Our next round of training for new meeting facilitator volunteers (both online and face-to-face meetings) is coming up.
Could you facilitate?
Are you a people person? Do you have an ear to lend? If you are able to commit to three hours per week, this might be the perfect volunteer opportunity for you. Changes Bristol is recruiting volunteers to support the running of our groups as we start opening more up.
Facilitating is an extremely rewarding role in which you help to run our peer support meetings. We will provide full training and supervision. After a full training you will be expected to commit approximately 3 hours of your time, the same time every week. We need volunteers to be dependable and committed when taking on the role.
As we operate from a model of peer support, we value lived experiences of mental health challenges, so while this is not a requirement for the role, it can be to your advantage when running the groups.
We are looking for volunteers to support a range of groups. Our availability form lists these.
The training for facilitators will be run online via Zoom:
- Wednesday 17th November
- Wednesday 24th November
- Wednesday 1st December
- During w/c 6th December week you will be able to attend a meeting of your choice
- Wednesday 15th December
If you have availability at the above times and can reliably commit to facilitating a group, please fill out our application form and availability form (below) and return it to service@changesbristol.org.uk no later than 9am on Monday 8th November (but please apply as soon as you can – we cannot train everyone that applies so there will be an informal phone interview).
We will process applications and conduct brief telephone interviews with those that meet our criteria ahead of the training.
Meeting Facilitator Information
Meeting Facilitator Application Form
Please send completed applications to service@changesbristol.org.uk or contact Jason on 0117 941 1123 for more information.