Closing Ceremony: Being an Organizer

As we did not have much time and as a person who is very used to be worried, I was afraid that we cannot organize a dynamic training with many participants at first. Actually, when we start delivering our announcement, we did receive so many interests to join our training and we did not offer all of them and just made selection. Finally, we conducted the training on Crisis Intervention & Trauma Competency with 28 participants and that number really made our training room very loaded. As we have two trainings on that topic in the month, they are the second group and I was a part of organizing this fabulous jobs.

For their group, it is a week-days-training from the 6th to 10th of December. As most of SalusWorld’s training, it is from 9a.m. to 5 p.m. They were 21 women and 7 men and most of them are youths. They are very energetic volunteers from some CBOs and CSOs in Yangon and they focus on educational development for children from the low-income communities. Just some of the participants are teachers and NGO workers.

Honestly, I did not do many works in the training although I came to training rooms every day. I got a time to work with my laptop showing my stand-by mode to help them if they need. As some of them are very familiar with our trainings and our wonderful trainer Gwen, they all can interact very successfully helping each other. As they all are very good in English, my translation is not needed. However, sometime, we really got quite amusement, although they could communicate through English without failure, as they are not working in these issues and all the time like me, they did not reach the goal at first and both sides were pretty frustrated. At those moments, I was the life saver for both parties. That was the duty and responsibility of my existence there and I am very proud of being a part of such an amazing training.

I was hearing and seeing what they said and did in the training even I did not do it intentionally and that really made me delighted knowing their remarkable strengths, wills to learn and to cascade their skills and knowledge to others. Whenever they asked me for something, I felt they are beautiful and I am beautiful, too.

At the end of the training, I received many words of thanks from them. I felt they all gave me a bouquet of flowers and a teddy bear. I believe I alone could not do such great things without the support of our team and such an amazing trainer who was the real contributor of that achievement and especially those trainings. In fact, I am the one who have to express my words of thanks to those lovely guys. Thanks millions for joining us, interesting in psychosocial and your perspectives on the importance of mental health in community and social workers, willingness to support people, giving ideas to improve our network, giving me a chance to meet such an awesome women, men and human beings and making my life more meaningful.