November 28, 2002

The Six Day Workshop

Our Graduate Diploma Six Day workshop is over. What a week! The last day was spent with the participants doing their presentations, which is usually viewed by them as the hardest part of the program. This year we included video feedback - we wanted everyone to see how useful this can be and that seeing oneself on the video screen is not as bad as you might think.

Each participant was required to prepare a 15 minute session on a given topic (one that is usually included in the prenatal program). They have to formulate their learner outcomes and devise a teaching activity that will appeal to a variety of learning styles whilst enabling the other group members to achieve the stated outcome. As well as this, they must deal with the group’s interactions and responses, using the principles of adult learning and the group work skills that were explored earlier in the week. It is a tall order, and one they all tackled with a great deal of commitment.

There were many laughs along the way and some very valuable learning occurred as we viewed the tapes and gave each other feedback on the various performances. So much of the effectiveness of prenatal education is tied up in the ability of the group leader (educator) to handle the needs of the group members, whilst effectively covering the information is clear, concise and non-threatening ways. These are skills that come with practice, built on a foundation of awareness of their importance, and I hope that these participants have now grasped some of these essential basics. The day was a most successful and capped a very stimulating and exciting week. A long rest will be next on the agenda for us all, to let the lessons learned sink in and to give everyone a chance to catch our breaths.

For Cassandra McBurnie, my co-presenter, and myself, next week we start preparing for our next week long workshop in a similar vein - this time for the Bachelor of Midwifery students at Monash University, for whom we are providing a full elective on Childbirth Education. This workshop is in January, and we are looking forward to this next challenge with gusto.

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