The Rural Thought Exchange
A place for peer-to-peer learning, where people who live and work in rural places, can learn from each other to improve the quality of life.
Learning Opportunities
Blog
If you like casual reading to see some great resources in action, we will highlight key moments from our events, share links to resources and highlight ideas and concepts that might work in your area.
Events
If you like to discuss with others and share your successes and obstacles, our online events are a welcoming place to look at problems from all angles, along with your peers.
On Demand Learning
If you prefer a more curriculum-based approach, we take our event recordings, along with many resources, worksheets, and supporting materials to help guide you to solutions that will work for your community.
Social Media
If you're comfortable connecting through social media, you can find some of the same great resources on platforms such through LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, X and Instagram.
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About the Rural Thought Exchange
The vision of this program is to understand, support and inspire innovation in rural communities. We have designed our Thought Exchanges to be a unique peer-to-peer learning experience where all participants welcome new ideas. We have a thought leader to help lead and guide the discussion. Discussions afterwards on course-based platforms and online are supported by the Rural Thought Exchange team.
Over several years, we've had a wealth of knowledge from many of our participants. In some cases, these participants end up coming back as hosts themselves. The conversations, resources, questions and ideas continue to live on, informing strategy and programming across Canada. This program is supported by a network of organizations who care about rural quality of life.