{"id":128,"date":"2020-01-22T08:35:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T08:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/southafrica20\/?p=128"},"modified":"2020-01-22T08:35:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T08:35:59","slug":"mentoring-in-mamelodi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/southafrica20\/2020\/01\/22\/mentoring-in-mamelodi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentoring in Mamelodi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our 2-hour mentoring session in Mamelodi encompassed two\nsessions, the junior session for the first hour, and then senior training in\nthe second. It was again a great opportunity to think about differentiation in\nmessaging and practices between junior players and senior players \u2013 and revealed\nthe strengths and challenges of peer-to-peer education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While the junior session focused on the basic myths and facts\nabout HIV transmission, the seniors were able to start to get into real depth\nabout Screen \u2013 Know \u2013 Act, the process for HIV self-screening, and some of the\noptions available for taking action once you know your status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coach Sizwe led from the front. A coach in the Lee Booth mould,\nhe\u2019s loud and fearless \u2013 as soon as the senior players started rolling into the\nground he had them involved in a fielding warm up and his shouts carried across\nthe field:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cScreen yourself! Screen yourself!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Know your status! Know your status!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Act on it! Act on it!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deftly followed up by an explanation on how this then links\nto HIV Self Screening, and the importance of acting no matter what your result,\npositive or negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile Coach Freddie, a quieter man who is lead coach of\nthe senior practice, was setting up a couple of practices to work on fielding \u2013\nthe seniors had been dropping a lot of catches in practice and so that was to\nbe the focus on the session. We had a chat about how we could add a few\nmessages into the session, and he was understandably nervous particularly about\ngiving the explanation of the HIV Self-Screening process for the first time. We\ncame to an agreement \u2013 I\u2019d go first, and explain for the first group, and then\nonce the groups switched over he\u2019d lead on the session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it turned out, he needn\u2019t have been nervous. Calling the\nwhole group together to kick the session off Freddie delivered a concise\nexplanation that the \u201cnew year was for new things\u201d and that the sessions now\nmight include some basic information about HIV. He then proceeded to nail the\nHIV Self-Screening process for a fielding drill that required players to work\ntheir way around a series of cones, collecting and throwing a ball at each cone,\nand with each cone corresponding to a step in the Self-Screening process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These older age groups, and peer-to-peer learning, is\nclearly the optimum place for the HIV Self-Screening content, and it\u2019s now up\nto us to work with Northerns to think about how we can maximise the sharing of\nthese messages to these senior players, while also thinking about what the junior\nage group content should look like as a springboard for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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