Nobody’s Perfect Parenting Train the Trainer National Event!

Do you have:

• Experience as a Nobody’s Perfect Facilitator?
• An understanding and knowledge of the principles of adult education?
• Experience and knowledge in participant-centred approaches to adult education?
• Experience facilitating in a variety of different situations?
• Experience leading others?

Join us!

By becoming a NPP Trainer, you may have the opportunity to be a contractor for other agencies and provinces!

When: 4 days June 2, 3, 4 and 11th 2026 (9:00 am to 4:00 pm CST)

Where: using Zoom

Who: Only experienced NPP Facilitators

Cost: $745

Objectives

•To ensure that trainers understand of the goals/objectives and key concepts (adult education, participantcentred approach, experiential learning cycle) of Nobody’s Perfect

• To enable trainers to become familiar with the various Nobody’s Perfect training materials

• To enable trainers to practise methods and activities designed to help facilitators learn in a group - both in person and virtually

• To give trainers the opportunity to plan a Nobody’s Perfect session for facilitators - both in person and virtually

You will be enrolled into the the new Families Canada Learning Portal as a participant of this training. We will give you the tools ready to lead both kinds of trainings! In person and virtually!

Meet your Master Trainers!

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)!

creating-connection

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.