Trainings

It is impossible to imagine modern practical psychology without trainings. Sales trainings, confidence trainings, negotiation trainings, attractiveness trainings and leadership trainings… — trainings will tell you about everything that interests you.

Training can do many important things. Good trainings tell a lot of practical things: just take it and use it. High-quality training motivates perfectly, people leave it inspired and charged, they want to live, they believe in themselves and they want to try something new that they learned and saw at the training. At the training, people get to know each other and get closer, find new friends. Many people are passionate about trainings in the same way that people are fond of hiking or theater, trainings have long become a form of leisure organization, a successful combination of communication and gaining new knowledge. And yet, the main task of the training is still education.

What is training

When a concept becomes too popular, its boundaries are greatly expanded: everything that is at least somehow similar to it begins to be called a popular word. Training is a popular word, and today, in the mass consciousness, training is any active activity that a psychologist conducts with a group of people. This is, however, inaccurate.

Training is an activity that combines a practical lecture and adequate training. In a good training, the combination of lecture and training is one to one, and you always want more training! See →

Elements of training

In addition to the training itself, trainings often use games (business, role-playing) and case solving, group discussions and processes. What is it in more detail, see→

History of the training movement

The emergence of training is associated primarily with Kurt Lewin, an American psychologist who founded T-groups in 1946, where people learned to communicate better. In 1954, sensitivity groups appeared (they developed what would now be called emotional intelligence), and in the 60s, social and life skills training based on the humanistic psychology of Carl Rogers. Actually, psychological trainings came to Russia rather because of the u.e.zha. The first source was the humanistic psychology of Carl Rogers, which was received exceptionally positively by almost all the progressive members of the then psychological community. The second source of psychological training in the Soviet Union was psychotherapeutic activity, helping people suffering from broken relationships, their own lack of fulfillment and other personal and social disorder. Currently, the largest training center in Russia is the Sinton center, See →

Group and individual trainings

For USD, first of all in the USA, individual trainings are very common. At the beginning of the financial year, employees set goals, write a plan to achieve them, and as one of the ways they plan to go through certain training programs. These are not group trainings, this is a training program that he can receive in the form of a manual or a file from the leader, get acquainted with topics and questions, learn the necessary material, learn how to solve cases — prepare and successfully answer the training questions.

In Russia, group trainings are more common, which are conducted by specially trained trainers who lead the trainings.

The following article is devoted to group trainings.

Training, seminar and similar forms of work

At lectures, listeners sit and listen, at best they raise their hands and answer the lecturer’s questions. At the seminar, the participants themselves speak, discussions are possible at the seminar. You may be given a lot of information during a seminar, but it is not the goal of the facilitator to make sure that you practically understand what he has told you. You have received the information, and then either assimilate it yourself, or contact specialists so that they control you and help you assimilate what you hear — your choice.

People leave the training having solved some personal problem that they could not cope with on their own for a long time, or having gained practical skills in using what the training was dedicated to.

It is clear that this is usually a low level of mastery of skills — due to the limited time of the training. But you will definitely get the first experience of practical use of the training content.

What is the difference between training and other forms of education, what are the pros and cons of training — see Trainings and other forms of education

And keep in mind: what is sometimes presented as training, in fact, may not be it. See Branded Training

Types and variety of trainings

The variety of trainings is exceptionally large. There are personal and business trainings, specific skills trainings, personal growth and personality development trainings, state trainings, psychotherapeutic, transformational and research trainings, soft and hard trainings, breakthrough trainings and entertainment trainings… See →

Field training — training with a trip, either to another city or to nature. An on-site training for a trainer (he went to another city) may not be an on-site training for participants at all (they are in their own city). Travel training is a training that uses a change in impressions from the natural environment. For example, this is a trip to another country or training in your own country on buses (option — field conditions).

Sinton’s field trainings are a great opportunity to relax on the warm sea in winter, go through high-quality trainings and meet worthy, interesting people.

Goals and results of the trainings

The topic of the training is one thing, the goals of the trainer are the second, the intentions of the participants are the third. And what the participants get as a result is quite the fourth … See Why do people go to trainings, What do trainings give and The effectiveness of the Synthon program