Train Trainers to Train the World, One Trainer At a Time
Sussan Öster, Paut Struik & Jonas Wells
Room: Predikherenkerk - Thu. 11:00-12:30 am
Content
What does it take for people to gain confidence as an SF trainer, to take that step in their personal journey? Wouldn’t it be amazing if, by training more trainers, the use of SF would be even more available and widespread. We have pooled our experience in train-the-trainer programmes and made some discoveries. How it’s much more about creating a supportive community, an environment where it's ok to try new things, to trust your own skills just enough, than it is about teaching specific skills or techniques. We have also furthered our understanding of training trainers by inviting learning on many levels experientially and intellectually.
Take aways
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Reflect on your own and others SF learning process and what enriches it
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Be inspired to set up or promote your own train-the-trainer program
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Come away with fresh ideas on formats and activities for SF training
Workshop Format
Interactive workshop mostly, co-learning together as well as short presentation on what we have been learning.
Master of Social Science. Worked for 26 years in Public Health development and facilitation of groups. Always seeking the most creative, resource and goal oriented approaches. Found it in an SF-authority meeting in 2006: Jonas was the chairman. Went from SF PURE and onwards! Previous ICF PCC, also certificated in SFBC through SFLK (the UKASFP certification). Done 5-8 SF trainings for staff and leaders a year, the last ten years. Written a book about SF with adolescents in social care and several papers e.g. on how to facilitate groups of clients. Swedish publisher of SF books by Zabo, Meier, and Ghul. Developer in SF schoolbased mental health intervention and RCT research study (SIM Sweden).
South Dalarna Coordination Agency
Started out as a physiotherapist and later manager in care organisations. Came across SF in 2008 and took to it like a duck to water. Created her own business in 2009 and has never looked back. Takes on anything from coaching to training to facilitating, mainly in the field of community health care and welfare and local councils; working with front line practitioners, volunteers, team leaders and management teams. Faithful attendant to the BRIEF summer schools, intervision facilitator for the SFU (Elliott Connie). Published several tools for SF reporting models and intervision and an account of a twelve year journey with a local council turning SF (SFiO InterAction, 2023).
Started out as an anthropologist and later supporting people moving from long-term unemployment and disability benefits to work. Came across SF in 2002 and have never looked back. Started working with financing and aiding new organizing between four public sectors in 2006 through the newly formed coordination agencies in Sweden and SF was a large part of how that work evolved. Have been doing trainings for several years now as well as pursuing a PhD. Have published a book on SF presuppositions, several articles and most recently an account of how a national model to gather data on successful collaboration across Sweden was developed both with and through SF practice (Collaborative Ecosystems Between Organisations | SFiO.org).