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Peer Training
Emthonjeni Student Wellness has been offering core and advanced training for peer help practitioners since 1995. The training is based on the model of the Canadian-based Peer Resources Network, a leading authority on peer programme development. It includes a train-the-trainer system where participants interact with one another as peers – and as facilitators - in a series of training sessions that focus on communication and helping skills (core training) and on advanced people-helping and service delivery skills (advanced training). The purpose of this model is to assist participants to become acquainted and increasingly skilled with regard to well-researched and empirically tested peer helper training curricula and methodologies.
Please refer to the menu for more information on the train-the-trainer workshops in core communication and people helping skills, and the advanced training workshops in additional people helping and service delivery skills. The latter ‘advanced training workshops’ are aimed at implementing and further refining the basic communication and helping skills acquired by peer helpers in their core training.