Our Training Center was established in 2023 as a place where people can develop key skills and build their capacity on a personal and professional level. While our center has offered a variety of programs since opening, we have highlighted a few of those programs below. If you would like to know more, check out the annual report at the bottom of the page to see specifics about last year!
English Clubs
The Omega Training Center offers a variety of intermediate and advanced English clubs, which have included life skills, Canadian culture, movie discussions, and board games. The wide variety of content enables students to practice and improve their English while engaging in new topics.
Trauma Healing Groups
OTC’s Trauma Healing Groups offer a safe space for those who have gone through challenging or traumatic experiences to learn about tools to manage stress and trauma. In these groups, participants are invited to go deeper and share their stories while they learn practical tools to heal.
Personal Development Course
Our personal development course offers participants a chance to develop skills and character that will impact them in every sphere of life – at work, in their professional relationships, and at home with their friends and family. We cover topics such as
trust, team work, vision, mission, values, and servant leadership, and provide opportunity for coaching sessions to talk through the application of what they are learning.
Business Course
Our Business courses give participants the basics of writing their own business plan and the tools they will need to take to get their business going – and succeeding. Participants receive feedback as they go through each step of the planning process, from strategy to budgeting to everyday tasks.
More than a business: “bringing happiness, joy, and music”
“Music can bring us closer to one another,” Jawad says. “Today, whether you are a Tajik or an Afghan, when you hear a song from Adele or Elvis Presley or whoever it is that you know, even if you don’t know what they are saying, you still feel things. You are a little more joyful,…
Husna’s story: realizing her vision
Husna – a recent graduate from Omega’s Personal Development Course – is warm, charming, and easy to talk to – but she says that hasn’t always been the case. It’s only in the last few years that she has become the person she is today. “If there was something social, I tried to avoid it,”…