The Center for Accompaniment and Recovery of Integral Development (CARDI), a social-health project carried out by Augustinian Recollects in Mexico City, completed a 20-hour course for their own trainers, a train-the-trainers event, with the presentation of a Training Manual of Themes and Formation.
February 20 marked the completion date of the 20-hour long course for facilitators (including trainers, teachers, tutors, and monitors) responsible for training and offering various talks, conferences, workshops, courses and diploma courses that are part of the training activities program of the social-health project of the Augustinians Recollects in Mexico.
Nearly twenty facilitators participated the train-the-trainers course, supported by Luis Torres, who presented a Work Handbook that all CARDI facilitators must follow when preparing their topics and setting the specific objectives of each training, provided to CARDI volunteers and the general public interested in these training activities.
Specific topics of reference included the execution of a training session plan, checklists with objectives, classes and talk management, face-to-face or virtual training … Upon receiving this instructional guide, participants also went through theory and practical examinations.
This training helps trainers broaden the horizon of their teaching and theoretical materials, and also supports them by teaching them first-hand new learning methods and group techniques, in addition to reminding and thanking facilitators for their valuable contribution to CARDI as an institution and to their students who become better prepared individuals for their volunteering work.
These facilitators now have the mission of offering CARDI volunteers and students training and information on such complex and exciting issues as management of emotions, anxiety, dialogue as a means of personal and therapeutic approach, emotional intelligence, assuming sad and shocking news, and comforting and accompanying the sick.
