Train-the-Trainers Manual

CONTENTS HOME
Introduction Overview of the Units Notes to the Facilitator Proposed Agenda
	UNIT 1: GETTING STARTED
	Activity 1: “Give and get” Icebreaker (15 min.)
	Activity 2: Workshop Objectives (15 min.) Overhead 1
	Activity 3: Understanding MHP (30 min.) Overhead 2 Overhead 3
	Activity 4: Looking at our communities (45 min.)

Activity 2

Workshop Objectives

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Introduction

It is important to establish the objectives of the workshop right at the outset, and to keep them posted throughout the training to help the group stay focused, and to ensure that the learning expectations that you established as a group will be met.

Materials

Flipchart paper & pens
Overhead
1. Workshop objectives

Preparation

Facilitators should write out the workshop objectives on flip chart paper before the session. The participants will most likely come up with the same or similar objectives in the course of this activity, but you should have the official objectives on hand to refer to.

Suggested Process

Working with the participants’ input from Activity #1, in which they stated what they hoped to get from the workshop, the facilitators can help the participants to brainstorm their own list of workshop objectives. Try to have participants describe the objectives as “To…” statements

For example:
The objectives of the Train-the-trainers workshop are:

To equip participants with the skills and information necessary to train others to use the mental health promotion toolkit in their own communities
To provide an opportunity to explore in greater detail the issues and ideas raised in the mental health promotion Toolkit
To identify the issues and challenges of implementing mental health promotion in the community

notes to facilitator:

Your role as a facilitator is to help the group maintain its focus and ensure that the workshop’s objectives are met. Participants may bring up many interesting and relevant issues in this exercise, but it might not be possible to address them all within the limited time frame of the workshop. Record these ideas and issues on a separate flip chart, and ask the group about how they would like to see these issues followed up.