Rooted in Practice: Entrepreneurial Pathways for CYC's and Social Workers

Please Note: this is a free live event and seats are limited, so register early.

Are you a Social Worker or Child and Youth Care Practitioner ready to move from employee to entrepreneur?
Maybe you’ve created powerful tools, resources, or ideas—but you’re not sure how to get them into the hands of your ideal audience. Or perhaps you’re feeling the pull toward private practice and new possibilities, but you need guidance, clarity, and a supportive starting point.

If this sounds like you, you’re exactly where you need to be.
This free webinar is your first step toward transforming your professional experience into opportunity—rooted in relational practice, purpose, and possibility.

Join us and begin shaping the practice you imagine, with support every step of the way

Learning Outcomes:

• A primer to create steps to a private practice
• How practitioner to entrepreneurship can develop beyond traditional private practice
• Ways to transfer your practice strengths into real service offerings with income pathways exploration
• First steps for building a values-aligned, relational entrepreneurial identity
• Next: Learning opportunities through upcoming RelationalWise micro-courses

Presenter:

Professional Bio – Deb Cockerton, BST, CYCS PGDip

Deb Cockerton has been a dedicated practitioner in the Child and Youth Care field for more than 48 years, bringing a depth of relational expertise, practice wisdom, and community leadership to everything she does. Since entering private practice in 2015, Deb has provided counselling and support to children, youth, and families through her Peterborough-based office. She is the co-owner of Otonabee Family Counselling Centre, where she has successfully mentored and onboarded five Child and Youth Care Practitioners into their own private practices under the OFCC umbrella.

As an advocate for professional growth within the field, Deb founded CYC Assets, a platform that hires Child and Youth Care Practitioners to deliver webinars and training to their peers. She is also the creator of the CYC Professional Development Tracker App, a tool designed to help practitioners document and organize their learning across the CYC Domains of Practice: https://pdtrackercycassets.ca.

Deb is a founding partner of RelationalWise, along with Heather Sago, an initiative dedicated to strengthening relational practice through training, consultation, and professional development. Their work across multiple ventures reflects their commitment to elevating the CYC and Social Work professions, fostering practitioner confidence, and expanding opportunities for practice-based entrepreneurship.

Who Should Attend?

1. Those in the social service field who are curious and seeking to explore the steps for establishing a private practice and/or scope of entrepreneurship.
2. Those wanting support, mentoring and networking on their journey.
3. Those who are intrigued by the prospect of establishing a supervisory role with others.

Domain of Practice: Professionalism

Knowledge Level: Novice - Participants will have limited knowledge of this topic

What can you expect from a RelationalWise webinar

These webinars are designed to feel like a workshop; you are welcome to participate in activities, ask questions, and actively engage with your facilitator and other webinar attendees