Course Leaders

Each Awareness group is led by one or more Course Leaders. Course Leaders add greatly to the 'value' of a course by:

• motivating participants in discussions and activities;
• offering feedback and support to those taking part; and
• providing some contextualisation by applying the essence of the video teaching to their own group's situation and experiences.

The Awareness Course's teaching method, designed and refined over five years, is based on the use of professionally-produced teaching videos, meaning that the Course Leader’s role is that of facilitator and motivator rather than lecturer.

Who can be a Course Leader?

Put simply, almost anyone can be a Course Leader!

• You don't have to be a theologian to lead an Awareness Course.
• You don't have to be a priest.
• If you have taught or presented a little before, then you should easily be able to lead an Awareness Course!

If you are interested in developing and strengthening your own faith, and can stand up in front of a group of people without becoming hopelessly tongue-tied, then you CAN lead an Awareness Course.

The Awareness Course always involves 'real world' issues such as diversity, globalisation, fundamentalism and secularism - issues which every one of us has encountered - and much of what will happen in a session will be fuelled by your participants' own experiences and insight. As for the teaching itself, Course Leaders can rely on the Awareness Foundation's own teaching team to deliver this through our DVD. Of course, we are always happy if you'd rather do some of the main teaching yourself.