The Super-Training for Social Action Trainers

Posted by on January 25, 2010

TRAINING FOR CHANGE

The Super-T for Social Action Trainers
June 4 to June 20, 2010 • Philadelphia, PA, United States
(plus June 2-3 orientation for overseas participants)

In the Super-T you will learn how to do more than just stand in front of a room. You will learn how to read the dynamics of a group, how to invite and work with participants’ resistance, how to maximize the debriefs of experiential activities and how to support activists to be their most effective.

The Super-T is Training for Change’s longest workshop, an intensive 17-day super-training: four workshops, plus three rest days, sequenced for maximum growth for participants.

The Super-T is for experienced and less-experienced trainers and facilitators who want to take their work to a new level of creativity and effectiveness, as well as new trainers who want to learn the major principles of this rapidly- developing field. The Super-T is ideal for a trainer’s sabbatical, for facilitators looking for inspiration and fresh approaches, and for international trainers wanting to make a study trip to North America.

WHAT MAKES THIS PROGRAM UNIQUE?

The Super-T uses direct education to take your facilitation to a new level of creativity, range and effectiveness. Direct education is our adaptation of experiential education, geared towards activists and social changers.

The Super-T has four parts carefully sequenced to provide balance, with rest in between for digestion of the new skills and knowledge. The program is rigorous, with coaching from experienced activist trainers.

Our approach offers challenge and reflection – going beyond just the mechanisms of leading a workshop and delivering information. The Super-T is transformational, with participants growing in self- awareness and facing their own limiting beliefs.

AT THE END OF THE SUPER-T, YOU’LL HAVE…

* More training tools you can use successfully
*  Increased skill in challenging situations, including tools for working with strong emotions and difficult participants
* Greater awareness of yourself as a facilitator and new ways to use your strengths more effectively
* More clarity in how to arrange activities in a powerful sequence
* More confidence in facilitating with emergent design
* A certificate of achievement as a graduate of the Super-T

ADD THESE TO YOUR FACILITATOR’S TOOLKIT

Want to add variety and greater range to the exercises you use in workshops? The Super-T will offer you…

* New and expanded tools for working with people who learn primarily through visual, auditory, or kinesthetic channels
* Strategies for how to increase a resistant group’s flexibility and openness to learning
* Increased creativity in inventing tools and activities for your kind of teaching
* An approach rooted in activism and popular education with lessons from cutting edge fields in training

TO REGISTER

To register for the Super-T contact Training for Change.  You can register and pay for the Super T online at our website at http://www.trainingforchange.org or contact Nico Amador for a registration form or any registration questions, supert@trainingforchange.org.

International participants can contact Daniel Hunter for additional support for obtaining visas and information on the international orientation, Daniel@trainingforchange.org.

COST

The fee for the whole Super-T is $650-$2,050, sliding scale based on income. The fee includes over 110 hours of training, meals on workshop days, and simple lodging in neighborhood homes for people who request it. To help determine your workshop fee, use the chart below.

Income                 You Pay
under $15,000                    $650
$15,001-$25,000                $750
$25,001-$35,000                $950
$35,001-$45,000                $1,250
$45,001-$55,000                $1,650
over $55,000                     $2,050

Keep in mind that the market value of this program is at least $4,000; we’re able to offer it for less thanks to generous donors. We know you, too, will be as generous as you can!

Scholarships are available, especially for participants of color, working class participants, and folks from the global south.  If you are interested in scholarships, just contact us at nico@trainingforchange.org.

SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOPS: June 2010

International Orientation (June 2-3)
For participants outside of North America to adjust to jet lag, North American culture

Training for Social Action Trainers (June 4-6)
Our flagship 3-day workshop -– this is our most popular training of trainer workshop. It is a core workshop for experienced trainers and those new to facilitation in TFC’s powerful direct education approach.

Adventure-based Learning (June 8-9)
Adventure-Based Learning introduces trainers to a set of team challenges that you can use to build group cohesion, explore conflict, and examine leadership.

Creative Workshop Design (June 11-13)
Creative Workshop Design lets your mind loose in a liberating learning environment. For trainers who want to design engaging, impactful workshops, teachers who want to add spice to existing curriculums, and anyone wanting new tools and design tips.

Advanced Training of Trainers (June 15-20)
In this workshop, you’ll deepen and broaden your facilitation skills.  This workshops dives into issues of cross-cultural work, handling conflict and strong emotions, and will improve your ability to design workshops on the fly (emergent design). It’s a rigorous 5-day training (must have taken the Training for Social Action Training).

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How do I register?  Fill out a registration form, available by e- mailing supert@trainingforchange.org or calling 215-776-8444.  You can also sign up at the Training for Change website at:  http://www.TrainingforChange.org

If I want to take the Super-T, do I have to take the whole thing?   No, but we highly recommend it! To be a Super-T graduate, you must take all four parts of the training. But you can also take the individual workshops separately, over time.

So I can take just one workshop instead of the whole Super-T?  Yes.  It is possible to take one or more individual workshops. But you’ll miss out on the learning community, and you won’t get the price reduction available to participants of the entire Super-T. (Please note that you can’t take part 4, the Advanced Training of Trainers, without first taking Training for Social Action Trainers.)

Can I come for part of a workshop?  No.  Because of our experiential approach, it is not possible to come late, leave early, or break in the middle of a workshop. And remember that building skills as a trainer can raise important personal issues; emotions may surface during the trainings.

What’s the daily schedule?  The schedule varies with each workshop.  But they follow a general pattern. The workshop day usually begins at 8 a.m. with breakfast and ends anywhere from 6 p.m. to midnight, depending on the training design, the energy of the participants and the group’s momentum. There are ample breaks for rest and for meals, which are included in the fee and served on site.

I have a special situation or physical need.  Can you accommodate?   Most likely. In our work we strive to work with all people no matter their physical ability or economic status.  Contact us to see if we can work with you.

If you have any other questions, please give us an e-mail at supert@trainingforchange.org

Training for Change
phone 215-776-8444 | web http://www.TrainingForChange.org | email info@trainingforchange.org
address PO Box 30914
Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States

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