It was probably daunting and implausible for all of us, but step-by-step we completed it! Involving professionals from different backgrounds, experience and organizations in one trainer group, while they were cascade training to their own staff, was a great challenge. On reflection, and looking at the evaluation findings, several factors had to be put into place – this was never going to be the case of a prescriptive manualised programme. If anything, the manual was informed by the trainers and the learning process.
Gelling together before adapting to the different needs of their staff group, relating to psychologists-caregivers-cooks among others in a single interprofessional training crack, allowing for their own growth, stamping the programme with their creativity and ideas, dealing with the emotional impact and burnout of everyday management of trauma, all in the face of organizational challenges, shifts and duties, were the key factors.
Ultimately, this was a case of combining experiential learning at individual and systemic level. To find out what actually happened:
https://doi.org/10.1177/13591045241242324
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