A Learning Home Base for Interpreters at Every Stage of Their Career
Interpreting is not a skill you learn once and carry forever. It’s a practice. It deepens with every encounter, every setting, every challenge that asks more of you than the last one did.
The question isn’t whether to keep growing. It’s where.
The reality is that most interpreters are left to navigate this on their own. Entry into the field often comes through a single course, a short training, or no formal preparation at all, and from there the expectation is that experience will somehow close the gaps. Yet the system has not been designed to support that kind of progression. It remains fragmented, inconsistent, and often disconnected from what interpreters need once they are already working.
We built our programs around a simple belief: interpreters deserve a learning home, not a scattered collection of one-off courses, but a place where every stage of your professional journey has somewhere to go. That’s why we chose the name, The Interpreter’s Lab; to signal a constant learning and experimentation – a place where we can all connect, share and learn together.
Interpreters are at different stages in their learning and practice journey, and that looks different for everyone.
Start Your Career Here
If you’re just beginning, our foundational skills program, Interpreting in Community Settings, gives you the skills, the knowledge, the cohort, and the confidence to step into real work. Live classes, self-directed study components, practice with peers, student manuals and glossaries you’ll return to repeatedly, and a Certificate of Successful Completion that speaks to your qualifications and what you’ve earned. And that is recognized nation-wide.
DISCOVER THE FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAM TO GET YOU STARTED
Advanced Interpreter Training: Medical, Mental Health, and Court Interpreting Settings
If you’re ready to specialize, our advanced training programs take you deeper into the settings that matter most: healthcare and medical interpreting, mental health and complex care, legal and court. These are intensive, short-course programs, serious, immersive learning for interpreters who want to build real skill and deliver with confidence.
DISCOVER ADVANCED PROGRAMS IN SPECIALIZED SETTINGS
- INTERPRETING IN LEGAL AND COURT SETTINGS
- INTERPRETING IN HEALTHCARE AND MEDICAL SETTINGS
- INTERPRETING IN MENTAL HEALTH SETTINGS
A 360 wrap-around organization for interpreters who take their craft seriously.
If you want to sharpen a specific skill, right now, and efficiently, our intensive workshops are designed for exactly that. Workshops on medical terminology OR simultaneous interpreting. Targeted, practical, and immediately applicable.
Each year, we bring a different focus, or revisit what matters most, based on what you, the interpreter, need.
FOR A FULL LISTING OF UPCOMING SESSIONS, PROGRAMS AND WORKSHOPS – CHECKOUT OUR CALENDAR
Everything You Need to Grow as an Interpreter — In One Place
And if, between programs, you want to continue learning and advancing your skills and career, our professional development focussed Membership Program is a 360 wrap-around:
- monthly speakers
- subject-matter experts
- significant discounts on all advanced courses
- quarterly drop-in sessions
- masterclass access
- exam prep support
- an exclusive community of peers
Everything that a freelance professional needs to build and grow their practice.
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The Interpreter’s Lab also offers coaching, mentorship and language and skills assessments; the full arc of professional development, not just the beginning of it.
We think about this often: what does an interpreter actually need to become the professional they’re capable of being? Not just training, but continuity. Not just knowledge, but community. Not just a credential, but a career.
That’s what we’re building here. We have a place for you, wherever you are in your journey.
See you at The Lab!
