1. American Refugee Committee
WELCOME !
WORTH
“WE CAN
CHANGE THE WORLD”
Training Program
For
Women in Business
American Refugee Committee
Guinea
Welcome by Local VIPs and/or Pact Staff; Introduction of Lead Trainer; any appropriate welcoming remarks; overview of the broad goal, purpose of the training program

2. Guinea Training Objectives
Share personal successes and lessons about empowerment, literacy, micro-finance, and micro-enterprise
Understand WORTH self-help literacy model
Understand WORTH economic empowerment program and how it is different from other micro-finance models
Learn principles and practice of successful micro-enterprises
Learn principles and practice of Appreciative Planning & Action for WORTH
Design WORTH/Guinea implementation plan
Develop WORTH/Guinea Orientation Program
Create and practice Orientation Program modules
Make personal plans and commitments for implementation of WORTH
Have participants take turns reading each objective

3. WORTH Guinea Training Agenda
Day Topic
Introduction to Appreciative Planning & Action
Problem to Opportunity
Discovery of the Best
Introduction to WORTH
Our Dreams for WORTH /Guinea
Our Group: Empowerment Literacy
Selling Made Simple: MicroEnterprise Development
Designing WORTH Program
Delivery of WORTH Program
Presentations and Celebrations

4. Participant Expectations & Dreams--
Ask participants to share specific expectations, desires, hopes that they have for the training; share things they want to learn

5. Day One AGENDA Introductions – Appreciative Interviews
Appreciative Planning & Action
“Problem to Opportunity” Exercise
“Worst Problem Ever”
Discovery of Best Experiences
Seeking the Root Cause of Success
Introduction to WORTH
The Birth of Worth in Nepal
WORTH for Guinea
“A-Valuation” and Action Planning
Review agenda, indicate where this fits in the 6-day agenda and any relevant links to ‘Participant Expectations & Dreams”

6. Appreciative Planning & Action Introductions
Appreciative pairwise Interviews
Meet a ‘stranger’ – pick unfamiliar partner
Interview each other (15 min. each)
Questions:
Tell me a story about a time when you felt you made a real difference, a real contribution, a time when you felt proud, excited – in your life, your family, your community
What was your own particular role?
What factors contributed to your success?
Introduce your partner to the group
1 min. summary introduction with highlights of their story and role
Find ‘stranger,’ one unknown, or in case of groups working together, the one least well known to you; seek person of opposite gender, background, or origin where possible

7. Appreciative Planning & Action (APA) The Root Causes of Success
What did we learn from our interviews?
What factors led to success? --
As participants to share the reasons for the successes they uncovered, the things that helped make for success

8. Tea Break and “Energizer”
Exercise from the
“Do It Now” Tool Kit of Appreciative Exercises
“Hopi Indian Boy”

9. Appreciative Planning & Action “Problem to Opportunity”
Learn an appreciative approach to problem solving
Choose the worst problem you can think of
We will turn your worst problem into a positive opportunity in just an hour or two
Problems are either
Things that discourage us and drag us down… or
Opportunities for achieving great things…
It’s our choice….!
Remind participants this will be a short, rapid exercise to show the power of APA approach; it will not try to go deep into either problems or opportunities, but instead will demonstrate how the process works

10. “The Worst Problem….” -- Brainstorming -- “The Worst of the Worst”
Get many ideas of worst problems from participants… Then seek consensus on the ‘worst” of all of them… or a “Worst Problem” that combines elements of several bad ones.

11. Problem Tree
Trunk is ‘Worst Problem’ – Leaves are results of the problem – earth contains roots of the problem
Ask participants to fill in leaves and roots or have them call them out for Facilitator to write on chart
Ask participants to fill in faces for the two circles… and write a word under each one about how they feel about the prospects of solving the problem. (eg. Sad faces,’hopeless’ ‘impossible’ )

12. Problem to Opportunity The ‘positive opposite’ of the ‘worst problem’
Examples: Problems
War
Death, destruction
Conflict, violence
HIV/AIDS
Opportunities
Peace
Life, creation
Harmony, caring
Healthy, safe-sex
Have participants brainstorm other problems and positive opposites; then translate the ‘worst problem’ to its positive opposite
The ‘positive opposite’ of our ‘worst problem’
Problem:
Positive
Opposite:
This is our
Affirmative
Topic

13. Discovery of the best, of success, of what works
The Search for ‘the best,’ ‘what works,’ successes concerning our affirmative topic
Pairs interview each other (5 min. each):
Share personal positive stories, experiences that illustrate the affirmative topic
Each pair joins with another pair (or 2) to form group of 4-6
Introduce your partners and share short summaries of their stories
15 min

14. Dream of even better, what we want more of…
Share your personal dreams of life, a world full of the best, of what we want more of
Draw a picture together of the year 2020, of what this looks like for our children, our grandchildren – of a world full of the best
10 min

15. Design a plan, strategy for achieving the Dream
Outline the main elements of a strategy, an overall plan for achieving the Dream
Summarize these on your picture in 3-5 bullet points
10 min

16. Delivery Action Plan to Get Started
Write a short action plan for the coming week to get started on implementing, Delivering, your Design for achieving your Dream
Each person take a task from the action plan that you want to work on
Each person write your personal commitment on your plan
15 min.

17. “Do It Now!”
Choose one thing from your tasks, one small thing you can do right now to get started… a small first step
“Do It Now !”

18. Sharing Dreams and Designs
Each team makes one minute presentation summarizing the team’s
Dreams
Designs
Delivery
“Do It Now!”
Each person shares his/her
Personal Commitment
5-10 Min.
Lead group in clapping vigorously after each person shares his/her commitment

19. Success Tree
5 Min
As for ‘Problem Tree’ the trunk is the ‘opportunity’ – affirmative topic, leaves are the results from achieving the positive result, roots/earth includes root causes of the success, achievement
Have participants draw face in the circles that represents how they feel now about the opportunity; add a word that summarizes this feeling (eg: happy faces, ‘joyful,’ ‘successful,’ ‘happy’

20. What Happened?
Only about an hour ago you felt the problem was ‘hopeless’
Now you are engaged in action addressing the opportunity, and feel encouraged
What changed?

21. “Words make Worlds” What changed?
Our words – positive, future-oriented
Our language – affirmative, appreciative
Our questions
Instead of asking about the problem, we asked about the solution
This is the power of Appreciative Planning and Action (APA)
WORTH is built around APA

22. Appreciative Planning & Action Summary
Discover The best, success, what works
Dream Even better, what we want more of
Design Strategy, general plan to get there
Deliver Action plan & commitments to start
“Do it now!” Take action to get going now

23. APA and WORTH How can we apply the principles of APA to WORTH ?? --
Our language
Have groups brainstorm ideas and share with the whole

24. Tea Break and “Energizer”
Exercise from the
“Do It Now” Tool Kit of Appreciative Exercises
???? Choose One that works

25. APA for WORTH/Guinea Discover Dream Design Deliver
your best experiences with empowerment, literacy, and small enterprise
Dream
A positive, prosperous future for Liberian women
Design
A dynamic WORTH program to build that future
Deliver
Action plan and commitments to get started

26. Discovery “The Roots of Success in WORTH/Guinea”
Find your original partner
Engage in a conversation of Discovery that taps more of your most powerful, positive personal experiences
Think about your experiences that relate in some way to the goals of WORTH/ Guinea

27. Discovery Interviews
Tell me a story about a time when you really made a difference… for yourself, your family, your community – A story about:
Empowerment. Personal growth, success
Literacy and/or adult learning
Micro finance, and/or
Micro enterprise, small business, entrepreneurship

28. ‘The Root Cause of Success’
Join with your original group
Share highlights of your stories
Discuss:
What are the common factors that make success? What themes do our successes share?
Share your ideas about ‘The root causes of success’ with the larger group

29. WORTH Nepal The Root Causes of Success
Now let’s hear the story of WORTH in Nepal
History
How it works
The results
The Root Causes of Success for WORTH in Nepal

30. (WORTH Nepal Presentation)
(continue with Marcia’s WORTH presentation/slide show)
Insert WORTH Nepal presentation here

31. Tea Break and “Energizer”
Exercise from the
“Do It Now” Tool Kit of Appreciative Exercises
???? Choose One that works

32. “A-Valuation” “The Best” and “Even Better” APA for Evaluation
Participants will conduct a brief evaluation of the day’s activities, learning the basics of APA for evaluation – Appreciative Evaluation, or “A-Valuation”

33. Day One - Review ‘Even Better ‘The Best’ “Do it Now”
If we were running a WORTH training together like this, how could we make it ‘even better’ --
Who will do it?
‘The Best’
Your favorite moments today, what you enjoyed most, what was most valuable --
“Do it Now”
What to do --
tomorrow? --
Ask participants to share, openly as for Brainstorming, their favorite moments today
Then ask them if they were running their own WORTH training like this, how could we make it ‘even better’?

34. Are we having fun yet? “The Morning News” Energizers & Activities
Participants are asked to volunteer to serve as reporters for The Morning News tomorrow… summarizing the highlights of today… news format… entertaining…
Volunteers are also asked for leading energizers and entertainment – for tea breaks and/or end of the day, or evening fun.
Resource Material: “The ‘Do It Now’ Tool Kit of Appreciative Exercises

35. Tea Break and “Energizer”
Exercise from the
“Do It Now” Tool Kit of Appreciative Exercises
???? Choose One that works