Transcript Facilitator Training to Prevent Stroke in Your Community

Review from first section
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Introduction to this project
Basic overview of stroke
Stroke prevention: diet, exercise, blood
pressure management, stress
management, smoking, alcohol
Translating this knowledge into
everyday action in our lives
Facilitation
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Who
What
When
Where
How
Steps to facilitation
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Know your material
Know your audience
Choose a location that people will like
and can get to
Choose a time that works with their
lifestyles as much as possible
Plan as much as possible
Jump right in, and…
More steps to facilitation
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Don’t feel you have to know all the
answers
Use your voice and body language
Try not to do it all alone
What else?
About groups
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Introduction
Members
Stages of development
Experiential learning
Introduction to groups
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Wide range and variety
Stages of group development
Some people not group people
There can be difficult members:
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The
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talker
know-it-all
pessimist
shy one
Experiential learning
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Central to adult learning
Basis of workshops
Fancy way of saying, ‘learn by doing’
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Show how it’s done
People try it out, make mistakes, try again
Reflect on how it felt to do the activity (Did
I like it? Would I do it again? Does it
apply to my own life? How?
Organizing a prevention
activity
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Introduction
Read this section in manual
Identify an area of interest or need
Organize into small groups
Create an action plan
Brainstorming an activity
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Who’s it for?
What will happen?
What do you need?
Who can help you?
How can you reach people?
Keeping it simple, keeping it going…
Worries and wishes
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What are you worried about?
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i.e. difficult people, advertising, etc.
Having a partner facilitator
Getting backup
Learning as you go
Wrap-up
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Next steps
Evaluations
Closing exercise
How to reach us
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Self-Help Resource Centre
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www.selfhelp.on.ca
1-888-283-8806