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Dennis & Marcia Hamilton have spent the last 40 plus years working in international development training and planning. They met in Nigeria in 1981 and lived in Thailand, the Philippines, Italy and France where they worked for the Peace Corps, the United Nations, Non Government Organizations and their own company TA (Training associates) in Thailand and TAP (Training Associates Pacific) in the USA. Dennis Hamilton has worked in more than 70 countries throughout his 40-plus year career in international development training and planning, much of that time focusing on disaster management.

Marcia Hamilton is the international management consultant and coach who developed LEAP as a personal planning and counseling tool. As a certified PCCM/ZOPP facilitator, strategic planner, and registered counselor, she designed and facilitated training programs and projects (in the areas of report and proposal writing, personal planning, adjustment counseling, gender, cross-culture, teambuilding, TOT, computer technology, education, diversity, change management, entrepreneurship, literacy, agriculture, economic development, and community organization) in the US and abroad. http://www.tap-trainingassociatespacific.com

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Training in Paradise
The Compendium Volumes I-VI
by Dennis Hamilton and Marcia Hamilton

Overview

Training in Paradise: The Compendium Volumes 1-VI

  • Volume I: Participant-Centered Learning: The Conceptual Framework presents our participant-centered philosophy, some key concepts linked to it, as well as a chapter from Volumes II-VI describing a workshop and some insights about working in that culture.
  • Volume II: Training of Trainers (TOT) includes examples from the many TOTs we have delivered and manuals we have written. It is organized into three sections: "Before, During and After the workshop." It is our take on how to train facilitators to do participant-centered work—with focus on design, delivery, facilitation skills, adult learning styles, small group work, key methodologies, generic schedules, checklists and designs.
  • Volume III: Project Planning & Monitoring focuses on ZOPP (Ziel Orientierte Projekt Planung) and Project Cycle Management—beginning in Nepal with USAID, then in Thailand with GTZ, moving to Europe with AMI, extending into South Asia, the Middle East and the U.S.A. Once we became ZOPP moderators, we expanded the methodology and incorporated it ubiquitously into our work.
  • Volume IV: Humanitarian Emergency Management captures DH's more than 40 years facilitating emergency and humanitarian management training, including in Lesotho, the national emergency planning workshop in China, the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, and EWPM for the UN.
  • Volume V: Unique Learning Interventions details experiences that do not fit into other Volumes—from "Giving birth to organizations," to micro-enterprise development and child labor monitoring, teambuilding, proposal & report writing and Introduction to development.
  • Volume VI: Life Experience Action Planning (LEAP) is a step-by step presentation of the LEAP methodology—the personal planning approach MH developed based on ZOPP project planning. Included are instructions for facilitating each LEAP Step, as well as examples for business, universities, and correctional facilities.
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Description

FOREWORD to the TIP Compendium

When we were on vacation in Thailand in 1985 on Moo Ga See Chang, in a tree house-- Denny and I sat on the veranda overlooking the ocean and had an idea to write a book about the challenges of doing participatory training. Each chapter was to have a training challenge, a cultural anecdote, and a session design, so others could use the methods if they chose. Then we began to write.  Denny churned out anecdotes. I worked methodically filling in the holes with session designs. We talked. We discussed. We changed the outline and analyzed what we had written. We moved to the Philippines. We kept working. We moved to Italy. We kept at it. Little by little, It finally dawned on us that this could not possibly be ONE book. Each kind of training needed a separate focus. And of course, another problem was that we kept working so we had more to write about! Finally, we ended up with the six volumes briefly described above  We had a full set (almost) ready to print! However, when it came time to decide how to print all six books, we asked colleagues to weigh in on whether they would prefer books printed one by one or, all six books together in one— our original idea! Some said, individually, but the majority suggested "one book." So this book, the Six Volume TIP Compendium is the result.

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Overview

Training in Paradise: The Compendium Volumes 1-VI

  • Volume I: Participant-Centered Learning: The Conceptual Framework presents our participant-centered philosophy, some key concepts linked to it, as well as a chapter from Volumes II-VI describing a workshop and some insights about working in that culture.
  • Volume II: Training of Trainers (TOT) includes examples from the many TOTs we have delivered and manuals we have written. It is organized into three sections: "Before, During and After the workshop." It is our take on how to train facilitators to do participant-centered work—with focus on design, delivery, facilitation skills, adult learning styles, small group work, key methodologies, generic schedules, checklists and designs.
  • Volume III: Project Planning & Monitoring focuses on ZOPP (Ziel Orientierte Projekt Planung) and Project Cycle Management—beginning in Nepal with USAID, then in Thailand with GTZ, moving to Europe with AMI, extending into South Asia, the Middle East and the U.S.A. Once we became ZOPP moderators, we expanded the methodology and incorporated it ubiquitously into our work.
  • Volume IV: Humanitarian Emergency Management captures DH's more than 40 years facilitating emergency and humanitarian management training, including in Lesotho, the national emergency planning workshop in China, the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, and EWPM for the UN.
  • Volume V: Unique Learning Interventions details experiences that do not fit into other Volumes—from "Giving birth to organizations," to micro-enterprise development and child labor monitoring, teambuilding, proposal & report writing and Introduction to development.
  • Volume VI: Life Experience Action Planning (LEAP) is a step-by step presentation of the LEAP methodology—the personal planning approach MH developed based on ZOPP project planning. Included are instructions for facilitating each LEAP Step, as well as examples for business, universities, and correctional facilities.

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Description

FOREWORD to the TIP Compendium

When we were on vacation in Thailand in 1985 on Moo Ga See Chang, in a tree house-- Denny and I sat on the veranda overlooking the ocean and had an idea to write a book about the challenges of doing participatory training. Each chapter was to have a training challenge, a cultural anecdote, and a session design, so others could use the methods if they chose. Then we began to write.  Denny churned out anecdotes. I worked methodically filling in the holes with session designs. We talked. We discussed. We changed the outline and analyzed what we had written. We moved to the Philippines. We kept working. We moved to Italy. We kept at it. Little by little, It finally dawned on us that this could not possibly be ONE book. Each kind of training needed a separate focus. And of course, another problem was that we kept working so we had more to write about! Finally, we ended up with the six volumes briefly described above  We had a full set (almost) ready to print! However, when it came time to decide how to print all six books, we asked colleagues to weigh in on whether they would prefer books printed one by one or, all six books together in one— our original idea! Some said, individually, but the majority suggested "one book." So this book, the Six Volume TIP Compendium is the result.

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Book details

Genre:EDUCATION

Subgenre:Teaching Methods & Materials / General

Language:English

Pages:840

Paperback ISBN:9781667827933

Overview

Training in Paradise: The Compendium Volumes 1-VI

  • Volume I: Participant-Centered Learning: The Conceptual Framework presents our participant-centered philosophy, some key concepts linked to it, as well as a chapter from Volumes II-VI describing a workshop and some insights about working in that culture.
  • Volume II: Training of Trainers (TOT) includes examples from the many TOTs we have delivered and manuals we have written. It is organized into three sections: "Before, During and After the workshop." It is our take on how to train facilitators to do participant-centered work—with focus on design, delivery, facilitation skills, adult learning styles, small group work, key methodologies, generic schedules, checklists and designs.
  • Volume III: Project Planning & Monitoring focuses on ZOPP (Ziel Orientierte Projekt Planung) and Project Cycle Management—beginning in Nepal with USAID, then in Thailand with GTZ, moving to Europe with AMI, extending into South Asia, the Middle East and the U.S.A. Once we became ZOPP moderators, we expanded the methodology and incorporated it ubiquitously into our work.
  • Volume IV: Humanitarian Emergency Management captures DH's more than 40 years facilitating emergency and humanitarian management training, including in Lesotho, the national emergency planning workshop in China, the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, and EWPM for the UN.
  • Volume V: Unique Learning Interventions details experiences that do not fit into other Volumes—from "Giving birth to organizations," to micro-enterprise development and child labor monitoring, teambuilding, proposal & report writing and Introduction to development.
  • Volume VI: Life Experience Action Planning (LEAP) is a step-by step presentation of the LEAP methodology—the personal planning approach MH developed based on ZOPP project planning. Included are instructions for facilitating each LEAP Step, as well as examples for business, universities, and correctional facilities.

Read more

Description

FOREWORD to the TIP Compendium

When we were on vacation in Thailand in 1985 on Moo Ga See Chang, in a tree house-- Denny and I sat on the veranda overlooking the ocean and had an idea to write a book about the challenges of doing participatory training. Each chapter was to have a training challenge, a cultural anecdote, and a session design, so others could use the methods if they chose. Then we began to write.  Denny churned out anecdotes. I worked methodically filling in the holes with session designs. We talked. We discussed. We changed the outline and analyzed what we had written. We moved to the Philippines. We kept working. We moved to Italy. We kept at it. Little by little, It finally dawned on us that this could not possibly be ONE book. Each kind of training needed a separate focus. And of course, another problem was that we kept working so we had more to write about! Finally, we ended up with the six volumes briefly described above  We had a full set (almost) ready to print! However, when it came time to decide how to print all six books, we asked colleagues to weigh in on whether they would prefer books printed one by one or, all six books together in one— our original idea! Some said, individually, but the majority suggested "one book." So this book, the Six Volume TIP Compendium is the result.

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About the author

Dennis & Marcia Hamilton have spent the last 40 plus years working in international development training and planning. They met in Nigeria in 1981 and lived in Thailand, the Philippines, Italy and France where they worked for the Peace Corps, the United Nations, Non Government Organizations and their own company TA (Training associates) in Thailand and TAP (Training Associates Pacific) in the USA. Dennis Hamilton has worked in more than 70 countries throughout his 40-plus year career in international development training and planning, much of that time focusing on disaster management.

Marcia Hamilton is the international management consultant and coach who developed LEAP as a personal planning and counseling tool. As a certified PCCM/ZOPP facilitator, strategic planner, and registered counselor, she designed and facilitated training programs and projects (in the areas of report and proposal writing, personal planning, adjustment counseling, gender, cross-culture, teambuilding, TOT, computer technology, education, diversity, change management, entrepreneurship, literacy, agriculture, economic development, and community organization) in the US and abroad. http://www.tap-trainingassociatespacific.com

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Penelope 		Far more than a textbook Review – Training in Paradise – TIP Compendium This is far more than a textbook. It’s a detailed professional journal that —just like a personal journal— doesn’t cringe from truth, even when it hurts. Marcia and Denny Hamilton have meticulously chronicled their decades long global training career, step-by-step and knock-by-knock. Anyone who reads it with full attention will know they are in the hands of international masters. And on top of its educational value and exacting attention to detail, it’s thoroughly entertaining in its anecdotes from different countries. Anyone with an interest in how the world works, such as those studying international development, would benefit from this book – not only those in the training and facilitation profession. I had the privilege and honor of working with Marcia in the early days of Training Associates - Philippines (TAP) and the pleasure of knowing the Hamilton family for the common years we were stationed in that wonderful country and maintaining that friendship and contact for nearly 30 years. I’ve participated in ZOPP/GOPP workshops with remarkable facilitators trained by Denny and Marcia and remain astounded at what that system can accomplish when properly executed. Penelope Poole, MA (Former TAP Executive Director) Read more
Jack 		The TIP Compendium - A Librarian's Review The Training in Paradise: Compendium is long—840 pages long. However, as a librarian (retired from the Library of Congress) and historian, I committed to reading it all. And this I did—from cover to cover in four days—taking copious notes. And, yes, I did find a few missing citations, question marks, and typos. However, as is obvious and mentioned in the Foreword of this co-written opus, the volumes were written at different times in different countries, over 35 years. This occasionally presents problems in style and tense, and sometimes a story that is told in one of the six volumes is repeated in another. Yet, notwithstanding its inconsistencies and lack of acronym explanations, the TIP Compendium is a fascinating book. I learned a lot about the Hamilton’s core values and about participant-centered learning. Volume I: The Conceptual Framework explains this core and is an important prerequisite to the rest of the volumes. In fact, I came to realize that the reason they wrote this tome was to show the interconnection among participant-centered training, people and culture—and to give examples of how it is done in detailed session designs. I loved the evaluation tools and the charts and tables. But I especially loved the stories and the way some cross-cultural dilemmas were handled: Marcia’s “consider yourself hugged” good-bye in Bangladesh—the eight eyes evaluation tool; her driving trip through Northeast Thailand to set up the Kaypro computers, and the saga of her Italian work permit. Denny’s memory of a Bosnian experience and the one about the Cow dung hotel in China kept me smiling for hours and his description of his confrontation with the Colonel and his magnum pistol, showed how a trainer takes charge. But perhaps my favorite was the Lesotho story about the testicles and the way Denny. came up with a common-sense solution that changed a man’s life. For me this is a book that integrates what the Hamiltons have been up to over the past 40 years. I only vaguely knew. They would pop into our lives for a few days and then be gone again. Lots of disconnected stories without bridges. Reading this book was like doing a jigsaw puzzle and finally discovering the missing pieces. Some for-profit editor would have probably thrown out half of the pages but that would eliminate the feeling of being in a truck wandering down a dirt road to somewhere.......and then somewhere else........and around the next bend over the next ridge would appear wisdom Read more
Nancy 		Training in Paradise Training in Paradise is an amazing six-section compendium of Marcia and Denny Hamilton’s world-wide work in participant centered training. The book opens up 40 years of shared experience as they developed a philosophy of best practices for adult learning. With step-by-step examples from projects, workshops, and personal interactions across multiple cultures, countries and educational levels, you will be fascinated wherever you dip into it. Illiterate subsistence farmers, high level government functionaries, first responders, and MBA students, whether in Europe, Asia, or the Middle East have all learned tools to improve their lives through the techniques of sharing knowledge demonstrated in these six segments. You can read Training in Paradise as a how-to-manual: How to train those who train others; how to set up a problem solving workshop; how to live in a culture distinctly different from your own; how to develop, manage, monitor and evaluate a social development project; or how to coach skills in life actualization. Or you can read it to enjoy vignettes of life in other countries and cultures--or as a memoir of two ordinary people who chose to live extraordinary lives. However you read Training in Paradise, the openhearted personalities of Denny and Marcia shine through. They have enlivened thousands of people with their work. Read this book. It may transform your life too. Nancy Hopkins 1/22/22 Read more