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TOT 142-WEEK 142
“ Training through Role Play” .
Trainees learn a lot from simulation exercises and role plays. Role plays are effective tools to bring in perfect synergy between practical and theoretical knowledge. Trainees get more strengthened when a trainer stands next to them throughout the role play to monitor at least some of the role plays, and correct them and/or help them to have progress in the role plays.
It is ideal to have separate faculty for practical trainings.
On the job training:-
(a)Correcting :-Trainer corrects the person playing the role of mediator , as and when a mistake is committed.
Suggestion regarding correction should be indicated in one or two words or at the most in a single line. Trainer should not get into talking /teaching/explanatory mode.
Trainer should keep a list of all the corrections suggested.
(b) Follow up
Trainer should get the trainee play his/her role, by incorporating the corrections suggested by the trainer.
Trainer should note down whether the trainee could implement the suggestions forthwith.
( c ) Stepping in
Trainer can replace the trainee mediator and play the role of a mediator , only to demonstrate how a particular stage can be handled by the trainee-mediator.
However this is done if and only if it is absolutely necessary.
d) Reflections:
While de briefing the trainer addresses all the trainees regarding each of the mistakes committed by the trainee -mediator, and the corrections suggested along with the reasons for the same.
Thus through debriefing the trainer takes all the trainees to reflect on (i) what was done by the trainee mediator (ii) what was or what was not required to be done (iii) How it was required to be done (iv) How it was done and (v) Reasons behind.
“Be very strong… be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.”
Alberto Juantorena- Cuban Former Runner
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Training of Trainers in Mediation 