The weekend was on the theme of a race meeting and included a race night with monopoly money, and a free sweep stake where the joint winners of the Grand National got mini prosecco bottles & chocolate coins for their winnings. There were some nice touches and it was a really good example of what a residential event should look like. I think we all appreciated not having to drive to Foxlease, and a lovely meal and decent nights sleep at the Holiday Inn just off the M5 at Taunton was a really good idea.
We covered the basics of guiding in an ice breaker with Heros chocolates and ended on an exercise based on GG values where we selected our favourite quote and made a horse key ring as a keepsake. We had a really fast run through the new programme, and tested the 3 pilot training plans in the afternoon, before stopping to watch the Grand National which aptly had 3 female jockeys this year. We incorporated county trainers support groups before dinner which was useful in light of the new programme.
Sunday was given over to Dr Elly Barnes from Educate & Celebrate who ran an excellent example of how a training should be run. The session was all about making us LGBT+ friendly in our trainings and it provided food for thought as well as a lovely song about a pair of penguins who tried to hatch a stone that was called Tango! Dr Barnes was very complementary about the GG gender policy & toolkit. There are some really good resources at http://www.educateandcelebrate.org/resources/ which could be used in unit activities.
I've already added a couple of things to follow up on to my PDP.
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| Sunday morning after Dr Barnes training on LGBT+ language |
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