Facilitating Change

The past few months have found me taking a larger leadership role in the groups and Association, facilitating workshops and organizing trainings. I love this type of work as it lets me work in a variety of settings, meet new people, and help them realize goals for improving their communties. I have recently had the chance to lead workshops on health promotion messaging, computation, decision making, and elaboration of proposals. Because the workshops tend to be varied, I often find myself researching topics before sharing them with the women. I then work with them to find practical ways to apply this knowledge to their every day life--- by far my FAVORITE part!

Facilitating finds me working in all sorts of settings: from offices, to computer labs, to porches, to homes. This workshop was a training on how to write proposals that was held in the president´s home in Triunfo, Honduras. Thirteen women from 5 communities came to learn how to create grant proposals to advance their groups´particular projects. We covered a lot of ground in 5 hours and with the help of a few¨dynamicas¨ like ¨Simon Says¨ and yoga (!) people stayed involved and engaged till the end.