Essential Elements of a Workshop

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We encourage you to consider creating and hosting an HIV stigma reduction workshop. They are a great opportunity for learning, capacity-building, and providing facilitation practice for community-based workers. Equally important, workshops get people talking about HIV and stigma.

Where to Start?

We suggest checking out the library of resource documents that can help guide you on how to create & host your own HIV stigma reduction workshop. The documents are inter-connected in content, and you will see prompts that indicate which other documents are related. Start with the facilitator guide that references the other workshop planning, content, and delivery resources.

Here is the complete list of resources that you can access in the Library of Workshop Resources:

Facilitator Guide – Designed especially for harm reduction workers who may not have any prior facilitation experience. The provides step-by-step support that includes five phases of workshop creation.

Resources for Workshop Planning

  1. The 5 Phases Checklist – Provides an overview of the key points to consider when creating a workshop. Checklists are useful for providing facilitators with a big picture roadmap for keeping organized.
  2. Needs Assessment Guide – Taking community workshop needs into consideration helps ensure that the design of a workshop is successful in achieving goals for learning, engagement, and community building.
  3. Menu of Learning Objectives – Helps frame learning goals and can guide workshop content design or in selecting activities.
  4. Flow of Activities Worksheet – Every workshop needs an agenda, a flow of activities that includes an introduction, activity blocks, breaks, and a closing. This worksheet can be downloaded as a Word document so you can work directly in it.
  5. Workshop Evaluation Guide – Gathering input and feedback on how a workshop went for participants is valuable information to guide what worked well and what could be improved on.

Resources for Workshop Content

  1. Selection of Presentation Slides – With over 80 graphically designed PowerPoint slides (could also be imported into free apps like Google Slides), the selection is meant to be a library of visual information support. When you’re selecting which slides to use as content, pay attention to each section’s table of contents to see which slides are connected together. The slide content you select needs to coincide with your talking points and activity content.
  2. Selection of Talking Points – The information presented in this document corresponds with material in the selection of presentation slides. The talking points are meant to support facilitators in writing their verbal script for the workshop. Verbal scripts don’t have to be memorized, but having an idea of your talking points helps keep a facilitator organized and prepared.
  3. Activity Guide – The workshop activities outlined in this guide relate to content in the presentation slides and talking points. Activities range in length of time for some flexibility in planning a workshop flow of activities/agenda.
  4. Identifying The 5 Types of Stigma (video activity resource) – This video is linked to a specific activity you will see listed in the Activity Guide called, “Name the Type of Stigma”.
  5. Answer Key-Get the Point Quiz Game – This document is linked to a specific activity you will see listed in the Activity Guide called, “Get the Point Quiz Game”.
  6. Summary Handouts – With a substantial amount of learning content in the Talking Points and Presentation Slides, you can provide participants with printed copies of these corresponding information summaries. They make handy takeaway material to support participant learning.
    • Stigma Knowledge Essentials
    • Create HIV Awareness
    • Practice Objectivity
    • Language Matters
    • Handling Conflict & Challenging Behaviour
    • Build a Practice of Communication
    • Your Zone of Inclusive Care
    • Map Out a Learning & Practice Path
  7. Activity Sheets – Linked to specific activities that can be found in the Activity Guide. They are intended to be printed and handed out to participants as activity worksheet that also act as participant artifacts to refer to after the workshop.
    • What’s Your Story
    • Your Backpack of Inclusive Care
    • Design Your Zone of Inclusive Care
    • Map the Path

Resources for Workshop Delivery

  1. Day of the Workshop Checklist – There are so many details to think about the day of a workshop and this checklist helps facilitators review a list of various workshop components to make sure everything is in place.
  2. Attendance Worksheet – When participants come into the workshop room, this worksheet is handy to use for tracking attendance, receipt of honoraria & certificate, and completion of any evaluation survey.
  3. Test Your Stigma Knowledge – This is an optional online quiz that participants can access through a QR code located in the Stigma Knowledge Essentials sections of the Presentation Slides. You will also notice it is set up as an activity which can be located in the Activity Guide.

You will find all of these resources in the next module of this kit: Library of Workshop Resources