Train the Trainer

Force of Awesome Institute

You’ve heard it before: the message is only as powerful as the messenger. Perhaps nowhere is that truer than in violence prevention programming. Overworked and underpaid, many professionals in these spaces are lucky to have time to read a bland slide deck verbatim and move on to the next crisis. You got into this field because you wanted to help people—but without the tools, support, and confidence to lead real conversations, even the best intentions can fall flat. That’s why Catharsis Productions’ Force of Awesome Institute focuses on building local capacity—empowering educators, advocates, and campus or corporate professionals to engage authentically, create space for hard dialogue, and sustain meaningful culture change from within their own communities.

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Why the Force of Awesome Institute?

This “Train- the-Trainer” helps prevention professionals create and delivery impactful programs fit for their target audiences. Involving classroom instruction, peer support, and expert coaching we take participants from good to great!

Learning Points

Identify typical problems and missteps in violence prevention education
Provide educational training and tools to address the most common challenges from audiences
Examine how the most relevant research in the fields of education, psychology, sociology, and moral development apply to participants’ specific content areas
Engage professionals, advocates, student leaders, campus representatives, etc on their curricular objectives and allow them to demonstrate tactics
Facilitate peer feedback and discussion surrounding initiatives
Provide expert coaching to optimize both curricular design and execution to improve participant skillset and efficacy as educators

WHAT ELSE?

Can be conducted in multi or single day formats depending on number of participants, curricular goals, and budget
Can be conducted virtually or in-person for your institution or you can join us for an online event we host internally
Program is accepted by the National Advocate Credentialing Program (NACP)® as six continuing education (CE) hours toward their CE renewal requirement
Can be combined with customized programs and consulting to meet more unique and specific needs.

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