The Training of Trainers Manual - UNFPA

Day 3
Training topic
Motivational tools and techniques
Objectives of the session
To motivate participants to continue to work in the area of youth health education
and to provide a collective feeling of why this work is important.
Introduction
As a way of introducing this topic, participants are given an opportunity to talk
about the meaning of peer education work in their personal lives, in order to
explore and increase trainees’ motivations for working in the field of youth
health education.
The session continues with a discussion of tools and techniques that can encourage
young people to take health prevention seriously, whether to protect their own
health or to care for others. Examples of useful techniques and tools include
inviting a guest speaker to share his or her experience with the audience, involving
people from vulnerable groups in the programme, or showing all or part of an
appropriate film.
Exercise: Why do we do this work
Objectives
To increase participants’ awareness about their motivation for
working in peer education
To share feelings with other group members in an open discussion
session and help participants feel part of a group
45
minutes
To help participants recognize as a group that the work they
do is important
To increase trainees’ motivation to carry on that work
To encourage them to remain a member of their peer
education network
Also suitable for
training of
peer educators
Materials
A comfortable place without distractions where participants can sit
in a group
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