ABCD-Training-of-Trainers-Tools-July-2013

1.16. Quotations, Proverbs, Videos and Photographs
(Compiled by the Coady Institute)
Session Title
Session Objectives
Duration of Session
Resources
Training Materials
Story-Telling
Provide examples and identify ways to convey ABCD messages and themes
using multi-media
As desired
Flipchart paper
Coloured paper
Markers
DVD player or computer
Examples of Quotations, Proverbs, Videos and Photographs displaying ABCD
Principles
Introduction
People learn in many different ways so it is always a good idea to use a variety of mediums to convey
important messages. For example, one way to project the key messages of the training is to transform
the physical environment by hanging inspirational or critical quotes , poems and proverbs around the
room to introduce controversial issues to or to reinforce some of the things you want participants to
remember. You may want to leave markers and coloured paper on a table throughout the week so that
people can add to your quotes over time. You could make it a homework assignment and ask
participants to come back to the training the next day with a quote that represents ABCD for them.
These quotes can be simple or more complex depending on the participants. Some examples are
provided below and are also included in the Training Materials Guide if you want to distribute as a
handout.
Examples of quotations with ABCD messaging
Appreciation is to humans what the sun is for plants. (Frank Iversen, 2006)
The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but seeing with new eyes. (Marcel Proust,
1934)
I have a strategic plan? Martin Luther King did not say, "I have a strategic plan." Instead, he shouted, "I
have a DREAM!," and, he created a crusade. (Unknown source, provided by Kathy Wells)
Where your attention goes, your energy flows and life grows. (Brian Bacon)
When you walk with your hand in someone else’s pocket, you walk where they walk. (Unknown)
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond
measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small doesn't serve the
world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. (Adapted
from Williamson, 1992)
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