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29 Chatham Road
Hartlepool
TS24 8QG
telephone 01429 405596
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Contacts...
Eddie Price: 01429 284069.
Mick Thompson: 07786 126776.
Muriel Boreland: 01429 291537.
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PEP Training for Residents: Training Skills.
On 5th December 2003 Mr John Bigwood (a member of BARA - Brougham Area Residents Association) of Dyke house Hartlepool and Mr Rolf Parvin a member of RAP (Residents Access Point Steering Group) of Chatham Road, Dyke House Hartlepool went to the Novotel Hotel in Manchester City Centre to join another 20 residents of other communities throughout the UK for a PEP training weekend seminar.
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The subject of the training event was 'Training Skills'. We arrived for registration at 5pm Friday afternoon. The programme consisted of (5.10pm) Introduction to the seminar and participants Coaching exercise, which involved demonstrating to another person how to do a specific task (eg. wiring a plug, knitting etc.).
The next morning Saturday 5th December the first session of the programme started at 9.30am which consisted of i) An Overview of the Training Process. ii) Identifying training needs. iii) Evaluating training. 10.30am - 1.00pm Training Techniques which included a half hour coffee/tea break at 11.00am.
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After Lunch Saturday 2.15pm
The seminar continued with a session entitled 'Planning a training session' and 3.00pm - 6.00pm 'Preparing a training session', which included a half hour coffee/tea break at 3.45pm. Both the planning and preparing sessions enabled the participants to learn from practical experience. John Bigwood who is involved in Arts & Craft, planned and prepared a session on making Plaster sine Elephants. Rolf Parvin who is involved in Media Production planned and prepared a session on the techniques of getting the best results from a camcorder.
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The next session proceeded Sunday morning 9.30am. This session was entitled 'Final Preparations'. It involved the participants of the seminar making the final preparations for a 20 minute presentation of their own seminar of which their had planned and prepared on the Saturday afternoon. There was a short interval at 11am for coffee/tea, then the presentations began promptly at 11.15am. At around 1pm when the presentations had finished there was one final session to review the seminar and offer/recieve feed back.
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PEP Training for Residents - Training Skills seminar conclusion
Overall the programme was most informative and enjoyable. The trainers (Tony Coppellotti, Vivien Simon and Mark Lolley) were very friendly, knowledgable, enthusiastic and always willing to answer and help us (the trainees) with any queries or problems we had with the programme and the tasks we were given.
To find out more about PEP Training for Residents click on the PEP logo at the top of this page.
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| C.A.T. Communities Acting Together. 29 Chatham Road Hartlepool Dyke House Hartlepool TS24 8QG. tel: 01429 405596. Local contacts - Eddie Price tel: 07789 923565. Mick Thompson tel: 07786 126776. Muriel Boreland tel: 01429 291537. Resident Representative - Morris Nelson tel: 01429 425948. Webmaster Rolf Parvin Email: [email protected] |