Consultant Training Material

A consultant helps to train facilitators and works with facilitators and crafters to help them to tell the best possible stories. The lessons and handouts on this page may help in training, but will have to be adjusted for each situation.



Lessons for Pre-Consultants in Training


Lesson 001: Back Translation

Lesson 002: Processing consultant comments

Lesson 003: Checking a beginners' story 

Handouts and other lesson material. 

Here you can find miscellaneous handouts or slides that could be useful for trainers.


Making a storyboard.pdf
1. Understanding discussion questions
2. Making a cultural bridge during story discussion
Story checking tips.pdf
3. How to make good discussion questions
Listen with someone else's ears
Considerations for story selection (A).pdf
Considerations for story selection (Cultural questionnaire).pdf
Testing a story.pdf
Go for the papaya.pdf
Helping STs to multiply.pdf
Filling the gaps.pdf
Story structure.pdf
Crafting a long story.pdf
Crafting a story on your own.pdf
Crafting from an epistle.pdf
Don't tweak the Back Translation!.pdf
The main point part 1 - finding the main point of a story
The main point part 2 - evaluate the main point of a crafted story
The main point part 3 - making discussion questions
The main point part 3 - making discussion questions - answers

Consultant growth plan

A consultant growth plan can help to keep track of what a trainee has mastered and what they still need further practice in. Here is an example. 


CIT growth plan 

Checklist for evaluating a checking event