Active Allies is a virtual, cohort-based course for leaders and professionals—including engineers, geoscientists, CPAs, CPHRs, and safety professionals—ready to turn intention into action.
This program equips participants with the practical tools, inclusive language, and courage required to embed equity, inclusion, and reconciliation into daily decision-making and ethical professional practice.
Active Allies training empowers learner to shape workplaces where everyone thrives!
Evidence-based Learning
To learn more about the evidence-based Active Allies course, watch this short video.
Curious about Active Allies?
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Allyship is a practice of inclusion where—through listening, learning, and reflection on personal experiences and privileges—people actively support historically marginalized persons and communities in achieving their full potential
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Participants earn up to 10 hours of verifiable professional development credits, including an hour of ethics discussion, which is an annual requirement for many professionals!
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Our workplaces and professions are changing to welcome equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). Do you understand your role in supporting EDI or Truth and Reconciliation? Active Allies do!
Active Allies participants can:
articulate their motivation to support a variety of equity-deserving groups—including women, Indigenous peoples, radicalized persons, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ people and those at the intersections of these groups,
engage more frequently and confidently in workplace conversations around equity, diversity, and inclusion, and Truth and Reconciliation, and
develop and enhance a variety of essential allyship skills.
The Active Allies course was created as part of the 4-year Activating Allies research project.
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During the 6-week Active Allies course, a cohort of participants progresses through 8 course modules and 1.5 hours of professionally produced video content. Because the Active Allies learning environment is online, people can join from across Canada.
With a total weekly commitment of 1.5 hours per week, learners will first complete 30 mins of guided learning through the Active Allies course online content. The online learning content establishes a common ground of knowledge and builds their confidence to engage in conversations about gender, race, and more. Then once a week, we will gather online for a 1-hour group discussion. Our facilitated group discussions are a safe place to deepen participant’s understanding and practice their allyship skills.
We are all at different places in our understanding but together we can all learn to be active allies.
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Everyone! No matter where you are in your understanding of equity, diversity, and inclusion, Active Allies will expand your awareness and support your development of new skills through our curated resources, self-reflection activities, and facilitated group discussions.
Because we value diversity, we welcome organizations to send a group of employees who represent a variety of genders, racial groups, abilities, leadership levels, sexual orientations, gender expressions, and so on.
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The next Active Allies cohort will run:
October 5 - November 13, 2026
January 4 - February 12, 2027
March 28 - May 7, 2027
October 4 - November 12, 2027
Reach out to us if you would like to schedule additional offerings.
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Connect with Jocelyn to discuss group or custom offerings.
What Our Participants Are Saying
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“The most impactful part [of the Active Allies course] was the group discussions. While the topics to be studied every week were the conversation, it was interesting to hear others’ perceptions or learnings from the topics and gain new perspectives.”
Active Allies Participant
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“I needed the education pieces [offered by Active Allies] to feel comfortable enough in my knowledge to have discussions with others.”
Past Participant
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“Seeing people in management positions taking this course seriously to pass knowledge down to their employees [was the most impactful aspect of Active Allies].”
Past Active Allies Participant
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🎙 Podcast Feature: “Allyship: Showing Up Even When It’s Hard”
In this insightful conversation, Dr. Jocelyn Peltier-Huntley dives into the complexities of allyship—what it truly means, why it matters, and how to navigate the challenges that come with standing up for equity, diversity, and inclusion. In conversation with Campfire Kinship founder, Gayathri Shukla, Jocelyn shares real-world strategies for fostering inclusive workplaces, practical ways to support underrepresented voices and the importance of showing up—especially when it’s difficult.
Listen now and learn how to be an active ally in your workplace and beyond!
Building Active Allies in Mining
In this article, Jocelyn shares about how a course that began as a research project in mining seeks to empower professionals to develop allyship skills and foster inclusivity.
By Ashley Fish-Robertson
January 30, 2025