September 10, 2012

 Training for our volunteers

Pangaea trains our volunteers and equips them with the necessary knowledge and skills to help them create an enjoyable environment for our participants.

In September, we conducted two training sessions for our volunteers. The first session was conducted on 2 September. The session was aimed at equipping our new volunteers who will be running the activities at the Kashiwa-no-ha campus (Chiba) with facilitating skills.

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Yumi sharing the basics of facilitating with our new volunteers.




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Volunteers getting to know each other in the "interview game". They then had to introduce the person whom they interviewed to everyone else.



The second session was conducted on 8 Sep for existing facilitators in Tokyo to upgrade their skills. It was an opportunity for facilitators to discuss and clarify any questions they might have regarding facilitation. These questions ranged from how to deal with difficult situations during facilitating, to how to better communicate with children.  It was a fruitful session with many learning points for everyone.

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Yumi sharing with the facilitators the importance of communicating Pangaea's golden rule to the children i.e. do not do to others what you do not wish to be done to yourself.

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