+ This is NAMI Smarts: Telling Your Story, the foundation module in NAMI’s Prep: slide 1 grassroots advocacy training series. We'll talk about why advocacy for Have workshop Approx. 5 min mental health care is so important and the power of your story to materials ready at Core Concepts influence others. Then, we'll guide you through writing your own powerful seats. A folder is Introduction and goal story in seven short steps. helpful. Caution about readiness to When you leave this training, our goal is that you take with you a version Worksheet: Pre- share story; if you’ve of your story that you can use to raise awareness, to inspire others and, and Post-Training experienced profound loss above all, to influence policy makers. Evaluation Affirm participant My name is [insert name] and I will be your teacher today. And helping us Start the workshop readiness to begin training today is [insert name]. If you need help during this training, please let on time. [Helper’s name] know. Pre-training evaluation form Helper or Teacher: Before we begin, that you will be writing about I’d like to caution you Help participants and sharing your story in this training. If that is something you don’t feel get seated quite ready to do or if you find that your story is triggering grief or Advance overwhelming you, please let our Helper know. He/she will assist you. PowerPoint slides We hope you’re excited about this training. Are you ready to join us? Help participants [Wait for a response, if appropriate.] Great, we’ll get started. find evaluation To begin, please take out your pre- and post-training evaluation form form and fill in and spend half a minute filling out the first column for question one column for and two only. You will fill out the rest of the evaluation form at the end of question 1 and 2 the training. [Give your participants less than a minute to fill out the first two questions.] Most of you have probably been in trainings or workshops before. And slide 2 you may realize that trainings don’t always translate into doing things differently. Approx. .5 min Total time: 5.5 min
+ slide 1 Approx. 5 min Core Concepts Introduction and goal Caution about readiness to share story; if you’ve experienced profound loss Affirm participant readiness to begin training Pre-training evaluation form This is NAMI Smarts: Telling Your Story, the foundation module in NAMI’s grassroots advocacy training series. We'll talk about why advocacy for mental health care is so important and the power of your story to influence others. Then, we'll guide you through writing your own powerful story in seven short steps. When you leave this training, our goal is that you take with you a version of your story that you can use to raise awareness, to inspire others and, above all, to influence policy makers. My name is [insert name] and I will be your teacher today. And helping us today is [insert name]. If you need help during this training, please let [Helper’s name] know. Before we begin, I’d like to caution you that you will be writing about and sharing your story in this training. If that is something you don’t feel quite ready to do or if you find that your story is triggering grief or overwhelming you, please let our Helper know. He/she will assist you. We hope you’re excited about this training. Are you ready to join us? [Wait for a response, if appropriate.] Great, we’ll get started. To begin, please take out your pre- and post-training evaluation form and spend half a minute filling out the first column for question one and two only. You will fill out the rest of the evaluation form at the end of the training. [Give your participants less than a minute to fill out the first two questions.] Prep: Have workshop materials ready at seats. A folder is helpful. Worksheet: Pre- and Post-Training Evaluation Start the workshop on time. Helper or Teacher: Help participants get seated Advance PowerPoint slides Help participants find evaluation form and fill in column for question 1 and 2 slide 2 Approx. .5 min Total time: 5.5 min Most of you have probably been in trainings or workshops before. And you may realize that trainings don’t always translate into doing things differently.
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