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This project offers a detailed overview of stroke prevention strategies, emphasizing the importance of diet, exercise, blood pressure management, stress reduction, and lifestyle choices such as smoking and alcohol consumption. It also provides a guide on effective facilitation techniques, including understanding your audience, planning, and utilizing experiential learning. Learn how to organize prevention activities, engage participants, and develop an action plan. This resource is crucial for anyone interested in promoting health awareness and facilitating group learning experiences.
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Review from first section • Introduction to this project • Basic overview of stroke • Stroke prevention: diet, exercise, blood pressure management, stress management, smoking, alcohol • Translating this knowledge into everyday action in our lives
Facilitation • Who • What • When • Where • How
Steps to facilitation • Know your material • Know your audience • Choose a location that people will like and can get to • Choose a time that works with their lifestyles as much as possible • Plan as much as possible • Jump right in, and…
More steps to facilitation • Don’t feel you have to know all the answers • Use your voice and body language • Try not to do it all alone • What else?
About groups • Introduction • Members • Stages of development • Experiential learning
Introduction to groups • Wide range and variety • Stages of group development • Some people not group people • There can be difficult members: • The talker • The know-it-all • The pessimist • The shy one
Experiential learning • Central to adult learning • Basis of workshops • Fancy way of saying, ‘learn by doing’ • Show how it’s done • People try it out, make mistakes, try again • Reflect on how it felt to do the activity (Did I like it? Would I do it again? Does it apply to my own life? How?
Organizing a prevention activity • Introduction • Read this section in manual • Identify an area of interest or need • Organize into small groups • Create an action plan
Brainstorming an activity • Who’s it for? • What will happen? • What do you need? • Who can help you? • How can you reach people? • Keeping it simple, keeping it going…
Worries and wishes • What are you worried about? • i.e. difficult people, advertising, etc. • Having a partner facilitator • Getting backup • Learning as you go
Wrap-up • Next steps • Evaluations • Closing exercise
How to reach us • Self-Help Resource Centre • www.selfhelp.on.ca • 1-888-283-8806