Nobody's Perfect Parenting Program Facilitator Refresher Workshop

Welcome to the Nobody's Perfect Parenting Program Facilitator Refresher Workshop!

This online event is designed to refresh your skills and knowledge as a facilitator for the program. Join us for a day of learning, sharing, and connecting with fellow facilitators across this nation! Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, this workshop will provide you with valuable insights and tools to enhance your facilitation skills. Don't miss this opportunity to improve your practice and make a difference in the lives of parents and children. Register now and get ready to take your facilitation to the next level!

This Nobody’s Perfect Refresher Workshop is for trained Nobody’s Perfect Facilitators who want to review the key principles of Nobody’s Perfect and feel confident and motivated to deliver parenting programs in fun and meaningful ways.

Tuesday January 13 2026

Pacific Time - 7:30 - 2:30

Mountain Time - 8:30 - 3:30

Central Time - 9:30 - 4:30

Eastern Time - 10:30 - 5:30

Atlantic Time - 11:30 - 6:30

Newfoundland - 12:00 - 7:00

Cost: $125.00

Early bird - register before November 30: $99.99

"It was a great way to spend the day! Enjoyed the break out sessions with other like minded facilitators."

"the refresher got me excited to lead a group again as it has been a while since I've done it and the learning portal is such a good resource to have."

-participants

This refresher will give participants an opportunity to:

• Review key Nobody’s Perfect concepts.
• Enhance awareness of the roles of a facilitator.
• The Head, Heart, Hand approach to guide and monitor programs.
• Increase knowledge on principles of adult education.
• Provide opportunity to share and network with other facilitators.
• Fun and interactive ways to engage parents.

Participants will be given access to the new Families Canada Learning Portal - NPP Facilitator Refresher Resources!

Meet your workshop hosts!

Connie Herman is a Master Trainer and the Nobody's Perfect Parent Program Coordinator for Saskatchewan. She holds a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Education, specializing in Educational Leadership. Connie has been offering training, resource development, and support to family service providers in various capacities for thirty years. Her professional work, education, and experience as a parent have influenced her belief that parenting is one of the most important and most challenging roles that we have in our lives.

Carmen Paterson-Payne is a Master Trainer, Mentor, program developer, early childhood educator and adult learning facilitator. She is also a provincial Coordinator of Nobody’s Perfect Parenting (NPP), Using these skills, she travelled to Viet Nam to help UNICEF develop a training program in their holistic early childhood and positive parenting program. She took a co-lead on adapting NPP virtually with the arrival of the pandemic and that work was highlighted in a WHO (World Health Org) report. Carmen has decades of experience working with diverse communities and believes that respecting values and using an inclusive strengths-based participant-centred approach to facilitation is key to empowering learning. When she’s not working for NPP, Carmen has embarked in a new project, creating-connection, with her co-founder Connie and also runs a family murder mystery theatre company. She is most proud of being a Baba (grandma)!

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Connie Herman and Carmen Paterson-Payne have been working together for almost two decades to train people from across Canada and internationally, to become confident, participant-centred, and strengths-based facilitators. Their partnership has led them to start creating-connection, an initiative to offer high quality, experiential learning opportunities for professionals working with families to develop effective facilitation skills. As their name suggests, Carmen and Connie are passionate about creating meaningful connections through a head, heart, hand approach to facilitation.