom Faculty Development Consultations:  Flexible, tailored support to meet your unique faculty development needs. This may include consultations to support your creation of a faculty development program.