Stage 3 - Quiet Voice Methodology Practitioner Licence

 

Gaining your QVM Practitioners’ Licence means that you can cite QVM in your Professional Development Record and community work. It also means that you’ll be connected to an ongoing QVM community of practice.

Learning Outcomes

Being Reflective - Who's Not Here?

Unit 7 - Making the Theory Work - Proximity, proximity, Proximity

By the end of this Unit you should be able to:-

  • Explain why being visible in your Place, over a period of time is important.
  • Create your own customised Behaviour Mapping proforma.
  • Create a plan to establish proximity.
  • Describe the characteristics of a performing Quiet Voice Pod.

Unit 8 - Holding Your First POD meeting/Building A Plan

By the end of this Unit you should be able to:-

  • Set a comfortable and welcoming meeting space that is suited to the characteristics of your Pod.
  • Demonstrate effective listening allowing your participants to feel heard.
  • List at least three ways to listen to your broader community.
  • Recognise opportunities to weave creative ideas together.
  • List four ways of gathering written feedback from participants.
  • Direct participants to more than one online survey option.
  • Create a fundraising plan for a street project.
    Solicit local business sponsorship.
  • Facilitate scheduled brainstorming sessions with your Pods.

Unit 9 - working With Marginalised Groups

By the end of this Unit you should be able to:-

  • Describe what being marginalised means.
  • Understand the key principles for supporting marginalised groups and individuals.
  • List at least three strategies that may support participation.
  • An extra outcome is an invitation to create your own wellness toolbox.

Doing The Work

Unit 10 - Facilitating Community Events

By the end of this Unit you should be able to:-

  • Plan a publicity campaign for your finale event.
  • Provide a definition for the term “animateur”.
  • Name at least three effective publicity options.
  • Design an effective poster.
  • List as least four potential hazards that might occur indoors.
  • List as least four potential hazards that might occur out-of-doors.
  • Prepare a Risk Assessment to reveal these hazards and show how they will be managed.
  • Describe why it is important to ensure that everyone receives a big THANK YOU.

Unit 11 - Co-Creating Events, Exhibitions, Trails, Interpretation Boards, Events

By the end of this Unit you should be able to:-

  • Find the most convenient, low-cost space for your Pod meetings/events.
  • Make the most of available outdoor spaces.
    Know when to advise the Pod to re-purpose, reuse and up-cycle.
  • Choose the right method to encourage pay-it-forward donation.
  • List as least four circumstances when it would be wise to commission an expert.

Unit 12 - Compliance - Why It's Important

By the end of this Unit you should be able to:-

  • List at least 6 important things to remember in relation to Data Protection.
  • State exactly what data can be held for participants and Pod members.
  • List at least 6 ways in which an adult might be described as “vulnerable”.
  • List three expectations when planning expenditure on your project.
  • Know where, in your supporting organisation’s Policy documentation, to look up the details of the Equality Act 2010.
  • Know where, in your supporting organisation’s Policy documentation, to find a Risk Assessment template.

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