Train the Trainer
Advanced Diploma in
Facilitation for HAT
What makes HAT unique is our commitment to leave a legacy with individuals and organisations via our Train the Trainer model. Following completion of the Graduate Certificate in Health Action Training or equivalent HAT Courses, it is possible for learners to embark on a further two 36-hour CPD courses Health Action Training: Issues in Health and Social Care Communication plus Person Centred Facilitation. Upon successful completion of these courses the candidate will be a fully qualified Health Action (HAT) Trainer and achieve an Advanced Diploma in Facilitation for HAT. This will enable them to teach any HAT Programme.
- The Graduate Certificate in Health Action Training
- Health Action Training: Issues in Health Communication
- Person Centred Facilitation
Information on the Graduate Certificate is available here
36 CPD Hours
This course helps participants build advanced skills in communication theory and practice, emphasising Health Action Training and Person-Centred Care. Participants examine the research evidence and theoretical frameworks required for effective communication in today’s complex health and social care settings and apply a range of creative and reflective methods to meet these challenges.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Develop and apply person centred communication skills to address patient, client, and family needs in difficult and unpredictable situations.
- Critically examine communication practices in professional settings, assessing how cultural, societal, and organisational factors curb or support person-centred care.
- Assess how self-awareness, self-agency, and political awareness enhance the impact.
- of effective person-centred communication on the quality of health and social care.
- Co-create and perform a realistic role play to explore communication challenges in health and social care.
TOPICS
- Principles and practice of effective communication: evidence-based practice; person-centred communication; factors influencing communication and behaviours; embodiment of skills, exploring shared decision-making or lack of it in health and social care.
- Communication issues in complex and rapidly changing care environments: skills to respond to challenging conversations; dealing with complaints, telehealth, conflict resolution, and robotics in modern healthcare.
- Conscious leadership for effective communication: personal leadership behaviours; developing self-awareness, inspiring others, creative personal reflection.
- Authentic simulations and challenging role-plays: creativity, innovation, centring, theatre/improv games, forum theatre, attention, intention, actions, objectives, and givens.
LEARNING AND TEACHING METHODS
As with all HAT courses, a reflective praxis is encouraged, where participants and teachers actively collaborate and co-create using a dialogical approach. Although the course outcomes are set in advance, dialogical pedagogy allows learners to engage in open discussions, enabling them to shape the agenda and influence both content and learning methods. A ‘mind‘, ‘body‘, ‘heart‘ process is used. Workshops progress from reading research and theory (mind) to movement activities (body), and close with creative reflection (heart).
Participants also make use of Zoom ‘break out’ rooms to explore scenarios relevant to professional practice and hold small group discussions and reflections. Facilitators move between groups, offering support and guidance.
Assessment
A stepped or ‘scaffolding’ approach is used for assessment in this course. Learners will be helped to develop ideas for Assessment as the Course progresses. Everyone will be allocated to Assessment Groups where sharing and consolidation of ideas occur. Assessment on this course will involve three elements;
- A 20-minute Role Play (40%).
- A 500-word rationale for the Role Play (20%)
- A 1000-word Critical Reflection (40%).
36 CPD Hours
AIM
The aim of this course is that learners will develop the knowledge, skills, experience, and confidence necessary to facilitate workshops using Health Action Training (HAT) methods and approaches.
The course weaves educational theory, drama practice, person-centred nursing, and more to explore what person-centred facilitation is and how to do it.
TOPICS
- Workshop planning, organisation, and delivery: this course will give participants opportunities to plan and deliver activities within the course in a person-centred way. This involves experiential learning (learning through doing’), and dialogical pedagogy (learner-teachers’ and ‘teacher-learners’ sharing relevant experience).
- Dynamics, principles, and values of working creatively with groups: learners will study and explore relevant principles of pedagogy to develop clear principles for safe and effective teaching and learning. These will be explored dialogically and experientially, underpinned by the principles of person-centredness.
- Practical experience and confidence as a teacher of Health Action Training: each workshop offers participants the chance to practice different HAT techniques, understand their origins, and discover the reasons why HAT employs these methods.
- Key principles of person-centred and critical/creative reflective teaching: explore a range of relevant approaches to person-centred practice, while developing their skills in critical and creative reflection.
Assessment
The assessment will have three parts.
- Individuals will annotate workshop plans with detailed notes for the activities they plan to deliver (20%).
- Small groups work together to facilitate and lead a short workshop (one hour) with the rest of the group (50%).
- Same groups will undertake a 15-minute Oral examination (30%).