ACE Introduction

Hello and welcome to your Training the Trainers Resilience and Wellbeing programme. Your programme provides 40 notional hours of learning/CPD, and is divided into 6 units. Each learning unit has embedded learning/training tasks. You will need to complete the compulsory part of each unit in order to become a certified Resilience and Wellbeing Trainer.
Your programme is a blended learning programme. This means that some of your learning will be on-line and some will be face-to-face. You have dedicated time in each environment so that you will spend time on-line before the first face-to-face session accessing various resources and completing your first learning tasks, and you will then have on-line mentoring sessions in between your face-to-face sessions. Your on-line mentoring sessions will be held in the ‘learning community’, which is situated in the on-line programme in the DISCUSSION FORUM, which is located on the right hand side of the webpage.
Programme aims
The aims of the programme are to provide knowledge and develop skills pertaining to resilience and wellbeing at work, so that your own resilience and wellbeing at work programmes can be delivered in the workplace. By participating in the programme, we anticipate that you will also develop your understanding about your own resilience and wellbeing.
Methodology
Your programme provides underpinning knowledge and practical skills that will facilitate a deep learning experience, and incorporates application to practice through simulated and reflective learning episodes. Your programme provides you with opportunities for you to engage with the resilience and wellbeing model developed and tested by Dr Dee Gray, in a number of ways. Firstly as a teaching/learning tool, and secondly as a research tool with which to collect descriptors of resilience and wellbeing.
You will also have opportunities to develop your knowledge and practice by learning through coaching.
On successful completion of your programme, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of factors that contribute to and/or lessen workplace stress for carers in employment
- Discuss resilience and wellbeing from a salutogenic perspective
- Apply knowledge within your own organisation through the development of your own programmes
- Assess resilience and wellbeing of workplace colleagues/teams
Methods
The methods utilised in your programme include guided learning and provision of relevant academic material. We utilise learning communities, repeated cycles of reflection on learning, application to practice activities, and the provision of peer-to-peer critical appraisal of learning.
Assessment
We assess your learning through learning outcomes and learning competence. Methods of assessment we use include:
- Task completion (there are learning tasks for you to complete throughout your programme).
- Observation and Q&A (we observe you during the programme and look for participation, comprehension and application of knowledge, we back this up with Q&A so we can gauge whether you have understood).
- We look to see how you are applying knowledge to your own training practice in the design and running of your own training programme.
- We also look for evidence of reflection on and development of your learning.
In the following pages you will find out all you need to know about the structure and content of the programme, the amount of time you will need to spend on each unit, and, what competencies you will accumulate. Everything flows in a chronological order.
Your programme is set out as follows
Unit One: pre-reading/viewing and preparation for Unit Two.
Unit Two: Face-to-face delivery day one. Preparation for first mentoring session.
Unit Three: Face-to-face delivery day two. Preparation for second mentoring session.
Unit Four: Face-to-face delivery day three. Preparation for third mentoring session.
Unit Five: Face-to-face trainers’ wrap up session.
Unit Six: On-site peer review visit.
Badges and certificates
When the programme is completed we review your participation and completed tasks (competencies), and award badges to our certified trainers and certificates to first level trainees.
You now need to go to the DISCUSSION FORUM and complete your profile. Either click on this link DISCUSSION FORUM or click on the Adult Carers in Employment Forum on the right hand side of the screen. Please introduce yourself to your peers, and tell us a little about your role.