Conflict-Competent Leadership for Community Policing Program
Course details
2025
| Session(s) | Location | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course 1 English | Ottawa | 2025-10-07 | 2025-10-09 |
| Course 2 English | Virtual | 2025-12-03 | 2026-02-04 |
| Course 3 English | Ottawa | 2026-04-14 | 2026-04-16 |
| Tuition |
|---|
| $6,500.00 |
Notes
- Accommodations are offered to course participants. Our rooms are subject to availability and the request must be indicated on the course registration form
- Meal plans are offered to course participants. The specific meal plan must be indicated on the course registration form
- Travel grant funding is available to our non-federal law enforcement agencies
Description
The Canadian Police College (CPC), in partnership with the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution (CICR), is pleased to announce the continuation of the Conflict-Competent Leadership for Community Policing Program. Throughout this highly experiential program you will learn and practice comprehensive skills to address complex conflicts, both inter-personal and group. The result will be an alignment of values (personal, interpersonal, organizational, and community) so that you can reduce barriers, foster trust, increase connectedness, empower others, build solidarity, resolve issues, and contribute directly to social cohesion.
Format and delivery
- Delivery setting
- Online self study, virtual and in person/Attendance/participation is mandatory for all segments
- Span of program
- Total of 52 hours over a 4-6 month period (as noted below)
- Class size
- 16 Students
- Course 1: Becoming Conflict Competent
- 3 days (24 hours) in person at the CPC Ottawa - honouring dignity, developing self-awareness, empathic dialogue; mutual understanding, assessing conflict, facilitating empowered interventions, holding safe neutral space, understanding emotion
- Course 2: Learning Community
- 3 hours of virtual group sessions-(delivered once per month for 1 hour each), plus 1 hour of individual one-on-one coaching to continue to deepen the learnings and share experiences. There will be a theme for each of the 3 sessions that emerges throughout the in-person training, such as: the principles and role of a third-party neutral; challenges in facilitating dialogue; group intervention methodologies; guidelines (approach, purpose and accountability)
- Course 3: Group Interventions for Community Peacebuilding
- 3 days (24 hours) in person at the CPC to learn mapping stakeholders; group intervention methodologies/approaches; addressing challenging behaviours; de-escalating conflict; balancing power; building trust; group planning; fostering consensus resolutions.
Learning outcomes from the interpersonal and group perspectives, you will hone your ability to:
- understand and assess multiple-facets of conflict
- intervene effectively in conflicts
- build trust between polarized groups
- lead collaborative decision-making and community peace-building
- prepare, support and empower participants to solve their own conflicts
- tap into multiple approaches as necessary
- act as a model for peace
Eligibility and mandatory requirements
- This program is offered to managers, senior managers, and executives of law enforcement and government agencies
- Police officers working with community groups may be considered by a) demonstrating the benefit for their agency in a one-page letter and b) submitting a letter of support from their manager
- Acceptance or refusal is at the discretion of the Canadian Police College
Assessment
- Participation in all activities
- Re-testing/re-evaluation is conducted at the discretion of the program instructor
Optional Add-On ($)
People who have completed the program may enrol in a supplementary Community Peacebuilder program for an additional fee. It consists of the mentoring/leadership of a CICR senior practitioner working with your agency to deliver a joint community peacebuilder program and a specific at-risk community at the local level. It is a series of local level activities (virtual and in-person) such as: stakeholder identification; joint planning committee; series of community interventions; shared dialogue; 3-day joint Community Peacebuilder Training. Candidates must have first completed the three courses in the program and seek a proposal from CICR.
Contact
For more details or other information about the course, please email cpc_registrar-registraire_ccp@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.
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