Brief Action Planning Train the Trainer Workshop
2.5 days
Appropriate for educators who are certified in Brief Action Planning.
Prerequisite: Brief Action Planning Certification (within one year of the Train the Trainer course)
What You’ll Learn
This workshop will prepare educators to deliver the Brief Action Planning Workshop.
During the first part of the train the trainer course, learners walk through the Brief Action Planning face-to-face workshops that they will be teaching step-by-step, participating in the activities with a trainer’s perspective. There will be facilitated discussions throughout to help them analyse and understand why the activities are designed the way they are, and they will have time to ask questions about facilitating specific parts of the workshops as they come up. They will also learn how to customize the workshops based on their audience and time constraints. They will also discuss teaching tools and approaches before taking time to plan their own next steps.
About the Course
- Practice teaching opportunity: The major assignment for the course will be to lead a practice teaching session, where trainees will be assigned a section of the course material to teach the class. This will give them an opportunity to practice in a safe environment and receive feedback from their instructor and their peers.
- Trainer Resources: Successful trainees will come away with hard copies and online access to resources for conducting their own workshops (including a PowerPoint presentation, handouts, and a customizable training plan).
- Capacity: Up to 12 people per group. Contact us for more information about how to arrange for your group to take this course.
Course Details
- Identify expectations of BAP trainers.
- Describe the 5-step model for training.
- Discuss a training plan and activity guide.
- Critique a workshop plan.
- Plan a BAP workshop.
- Describe learning activities and application of 5 step plan to training
- Discuss training activities for adult learners.
- Demonstrate responding to different situations that may arise during a training.
- Discuss skills needed for training in BAP
- Demonstrate teaching BAP
- Demonstrate ability to provide confirming and constructive feedback using a feedback sandwich.
- Define fidelity.
- Describe why fidelity is important in BAP training
- Describe responsibilities of the trainer for fidelity
- Describe implementation of BAP in your organization.
- Commit to offering a workshop
- Describe next steps for BAP
- Identify expectations of BAP trainers.
- Describe the 5-step model for training.
- Discuss a training plan and activity guide.
- Critique a workshop plan.
- Plan a BAP workshop.
- Describe learning activities and application of 5 step plan to training
- Discuss training activities for adult learners.
- Demonstrate responding to different situations that may arise during a training.
- Discuss skills needed for training in BAP
- Demonstrate teaching BAP
- Demonstrate ability to provide confirming and constructive feedback using a feedback sandwich.
- Define fidelity.
- Describe why fidelity is important in BAP training
- Describe responsibilities of the trainer for fidelity
- Describe implementation of BAP in your organization.
- Commit to offering a workshop
- Describe next steps for BAP
CCMI’s train the trainer courses help people gain the skills and confidence to conduct learning sessions of their own. Trainees are taught by CCMI Master Trainers and are provided with transformative learning approaches designed to help learners apply new skills in practice. CCMI uses and teaches learner-centred, performance-based approaches to adult education. Our workshops include:
- Learning activities that evoke understanding and build skills.
- Practice activities that increases practical understanding and allow trainers to provide constructive feedback.
- Facilitated discussions about how new skills and knowledge can be applied in learners work or volunteer setting.
Trainers who conduct a workshop and submit the required documentation within a year of their training will receive a certificate of trainer recognition, valid for one year. Each year trainers are expected to conduct a workshop and submit documentation to renew their trainer recognition and maintain access to CCMI trainer resources.
Brief Action Planning – Faculty Led
6-7 hours, with virtual or in-person training options.
Includes two 30-minute practice and feedback sessions
For a wide range of professionals and peer helpers
Brief Action Planning Certification
3-5 hours self-paced online content
Prerequisite: Training or self-guided learning in Brief Action Planning
For a wide range of professionals and peer helpers
More Brief Action Planning Training
Brief Action Planning (BAP) is a structured, evidence-based approach that guides people in setting SMART goals, assessing confidence, problem-solving, and planning follow-ups.
Choose from a variety of virtual and in-person training options
See our CCMI Services page for an overview of all of our offerings and details like workshop prerequisites, duration, and capacity.
Frequently Asked Questions
Brief Action Planning is a self-management support approach to help people make action plans to address the aspects of their health or situation that are most important to them. It is practical and highly structured, and involves using an algorithm to guide someone step-by-step through deciding whether they want to make a plan, developing a SMART plan, assessing their confidence, problem-solving if necessary, and planning their follow-up. Each step of the process is carefully considered and is based on the literature and evolving understanding of what works and doesn’t work to help people change.
Brief Action Planning is designed to:
- Incorporate the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (compassion, acceptance, partnership, and evocation).
- Use a person-centred stepped care approach.
- Build self-efficacy.
- Develop skills for independent self-management.
- Create concrete and realistic plans in under 10 minutes.
This approach works well for supporting people who are already thinking about change and need some help to get started, and it can be used by anyone who is interested in helping people make behavioural changes to impact their health or well-being.
Learn about other Brief Action Planning Courses at CCMI.
BAP Certification demonstrates a trainee’s competence in BAP skills through an exam in the format of a structured and recorded interaction with a CCMI Standardized Patient. The exam is scored by a coder using a standardized rating scale. The rating scale emphasizes conversational tone, flow of the interaction and adherence to the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing in addition to demonstration of BAP skills.
Practice and feedback sessions increase trainees’ confidence and proficiency in BAP skills. These video sessions provide opportunities for participants to practice BAP skills with a BAP trainer. The trainer role plays the part of a patient or client appropriate to the group participating in the video session. Past experience has shown that most BAP trainees become skilled with 2-3 practice sessions. These sessions are the ideal preparation for BAP Certification.