Brook Sport Consulting has just completed three facilitator training courses, two for the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) conducted over two weekends in Budapest, Hungary, and one for the International Triathlon Union conducted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The UCI courses were to train tutors for the UCI Elite National and International Commissaire Courses as facilitators of adult learning using learner centred teaching approaches. Course participants attended from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. Norman Brook was assisted during the course by Wayne Pomario from the Union Cycliste Internationale.
The ITU course saw a mix of triathlon coaches, technical officials and administrators training to facilitate learning within the ITU’s global education programme. Course participants drawn from Greece, Hong Kong, Latvia, Macau, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Taipei and Uzbekistan. Norman Brook was assisted during the course by Thanos Nikopoulos from the International Triathlon Union.
ITU Facilitators Course Malaysia 2017
Here is a selection of the positive feedback we received by email from course participants after they had returned home:
“It was a very fruitful training which I believe will help me a lot in delivering effective courses in future.”
“To attend facilitator course has been very enriching to me, for sure it will be useful in my work but also personally.“
“I wanted to thank you for the fantastic seminar, it was really eye opening. I took away a lot from these days and I hope I will be able to incorporate soon.”
“It was a very interesting and useful course; I’m sure that all the information you gave us will be used also in normal life.”
“I am very pleased for the great experience lived in Budapest where I have learned and appreciated a very high quality teaching techniques, under the didactic and human aspects. In particular, I have appreciated your professionalism and your fantastic experience, your teaching will serve me to improve my way of transmitting knowledge, competence, language expression, organizing and conducting of a course with the goal of achieving the outcome of learning by the candidates through their involvement in knowing their skills and abilities. You have been a perfect teacher, thanks to you that I feel much improved.”
“Your course was perfect. Thanks for it. Will be very helpful.”
“I really enjoyed the course and to get to know you. I am already applying, in my classes, some of the things I have learned in the course.”
“Thank you for the information and the wonderful course you have given us. The course has already helped me in both sporting and professional aspects of my life and has been a great inspiration!”
“This weekend was a life changing one for me. It may not look like it, but you don’t know how much impact it did to me.”
“As I told you and Thanos… I never learn and change so much of my way in our Facilitator course.”
“Thank you both for a truly enlightening experience, that ah-ha moment when the penny drops. There is so much to digest which I am sure will happen over time as I put the knowledge into practice. I am excited and looking forward to the journey ahead.”