Certification training for peer trainers

Aims & objectives

-Deepen the training of peer trainers in the fields of anti-discrimination, risk and well-being education;
- Improve their soft skills on facilitation and social action;
- Strengthen EPTO's pool of certified quality peer trainers;
- Initiate a snowball effect of social change through local multipliers.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

Target group: young people involved in youth and social work who already attended an awareness-raising training on diversity and anti-discrimination and/or well-being delivered by EPTO.
Participants: 15 young people from 25 to 36 from 9 countries: Albania, Azerbaidjan, Belgium, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Romania and Turkey.
Trainers: 3 young people from 28 to 32 from Belgium, France and Romania.

Training methods used & main activities

The methods used were based on non formal education, peer training and experiential learning.
Examples:
- Icebreakers and group-building activities ("human bingo", "mission impossible"...)
- Finding common ground: "expectations, fears, contributions & needs", "supporter supported"...)
- Opportunities for practicing facilitation and getting constructive feedback from peers: activities previously lived by participants in their awareness-raising trainings on diversity/anti-discrimination and well-being
- Personal development activities: "peer educator profile", "the wheel of development"...
- Social action activities: "spheres of influence", "action planning".

Outcomes of the activity

This training enabled 15 young people to deepen their facilitation skills and their competences in 1 particular topic (diversity/andti-discrimination or well-being) in order to become certified peer trainers in the EPTO network. It was a success because they all performed their activities as facilitators really well and were in a growth mindset to practice and evolve.
More informations here: http://epto.org/content/closure-certification-training-peer-trainers-0

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was the senior trainer with the team of 3 co-facilitators ("senior" relates to the EPTO certification framework, which requires having attended several training, having facilitated a European training of trainers and having 2 letters of recommendation from 2 co-trainers). My role was to ensure that the training was matching the objectives set by EPTO, to help my co-trainers build the agenda and to give them constructive feedback on their facilitation.

I worked on this training for 5 days as a full time trainer.