Overview
Additional reading and activities may be assigned before and during this training. The work outside of the online training will take no more than two hours.
Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World certified facilitator training is the prerequisite for the Getting Ahead While Getting Out and Getting Ahead in the Workplace certified facilitator trainings.
March 13 and 16, 2020, 11am – 2pm Central
Training Prerequisites: Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities
Note that these events occur on two non-sequential days.
Become a certified Getting Ahead facilitator and help under-resourced individuals to:
- Take charge of their lives
- Complete a self-assessment of their own resources and make plans to build them
- Develop a series of mental models to examine their own lives and create new future stories
- Help stabilize their lives
- Investigate the impact that poverty has had on themselves and their community
- Use this information to build resources for a better life and community
Facilitator training includes the following topics: philosophy, theory, motivation and incentives, long-term support, mental models, content and process, and practice sessions. Additionally, you will receive:
- Overview of Getting Ahead PowerPoint slides
- Preparation to facilitate Getting Ahead groups
- Personalized follow-up coaching
- Getting Ahead workbook and Facilitator Notes for Getting Ahead (the set)
If it has been longer than one year since you have participated in a Bridges Out of Poverty workshop or listened to the audio workshop, then you will need to either attend the workshop again or listen to the audio workshop to be fully prepared for the Getting Ahead facilitator training.
Recertification
Trainers must recertify every two years by December 31st of the second full year following certification. Recertification may be done online or as an on-site workshop (only with sufficient demand).
Prerequisites
Participants must have attended a Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities workshop.
Unable to attend these workshops? Fulfill the prerequisite by listening to the Bridges Audio Workshop, an audio recording of the workshop. Use the discount code BRIDGESTRAINER at checkout to receive 50% OFF the Bridges Audio Workshop Kit.
Update
Getting Ahead in a Just Gettin’ By World will join Getting Ahead While Getting Out and Getting Ahead in the Workplace as a certified facilitator training.
Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World certified facilitator training will serve as the foundational work for:
- Getting Ahead While Getting Out certified facilitator training
- Getting Ahead in the Workplace certified facilitator training
Individuals seeking certification to facilitate the Getting Ahead While Getting Out classes will register for and participate in:
- An online or in-person Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World certified facilitator training.
- An additional three-hour training by the authors of the curriculum (additional fee will apply).
Individuals who wish to be certified to facilitate the Getting Ahead in the Workplace class will register for and participate in:
- An online or in-person Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World certified facilitator training.
- An additional one-hour training by the author of the curriculum (additional fee will apply).
To learn more about the distinguishing characteristics of Getting Ahead and the Getting Ahead series of books, please click on this link.
Please note that, if you are registering within five business days of this event, you will be charged for expedited shipping of the training materials. Please contact Gail Gibson at ggibson@ahaprocess.com or (281) 502-3006 to provide payment information for the expedited shipping.
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