New and experienced trainers who want to enhance the effectiveness of their training through the use of participative learning techniques.

Every trainer needs to add new skills, techniques and exercises to his or her toolkit from time to time to ensure flexibility in meeting learning needs. Innovative, well facilitated participative exercises are fundamental tools to helping groups of individuals learn in a way that leads to enhanced performance or personal change.

This two-day workshop gives trainers the opportunity to experience and add to their ‘trainer’s toolkit’ a range of types of participative exercises while underpinning them with knowledge of learning theory and group facilitation issues and best practice.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• outline how learning styles, left and right brain preference, the triune brain model and Howard Gardner’s seven intelligences model link to the design and use of participative exercises
• explain and demonstrate good practice in creating a positive learning environment
• experience a range of participative exercises designed to achieve various outcomes
• experience and add to your repertoire energisers to alter learners’ state
• outline best practice in relation to choosing, briefing, facilitating/’leave’ and de-briefing experiential exercises
• outline the importance of positive language and precision questioning in facilitating learning