2014 Edition

SESSION PLAN
Advanced Peer Educator
Day One – Session Four
Encouraging and motivating your peers

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Preparation
Course Peer Educator – Advanced Peer Educator

Subject Motivating and encouraging your peers

Reference number AP04

Duration 1 x 45 minute session

References AP04 LR01 – LR05

AP04 LR06
Training format Classroom based group work

Training aids Projector and laptop

Flipchart paper
Flipchart pens
Chocolate bars
Participant needs Check if participants have any special requirements you should be aware of

Introduction
Welcome/name of To be delivered by an in-date Peer Educator Instructor
trainer
Safety aspects Consider unit risk assessment and your duty of care to participants

Interest To introduce participants to the importance of motivating and inspiring

peers in order to help produce results and increase confidence
Objectives By the end of the session cadets will have:
 Discussed how people may have inspired and motivated others
 Discussed whether any of these ways can be used with their peers
 Practised some of these methods with other cadets in the group

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Development
Method Introduction
On the previous peer educator course we talked about how peer educators
have a great deal to offer when teaching new skills as they are able to identify
and communicate with their peers in a way that perhaps adults can’t.

This session is going to look at the way we can present information and
inspire people to achieve.

Activity
Get the group to sit around one table and put all the cards with speeches and
photographs in the middle.

Explain to the group that there are five speeches that have been split into
different parts.

The aim of the activity is to match the correct parts of the speech up with the
photograph of the person who gave it.

They will need to work as a team to do this and may need to assign a leader.
Allow 20 minutes to complete the activity.

When finished, go through the speeches and discuss the following points as
a group.
 What was the point of the speech? Perhaps to get someone to do
something, to inspire, to motivate?
 What did they like about it?
 Remember speeches can persuade us to perform negative behaviour
(for example, Adolf Hitler)

You can use the answer sheet to check the speeches are correct if needed.
(25 minutes)

Activity
Ask the group to think for a minute about a time that they’ve been motivated
to do something by another person. Ask people to contribute to the group
how they did this. It could be something along the lines of
 they cheered me on
 they told me I did a good job
 they encouraged me to do something when I thought I would not be
able to do it.
 they listened to my problems

Discuss with the group whether they could use any of these methods in their
role as a peer educator(10 minutes)

Split participants into pairs. Give one of the pair a fun size chocolate bar (or if
you prefer use something else)

Explain that the person without the chocolate bar has to convince their
partner to hand over the bar by using encouraging and motivating language.

After three minutes ask them to swap roles.

Once another three minutes are up, ask the cadets to review the activity by
asking the following the questions:

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  how did their partner do?
 did they say anything that they thought was particularly convincing?
 did they find it difficult to persuade their partner?
 how did they feel when their partner was talking to them in an
encouraging and motivating way?

Conclusion
Summarise key points Summarise by saying that encouraging and motivating peers can have a
huge impact on their self confidence.

Inspiring someone to do something that they never thought they could

achieve can really give someone a boost and help them develop as a
person.

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