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Training and presentation
I am an associate member of Restorego, a training agency that uses personal change management to ‘restore the battered ego from within’ and help individuals, groups and communities to develop and maintain positive and healthier lifestyles.
CURRENT TRAINING
I offer training and workshops in the following subjects:
Media and press relations
Basic and advanced HIV/AIDS information
HIV counselling
Experiential personal growth workshops
Since going self employed I have trained and presented for the following organisations:
Boehringer Ingelheim - Media training
Coca-Cola - HIV and AIDS awareness for employers
National African HIV Prevention Programme (NAHIP) - Media Training
The Media Trust - Communicating with ethnic minorities through the press
The Young Presidents' Association - The economics of HIV drug development
CHAPS (the Community HIV and Aids Prevention Strategy) - Pre-exposure Prophylaxis
I hope to expand all these areas of work and also combine my therapy and groupwork skills with my HIV knowledge by moving more into training
I am currently discussing a series of training workshops for patients in HIV drug resistance in collaboration with HIV resistance experts.
I am also an experienced media spokesperson and communicator, having appeared as editor of Positive Nation for BBC TV (Newsnight), ITV News, Radio 5 Live, LBC Newstalk, Spectrum Radio, the 13th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and various independent channels
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
In the past I ran training workshops for the Immune Development Trust and PACE in HIV/AIDS awareness and counselling
Between 1992 and 1998 I helped to devise and facilitate some of the Gay Men's Weeks at Laurieston Hall run by the Edward Carpenter Community. These are week-long residential personal growth experiences for gay men seeking alternative ways of relating. This culminated in a structured week on spirituality and shamanism, the 'Week of Wonders', in 1998.
I have also run workshops for the 'Alchemy' weeks run by Positively Healthy.
REVIEWS
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· ‘Excellent! A lot of fun too’
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· ‘All were very appropriate. Training room very suitable. Trainer & facilitator well-versed with the subject’
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· ‘The training session was very well-organised, delivered and the interactive practical sessions were very effective in letting me perfect my skills, voice, tone and interaction. The agenda was well-balanced.’
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· ‘Very useful day & very helpful. Role-playing was very difficult but ultimately very rewarding’
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· ‘Really enjoyed the day – felt confident in dealing with issues & feedback sessions. Agenda covered everything I needed to know and more. First time I’ve done a training course looking forward to the afternoon.'.
