Information from NAVCA
Free Good Conversations Training
Good Conversations is a two and a half hour session by Linking Lives, for anyone volunteering to host welcoming spaces for the public. This might include café drop-ins, foodbanks, Warm Welcome spaces, lunch clubs, Places of Welcome, Community Libraries, Men’s Sheds or any other community initiatives.
Linking Lives are offering this training free of charge (usually £5) and you can find out more here.
Benefits of the training to volunteers include:
- Improves confidence in your volunteering role
- Enables you to recognise skills you already have, and how to apply them in your volunteer role
- Equips you with new knowledge and skills (that you can use in other situations as well as your volunteer role)
- Provides reassurance that you are prepared to deal with a wider range of circumstances
- Highlights some unhelpful things most of us tend to do in conversation, and how to avoid them
- Aids in avoidance of embarrassing or awkward situations- Reduces personal risk
- Enables you to see enhanced benefit to your guests/service users, and to know you have made a difference
