Interactive Workshops
Please note: Some workshops are online and some are in person. We aim for a balance between in-person and online events so that we can best accommodate as many people as possible. All our programs are free!
Click here for general information about in-person workshops.
If your workshop is being held online via Google Meet, you will receive a direct link by email. Having trouble accessing a Google Meet workshop? Click here for tips.
Workshops start right on time–you will not be able to access them until a few minutes before the designated start time, and please don’t be late.
Do you have questions?
Call 514-486-1448
or email registration@amiquebec.org
To register for a workshop, scroll down.
For family and friends of someone living with mental illness only
These are interactive workshops and space is limited, even online–this gives our facilitators the chance to personally address your questions and concerns. They are not recorded and you must register in advance. If you register and do not attend, you may be taking a spot away from someone in need.
Looking for support for people living with mental illness? Click here for our support groups.
Express Yourself!
NEW! As a family caregiver, it’s crucial to recognize that you have your own unique journey as well. This new workshop will offer you a safe space to acknowledge, express, process, and share your caregiving experience, using various types of art mediums. Importantly, no artistic, musical, or writing talent is needed.
Registration still open!
October 21, 28, and November 4, 2025
6-8pm
With Jill Grumbache
In person at the AMI office
5800 boul. Decarie, Montreal
Loss and Grief Throughout Life
NEW! When you have a loved one living with mental illness, loss and grief can take many forms. This workshop can help you navigate loss and grief and find comfort and resilience.
October 23, 2025
6-8pm
With Georgia Remond
In person at the AMI office
5800 boul. Decarie, Montreal
Young Carers Workshop (10-14 year olds)
NEW! This workshop is for 10 to 14 year olds who have a loved one who has a disability, mental health challenges, or chronic illness. We will use creative expression to explore what care means in different families, to talk about healthy coping skills and self-care, and to build confidence.
October 29, November 12 and 26, and December 10, 2025
6-7:30pm
With Oliver Fitzpatrick, Val Garriga, and Tony Alfonso
In person at the AMI office
5800 boul. Decarie, Montreal
Caregiver Groups
These groups offer an opportunity to explore how caring for a loved one with mental health challenges affects the caregiver’s experience and wellbeing. Held over several sessions, they can alleviate some of the isolation and other difficulties that are often associated with family caregiving.
The Monday group starts November 10, 2025, 7-8:30pm
The Wednesday group starts November 12, 2025, 3-4:30pm
Each group is 6 sessions
With Ella Amir
Online via Google Meet
Hands On Practice for Challenging Situations
If you have a loved one (family, partner, friend, etc.) who lives with mental illness and has difficulty managing their emotions, this group is for you! This is a practice group where we will practice Validation, using examples from real life. We will also introduce the practice of boundaries and limit setting.
November 18, 2025
6-8pm
With Sylvie Bouchard
In person at the AMI office
5800 boul. Decarie, Montreal
Facing Psychosis in Your Loved One
NEW! Supporting a loved one through the experience of psychosis can be a scary and isolating experience. This workshop will open up the space for you to share and listen to others’ experience, help you identify necessary resources, and reconnect you with a sense of hope.
November 19, 2025
6-8pm
With Carolina Bacalao
In person at the AMI office
5800 boul. Decarie, Montreal
Regulating Emotions
Do you care about someone who has Borderline Personality Disorder or difficulty regulating their emotions? In this workshop, you will learn a few strategies to help manage strong emotions in challenging situations. These tools will come in handy when your loved one is having a tough time regulating their emotions, and they can also help you find a better emotional balance.
December 9, 2025
6-8pm
With Sylvie Bouchard
In person at the AMI office
5800 boul. Decarie, Montreal
We are constantly evaluating and updating our programs. If you don’t see a program on this page that suits your needs, you can always find help at our regularly scheduled support groups or our counselling for family and friends.
Coming Soon
The programs below will likely be offered again next season. Don’t miss our program announcements: click HERE to sign up for our emails.
Aging Well With Mental Illness
Aging while living with mental health struggles or illness can present certain difficulties. We will explore ways to cope with challenges and how to manage difficult emotions. People living with mental illness aged 55 years and over are welcome.
Aging While Caring for Others
Getting older while still having to take care of a loved one with mental health challenges can be difficult. This 3 part workshop can help.
Anger and Caregiving Relationships
Anger is an important emotion to explore and understand within the caregiving relationship. This workshop will help you build a greater understanding of anger and your relationship to the emotion and to your loved one.
Back to the Drum
AMI-Quebec is partnering with the Indigenous Health Centre of Tiohtià:ke to offer a series of drumming sessions–an opportunity for Sixties Scoop survivors and their descendants to rekindle, or begin, their relationship with the drum.
Beading Workshop for Indigenous Youth
NEW! A collaboration with the Indigenous Health Centre of Tiohtià:ke, this workshop is for all Indigenous youth aged 8-25 to explore beading. Make your own orange shirt pin for September 30th.
Boundaries & Setting Limits
Caregiving relationships challenge everyone involved in discovering what’s acceptable and what’s not acceptable within the unique dynamic. The aim of this workshop is to identify these limits and learn to communicate the boundaries necessary to protect both the relationship and the caregiver.
Caring for a Friend or Family Member
Being there for someone through ill health or mental health struggles isn’t easy! This workshop explores what we can do to help, when it becomes “too much”, and the power of being in community with other caregivers.
Caring Kids: Expressing Big Feelings about Home
This workshop is for kids aged 5 to 12 who have a loved one who has a disability, mental health challenges, or chronic illness. We will use creative expression to explore what care means in different families, to talk about healthy coping skills and self-care, and to build confidence.
Coping Skills
We cope all the time. Awareness of how we cope can increase our ability to notice when we engage in defensive patterns and move towards practicing new skills that will provide us with more safety, peace, and general wellbeing.
Creative Expression
It can be difficult to care for a loved one who is living with mental illness. With SoulCollage, you will use your intuition to create small collage cards and then learn how to “read” your cards to discover what personal and hidden meanings your card reveals to you.
Dear Young Carer
Have you ever felt like a parent to your parents? You may be (or have been) a young carer. This workshop will be a safe space for participants to express themselves creatively in order to find meaning in their experiences.
De-escalating Conflict
This workshop explores de-escalation techniques and how to engage mindfully in conflictual situations. It will encourage self-awareness and you will develop insight into effective communication techniques in conflict situations.
Exploring Your Part in Relationships
Would you like to explore YOUR contribution to your relationship with your loved one who lives with mental illness? Would you like to explore HOW these contributions impact your relationship?
Finding Hope While Caring for Others
Loss is an inevitable and painful part of life. In the relationship between a family and their loved one with mental illness, experiencing loss can be complicated. In this workshop, we will identify and name losses, situate participants within their own grieving processes in relation to loss, and learn about acceptance which leads to healing opportunities.
How to Make a Zine
Join us to learn how to create your own Zine! Zines are self-published collections of text and/or images on a theme. This workshop is open to all young family and friends of people with disabilities, chronic illness, or mental health challenges.
Introduction to Borderline Personality Disorder
This introductory session will provide basic knowledge on Borderline Personality Disorder: what it is, what are some of the challenges, and what can be done to reduce conflicts. You will gain a better understanding of the condition and how to cope.
Meditation
How can we gain the strength to work with life situations that are difficult and stressful? This workshop will use meditation to help family caregivers get in touch with their unknown strengths and develop their resilience.
Mental Wellness for Caregivers
Stress, feelings of isolation, and guilt come up often as we look out for someone in ill health or struggling with their mental health. This workshop will explore how you can build your resiliency and find your wellness practices.
Mindful Art: Watercolour
It can be stressful caring for a loved one who is living with mental illness. In this Mindful Art workshop you will learn a fun and easy way to create colourful watercolour artwork that promotes relaxation, mindfulness and self-care. All levels and abilities welcome; no art experience required.
Stress Management
Caring about someone who lives with mental illness can take a toll on your physical and mental well-being. Join us for some tips and resources and an interactive discussion that will help ease your stress level.
Write From Your Heart
Write From Your Heart is an 8 session writing workshop in which we use writing to express feelings and then share what we wrote with the group. The workshop provides a safe and welcoming space that promotes healing, support and empowerment through writing, reading our words and deep listening. It’s about self-expression, not about being a talented writer.
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