Tips for PDM

Workshop Trainers

The following tips should prove helpful for PDM Workshop Trainers:

1.

This manual provides a practical training process that Volunteers

and Counterparts can replicate with their communities. As you

select and make modifications to the sessions to fit your

participants' needs, try to keep this community context in mind

and encourage participants to share ways to make the content,

methods, and materials as accessible and appropriate as possible

for the people with whom they live and work.

2.

Trainers may want to designate a 15 minute time slot each day to

offer the group  tips for conducting an effective PDM workshop

with your community.  The first few minutes after lunch is a

particularly good time for this activity people tend to return

from lunch on time so they don't miss any of the trainers' secrets!

3.

The PDM training  and handouts are necessarily

generic and need to be adapted to suit local post and participant

needs. The manual offers several optional and alternative

activities, but it is up to you to creatively tailor activities to the

needs of the group and within your time allotment.

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