Are you looking to provide additional or expanded services to your clients, or work on special projects but don't have adequate resources or time to do so?

Our students have successfully completed a comprehensive range of courses, cultivating skills around understanding organizations and communities and facilitating interventions in small group settings. As facilitators, they will be able to assess the situation, identify needs and develop new programs or initiatives, and help your organization build effective teams.

Their well developed interpersonal and communication skills will most likely be assets to your business or community environment.

The deliverables will be agreed upon with the organization, as part of a contract with the students.

Internship Requirements

• Students will devote a minimum of 200 hours over the fall/winter term to their placements site
• Students will engage in work that relates to their human relations training and expertise. Areas of study from which the student may draw during the internship experience include interpersonal communication, group dynamics and group process, small group leadership, program design, facilitation, organizational and/or community development, and research methods
• To ensure students have the opportunity to intervene in human systems on different levels, there are two specific requirements to be fulfilled within the internship, a group experience and an organizational project:

1. Group experience

The internship student will engage in at least one of the two following activities:

1. a) Design, implement and evaluation a 6-8 session program with a specific training or psycho-educative focus.

OR

1. b) Provide process facilitation to a group over a period of at least 8 sessions in order to improve its functioning and productivity.

The group should have a stable, continuing and constant membership of adults, adolescents or children over the age of 10. Group members must be cognitively cognizant. The key is that the participants must be capable and interested in influencing the direction of their group.

2. Organizational Project

The intern will develop and implement a project that requires him/her to gain an understanding of the organization’s functioning and that will have an impact on the organization (or department, if the organization is very large). Previous organizational projects have included: conducting research to be used by the organization, reviewing and revamping existing procedures and/or developing new ones, conducting a needs assessment of a particular client group, and working with management on organizational change projects.