Went to the office today to help out with the No Apologies Training of Facilitators (NATOF). Chloe asked me to evaluate one group of the newly trained facilitators, so, this time, instead of me having to present one subtopic within 5 minutes, I get to sit down and watch!
I don't know about other groups, but my group definitely had people who came up with new and refreshing ideas as activities/visual aids, to the point that Chloe forgot to put up the '0 minute' sign when their time was up! Hahaha!

She was talking about the topic on goals and I like how she got people to list down their dreams and goals on the majong paper, pasted the 'premarital sex' sign on them IF they were to get into a promiscuous lifestyle and then crumple up the entire mahjong paper to signify how their dreams and goals would go down the drain. I like analogies, so, I gave her really high marks for both content and presentation. Chloe was like
"Whoa, you're so generous in giving marks" LOL!

Oh maaan, I forgot which topic he did - but it was something from Unit 2 on Healthy Relationships.

He did the topic on 'You can make a difference', but he didn't have the droplet thingy, so, he poured quite a lot of the coloring into the water. When he poured the bleacher in, he was like
"I hope this works" HAHAHAHAHA! We were all laughing :P But seriously, it works - proofs how strong Clorox really is, but that's not the point of this activity :)

She did the part on "Lust, infatuation and love" and her visual aids were 'before-after' photos of artistes, perfume scent (for lust) and a story about real love :) The perfume scent was kinda strong though :(

He talked about the sexual progression chart

This woman can draw! She chose the topic on 'Responding to Peer Pressure' and we have 3 concepts in it. State it, Sell it, Move it - and she had a drawing for each of it. In fact, for the one on 'move it', she drew an animation. She actually pasted it, one paper on top of another, but I think if you were to put the paper together and flip it really fast, you'll get the image of someone walking away. I was amazed (I can't draw maa, of course I'm amazed and a lil envious of those who can!)

Mr. High-Tech guy talked about 'Creative Dates', with his pda/iphone as his notes. He told us something that made us all laugh cos' it is kinda sorta true, in a sense. He said that if you want to see the true color of a guy, don't just bring him to romantic dinners/movies, bring him to watch a sport event and you'll see his true color. And for girls, bring them shopping. LOL! Chloe and I both don't like shopping though...

Another analogy based activity on 'You can begin again'. She got a few people to act out a scenario whereby this guy, James accidentally cut and ate the jelly that his sister actually saved for a party later. He felt really bad about it and he told his mum. His mum took the jelly, put it in a pot, reheat it, put it in a mold and made the jelly whole again. So, it's like, it's okay even if you have had premarital sex before - you can start all over again. As you can already predict, I gave her quite high marks too, and I wrote this under the 'notes' section - "Jelly! =)" HAHAHA!!
Chloe and I both didn't know that it was possible to make a jelly whole again if you reheat it.


He ended it with the part on 'Pledge' - another very interesting activity. Usually this unit, we basically explain about how you can start over and make a commitment to yourself to abstain. The only activity we usually have here is the Pledge-taking ceremony itself. But he did it differently. He used Twisties instead - a packet of unopened twisties and another packet of opened twisties with some funny smelling seasoning. To illustrate his point, he got those two people in front and gave each of them a packet of opened and unopened twisties and they're suppose to give either one packet to the other person. So, his point is that we should give ourselves unopened to our partner cos virginity is a gift that can only be unwrapped once :)

Chloe commenting on their overall presentation and explaining some minor stuff on the preparation of props and why it is important to keep to the given time limit.


Another group at the lobby area with Chee Heng.

Break time

Filling up the evaluation form. Oh, the lady in the purple colored cardigan is Lavin Seow (Christien New's wife). She attended the training together with Azah Yasmin (tv host) - actually, I didn't notice until Chloe told me when I went there in the morning (you know how blur I am lah). Halfway through the session, I turned to Chloe and said
"I like her (Lavin) hairstyle" :P LOL

Group Photo :)