Community Works has worked with trainers across all industries and addressed specific challenges of the not-for-profit sector. We strike that tricky balance of making learning enjoyable while ensuring people retain the content. These train the trainer workshops help you increase your capacity to engage your learners with cutting edge content. The people you in turn teach will learn, they'll have a good time doing it, they'll remember the content and they'll like you for it!

1. Tune-up Techniques for Trainers
2. One Size Doesn't Fit All
3. Using Humour to Break Down Barriers & Build Bridges
4. From Bureaucratese to Evalu-ease
5. Putting Interaction into Action

Tune-up Techniques for Trainers:

Longer description:

A good trainer...	A great trainer...
knows what their learning style is	uses this knowledge to avoid falling into the trap of only training to meet his or her own style (versus their participants' diverse styles)
has a thorough grounding in adult education and popular education techniques and theories	knows how to put that theory into action in interesting and creative ways
creates an enjoyable learning atmosphere	does that plus ensures the learning sticks
makes their self look good and is indispensable	makes the participants look good and trains using a capacity building model

Community Works works with you to actively demonstrate and provide lots of reflection time for increasing your capacity to ignite dialogue, discussion and dynamic exchange. Get going, move from good to great.

Workshop/seminar length: 1 hour, 4 hour or all-day session

Group size: accommodates 10 to 25 participants

Direct benefits to participants:

• Experience hands on learning that leads to practical application in the work place right away
• Gain confidence in your training skills
• Your training will be more fun, have more impact and be more accessible to a wider audience

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One Size Doesn't Fit All!
Community Building through Conflict Resolution:

While conflict is universal, how we deal with it isn't. This workshop takes a holistic view of culture (including ethnicity, socio-economic status, sexuality, ability, gender and more), to provide participants with a framework for how to build a culturally sensitive, collaborative conflict resolution process that can then be tailored to fit their individual communities and cultures.

Longer description: Much of what we read about conflict states that there is one way to resolve all conflict. This cutting edge training takes an entirely different approach and demonstrates there are many ways to resolve the same conflict. Whether you are new to conflict resolution, want to improve your existing conflict resolution skills and/or are new to cross-cultural issues or want to improve your existing cross-cultural skills there is lots to learn for everyone. Great care is taken to facilitate a comfortable safe learning environment, with lots of room to practise and explore.

Workshop/seminar length: 1 hour, 4 hour, all day

Group size: up to 20

Direct benefits to participants:

1 hour:

• Take part in an overview of one of the key skills such as the art of asking questions, assumption busting, enhancing creativity and learning to view conflict through 3 lenses
• Discover hands on learning in one of the above skill sets that leads to practical application in the work place right away
• Gain confidence in your conflict resolution abilities
• Learn and laugh
• Receive a customized follow-up resource guide

4 hour:

• Take part in an overview of key skills such as the art of asking questions, assumption busting, enhancing creativity and learning to view conflict through 3 lenses
• Experience hands on learning in two of the above skill sets that leads to practical application in the work place right away
• Gain confidence in your conflict resolution abilities
• Learn and laugh
• Receive a customized follow-up resource guide

All day:

• Take part in an overview of the cross-cultural conflict resolution field - trends and highlights
• Gain skills in the art of asking questions, assumption busting, enhancing creativity
• Learn how to avoid the pitfalls of generalising and stereotyping
• Discover how to infuse culture in all your conflict resolving
• Learn how culture affects all parts of conflict resolution
• Experience the roles of a conflict resolution facilitator and how individual preferences influence our ability to facilitate
• See examples of cross-cultural conflict resolution processes
• Experience hands on learning that leads to practical application in the work place right away
• Take part in a chance to practise building a culturally sensitive conflict resolution process based on real life conflicts
• Learn how to judge success
• Gain confidence in your conflict resolution abilities
• Learn and laugh
• Receive a customized follow-up resource guide

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Using Humour to Break Down Barriers & Build Bridges

Quick! How do you get the attention of a large group without losing your sanity or your voice? Come to this fun, funny workshop to discover how you can use humour to inspire innovation; increase cooperation; build stronger and more effective teams; help people feel engaged and eager to learn about their diversity.

Longer description: Learn the secrets that the pros use when engaging a group of people. By understanding the techniques behind interactive education that incorporate humour you can have your staff, volunteers, board members and participants laughing and learning. Through imaginative and interactive games and exercises, you'll use humour to communicate more effectively and get people cooperating and learning about each other's differences. Experience team-building exercises that serve as needs assessment tools, diversity enhancers, and asset builders.

Caution! There are only two things missing from this workshop - absolutely no spotlighting (focusing all the attention on one, usually embarrassed, person) or group groans (activities that embarrass or make fun of) allowed. So come prepared to relax, chuckle, play and flex your muscles- your creativity muscles that is.

Workshop/seminar length: 1 hour, 4 hour or all-day session

Group size: unlimited for 1 hour and 4 hours sessions, up to 25 for all day session

Direct benefits to participants:

1 hour -

• Learn the theory behind using humour to break down barriers and build bridges and
• Gain confidence in using humour effectively and appropriately for diverse groups and
• Learn and laugh
• Receive a customized follow-up resource guide

4 hour-

• Learn the theory behind using humour to break down barriers and build bridges
• Gain confidence in using humour effectively and appropriately for diverse groups
• Practise the activities in the safety and comfort of your own workshop space and
• Hands on learning that leads to practical application in the work place right away
• Learn and laugh
• Receive a customized follow-up resource guide

All-day sessions-

• Learn the theory behind using humour to break down barriers and build bridges
• Gain confidence in using humour effectively and appropriately for diverse groups
• Practise the activities in the safety and comfort of your own workshop space
• Experience hands on learning that leads to practical application in the work place right away
• Benefit from 1:1 with the trainers
• Learn, laugh and know how to teach others to do the same
• Receive a customized resource guide for your own organization and/or program

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From Bureaucratese to Evalu-ease:

Does the idea of doing program evaluation make you want to throw your hands up in despair? Do you doubt the sanity of anyone that says evaluation can not only be useful but engaging? Well pack up that doubt and be prepared to do just that- be engaged, have fun AND learn about program evaluation. Based on, but not limited to the program logic model, you'll take out the bureaucratic red tape, put yourself in the driver's seat (or bicycle seat as the case may be) and learn to do evaluation, with ease.

Longer description: The field of evaluation is known for being full of intimidating terms and must-do's not want-to-do's. We'll take the edge off evaluation- making it fun and user friendly. Take control of your program evaluation, with confidence and ease. Learn a variety of participatory techniques that allow you to engage your stakeholders and collaborate to create a useful, feasible and educational evaluation, that can also be used as a planning tool. We'll start from the beginning and cover everything from why do an evaluation, when to do it, who should be involved, what the different methods are, how to collect and collate data and how to display your data. Your stakeholders, including your funders, will love you for it.

Workshop/seminar length: 4 hour or all-day session

Group size: accommodates 10 to 25 participants

Direct benefits to participants:

• Come away with the beginning of a program evaluation based on the program of your choice
• Discover how to engage your stakeholders, even the more difficult ones
• Learn how to display your evaluation data in a variety of ways, including the usual report and also through pictures, mapping, photos and quilts
• Create the capacity to increase your funding because you will have the tools to show the effectiveness of your program

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Putting Interaction into Action.

You've heard the latest on brain based research and know that people learn better when they are activity engaged in what they are learning. What you may not know is how to do it. Community Works can provide training techniques that help you ad interactivity to even the most seemingly non-interactive content. And we do this in safe and respectful ways with no group groans (silly or embarrassing activities).

Longer description: It looks easy when the pros do it- laying the groundwork for participants to be actively engaged. It looks awful when it's done wrong - who doesn't have a tale to tell about a show-stopping group groan? Learn the theory behind what works and what doesn't in interactivity, and most importantly, why. You'll be able to combine improv techniques and community development principles. As a result your training will be more interactive and have a lasting impact on your participants. You'll learn and laugh during this workshop and you'll have your participants learning and laughing with you.

Workshop/seminar length: 1 hour, 4 hour or all-day session

Group size: accommodates 10 to 25 participants

Direct benefits to participants:

• Experience hands on learning that leads to practical application in the work place right away
• Learn about and the link between community development and interactive training
• Your training will be more fun, have more impact and be more accessible to a wider audience

see also: Cross-cultural Training & Team-building

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