Training Info | Own My Life Course

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Own My Life course CPD accredited facilitator training is available to practitioners working within women's services and other organisations working to respond to domestic abuse, sexual violence, women in prison or the criminal justice system, or within social care, children's centres, peer support work, or other spaces where women need help making sense of their lives and experiences. Our training is usually delivered online.

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Our CPD accredited training is usually delivered via Zoom over 5-days and may take place over 1 week or multiple weeks. Training is 9.30am - 4.30pm each day, is highly interactive, deeply informative and fun. Individual practitioners can book onto the training with facilities for organisations to block book training places for a whole staff team.

Training includes:

Full instruction to deliver the Own My Life course with women.
Comprehensive domestic abuse education.
Literacy building on the physiology of trauma.
The course WoManual.
Unlimited access to the Own My Life e-Hub.
35 CPD accredited hours training.

Training costs £600 per person.

All organisations and individuals training to run Own My Life are required to sign up to our Expectations of Sisterhood, including our Facilitator Agreement and Service Delivery Agreement. If you have questions about this, please email info@ownmylifecourse.org.

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99% of practitioners said our training was either good or excellent

Not only is our CPD accredited training transformational, once trained, our facilitators get access to an amazing suite of resources to support them in running the Own My Life course, and their organisation even get access to Own My Life:Support, to ensure that courses make the biggest difference to women's lives and that practitioners are well supported as they facilitate the course. You can find out more about our exclusive training materials by clicking through the tabs below:

Own My Story Journal

We have developed this Evaluation Station to give organisations running the course easily accessible data about how well the course is working and the difference it is making in women’s lives. Designed to be easy to use, even for those with few technical skills, we can provide you with online evaluation forms which automatically update to an online spreadsheet, ensuring all your data is fully accessible online and is seamlessly automated, with minimal effort for facilitators. The data is displayed in pie charts and with percentages to make it easy to measure the impact of the course.

Taster Day

A one-day training event that can be delivered by Own My Life facilitators to professionals in your local area (and beyond). It introduces attendees to the Own My Life course content and will enable them to more effectively refer women into the course. Materials provided for running the Taster Day include set up materials (editable application form, draft email invite), delivery materials (timetable, session plan, PowerPoint, evaluation pack), and PDF handouts that can be printed or linked to, if the Taster Day is delivered online.

Own My Life:Extra

A password protected area of our website, Own My Life:Extra has been created especially for women participating in Own My Life courses. There is a webpage available for each session which includes: a recap of the session's content, reflection questions, additional content on a subject from the session, a video linked to the session content and further reading. The can also access the course playlist on YouTube filled with empowering and positive songs for women. During training, we provide facilitators with the password for Own My Life:Extra

Expectations of Sisterhood

Every organisation is different and we seek to empower practitioners to deliver the Own My Life course in ways that are best suited to their context, with freedom and flexibility to ensure women accessing the course benefit from the practitioner skill and the unique strengths of each organisation. We also have non-negotiable delivery requirements, our Expectations of Sisterhood, which are designed to protect the integrity of the Own My Life material, safeguard practitioner wellbeing and ensure women get the most benefit from the course.

Evaluation Station

Our Evaluation Station to gives organisations running Own My Life easily accessible data about how well the course is working and the difference it is making in women’s lives. Designed to be easy to use, even for those with few technical skills, we offer each organisation an Evaluation Pack that provides online evaluation forms (and printable forms) which automatically update an spreadsheet, ensuring all evaluation data is fully accessible online and is seamlessly automated, with minimal effort for facilitators.