Education Programs

Coady Institute offers educational courses for emerging and established community leaders with a passion for social change. Coady’s approach to adult education is practice-focused and participatory, informed by learner-centered and asset-based methods that hold the potential for both personal growth and societal transformation.

The following courses are open for registration:

Education Portfolio

In addition to courses that are currently open for registration, Coady maintains a portfolio of established courses that have been delivered successfully with partners in Canada and around the world.

These courses reflect Coady’s six-decade experience and may be offered again based on partnership opportunities, regional demand, and cohort readiness. Our annual course scheduling cycles are informed by partner collaboration, cohort development, and Coady’s commitment to high‑quality practitioner focused, adult education.

How Our Courses Are Delivered

Many courses in the portfolio are activated through collaboration with partner organizations and networks, ensuring strong peer learning, contextual relevance, and meaningful impact for participants.

Coady courses are offered on-campus at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada; off-campus in communities globally; or online.

Courses

The courses below are part of Coady’s established education portfolio and can be offered again through partnership based delivery:

Lead & Influence Change

  • Women’s Leadership in Community Development
  • Leading with Abundance
  • Leadership for Young Professionals

Strengthen Local Economies

  • Livelihood and Markets
  • Strengthening Inclusive Economies
  • Introduction to Social Enterprise
  • Social Enterprise for Inclusive Local Economies
  • Future of Work and Workers

Mobilize Communities & Movements

  • Asset-Based and Community-Led Development
  • Citizen-Led Accountability: Strategies and Tools
  • Advocacy
  • Feminist Advocacy for Gender Justice
  • Building on Abundance in Indigenous Communities

Prevent & Transform Conflict

  • Introduction to Community Peacebuilding
  • Grassroots Peacebuilding
  • Conflict Sensitive Approaches to Community Development

Teach, Facilitate & Learn Better

  • Adult Education and Learning for Community Development
  • Facilitation and Training Approaches for Community Change
  • Action Research for Citizen-Led Change

Respond to Climate Change

  • Community-Led Solutions for Climate Change
  • Building Community Resilience in a Changing Climate
  • Gender-transformative Agroecology for Climate Resilience

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St. Francis Xavier University and Coady Institute stand on the lands of Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded home of the Mi’kmaw. We express our deep gratitude and appreciation to the generations of Mi’kmaw who, since time immemorial, have loved and stewarded these lands and the beings who call them home. Colonization is not just history; it exists in the present tense. While we strive to decolonize ourselves and our University, we know there is still much for us to learn.

We are committed to doing the hard work of self-reflection and to repairing relationships with the Mi’kmaw on whose lands we reside, including embracing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action and embodying their spirit in our plans to move forward with our University.

Ms~t wiaqpulti’kl ankukamkewe’l
We are all treaty people.

Coady Institute
St. Francis Xavier University
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PO Box 5000
Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5
Canada

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