Follow up

How to follow up

• You can follow up this training and obtain more information about how to implement it in your daily work.
• Study the manual for examples that are relevant in your work.
• Use your group for support, caring and sharing.
• It is important to practice the grounding exercises again and again until the skill becomes automatic and can be called on even during moments of distress.
• Take care of yourself as a helper, do the necessary self-evaluation to prevent secondary traumatisation and the like.  See our thematic page on helping the helper.
• Before you separate, please agree among yourselves that one or two of you will take particular responsibility for providing and coordinating support to members of the group.
• If you would like to do so, please let MHHRI know their names.
• Try to find and make use of resource persons in your region who can provide advice or input.
• Contact MHHRI for advice when you need it.