Fresh Steps Licensing for in house trainers

It runs at Holwell, our residential training centre in North Devon, UK, or if you have a group of trainers to be licensed, can be run at your own training venue.

The licensing course is pass/fail and you will be given feedback as the week progresses so our final decision should not come as a surprise to you. You will know whether you are licensed before you leave on the final day.

Following your successful completion of the licensing course, you will be licensed to deliver the Fresh Steps programme within your organisation for 3 years. The licence is renewable at the end of the 3 years.

Only trainers trained and currently licensed by us are able to call themselves Fresh Steps trainers and use the Fresh Steps logo.

Selecting and licensing the best quality trainers ensures the highest quality delivery of the programme world-wide. As a potential in-house Fresh Steps trainer, you need to:

	be employed by the organisation for whom you'll be running Fresh Steps
	have the support of your organisation
	already have some training experience
	have a real commitment to personal development training
	have the ability or potential ability to deliver the Fresh Steps material
	have agreed plans for running the programme in-house
	have attended a Fresh Steps programme as a participant. If you do not have access to a standard Fresh Steps programme, contact us for details of the intensive Fresh Steps programmes which are especially useful to trainers considering becoming licensed
	be positive and enthusiastic about the Fresh Steps programme
	be open to ideas and constructive feedback
	support the 'ground rules' for running the programme - see below
	be committed to your own personal and work development.

As a Fresh Steps trainer you will be expected to put these ground rules into practice. Many of them are already accepted as good training practice. Think about the implications for you of working with each of these before you apply:

Self-nomination
Because the Fresh Steps programme enables people to develop themselves, (as opposed to training in a skill or technique) participants have to make the decision to participate themselves or be willing to be encouraged by others.

Wholistic
A big theme is work/life balance and the programme encourages participants to develop themselves outside as well as inside work.

No magic answers
The trainer doesn't tell a participant what to do with their lives. The role of the trainer is to enable participants to explore options and support them in making their own choices.

Confidentiality
Participants need to feel free to raise any issues in or outside work in the knowledge that confidences will not be repeated outside the course room and that information on individuals will not be fed back to the employer (other than an attendance record).

Demonstrate equality - maximum access
We operate an equal opportunity and diversity sensitive policy in the way we set up and deliver training. We expect licensed trainers to do the same. The practical implications of this will affect your choice of venue, your pricing policy, your presentation of the programme, your use of language and much more.

Take action - small steps
Thinking and good intentions are turned into action. The emphasis is on taking small, practical steps forward.

It's their programme
The programme is delivered for the participants and their issues and challenges, using their examples, their vocabulary and recognising the reality of their lives.

Build people up and stretch them
Everything is positive in Fresh Steps. You need to want to build people up and then to stretch them so they often achieve more than they expected or believed possible.

Networking
Participants get an enormous amount from each other during and after the programme. You will need to facilitate this aspect.

Role models - lead by example
Including lots of examples and providing good case studies of older people who have made new starts, changed the emphasis in their lives or developed themselves internally keeps the programme relevant and down-to-earth. You will also be seen as a role model so think about aspects of your life which will inspire or be relevant to your Fresh Steps participants.

Look at the selection criteria above, download the application form at the bottom of this page, complete it and send it back to us.

We will then contact you to arrange an interview with Liz Willis. In countries outside the UK, this will be a telephone interview. Your interview will be followed by a quick decision.

'Jenny Daisley's empathy, knowledge and skills are of such a high quality.' Dr Felicity Cooke, University of Cambridge.