I have done three different trainings with Evolvement and could not be more excited for my fourth and final training with them this year. Having so many opportunities to experience the same training with different people around makes it a different experience entirely. The objective is always the same but seeing the different ways people complete it is always exciting. The different groups of people that come together to complete one objective makes Evolvement a family of different individuals.
Our objective with training is to educate the new Evolvers on what we advocate for and what they can do to help. It is not often that we get questions because our training slides explain everything thoroughly. But when we do get questions, both the Leadership Team and Evolvement Staff are quick to answer them. We discuss not only what we do and how we do it, but also why this work is important. Training is a really great day to remember why you care about the work we do. Sometimes it’s easy to forget why this work is important since the use of nicotine products is so common, but training really reminds us that it is a problem and that we can actually help.
At the end of every training we have our survey challenge in which all Evolvers go around the school collecting opinion surveys from their peers. The Evolvers will make groups of three and go around the school during lunch and collect as many surveys as they can. Each person can only take one survey so it becomes a big competition on who can get to them first. Training overall teaches us how to advocate through the slides and through the final challenge where they send us off to advocate for what we believe in. I highly recommend attending a training at your school because it’s a really great way to learn about advocacy in a fun setting.
