General Training and Facilitation Issues
- Use the plug and play video as much as you like.
- Introduction by me.
- Didactics.
- Instructions for exercises. Repeat several times.
- Stick to the agenda and time frames.
- Don’t over talk, repeat too much.
- Don’t do Q & A, but be open to clarifications if someone raises a hand.
- Don’t get pulled into coaching on specific MFR problems.
- Acknowledge the stress of the speaker, move on.
- Refer back to LEAP and the limits of our ability to help.
- If persistent, say we can talk afterward.
- Redirect over-talkers, over-disclosers, and derailers.
- Listen, acknowledge you heard, say you’d like to move on.
- Don’t keep calling on the person, just say you want to keep moving.
- Find something good in whatever someone does in the demonstrations, then add what might be optimal (e.g., LEAP first.)
- If you get stuck on a question or issue, say you will check with the Marital First Responders creators and get back to people.
- Your personal stories can help, including your mistakes.