The People I met - August 26, 2011


Facilitator (Trainer) in an NGO, Lucknow.

I never forget the day when I have visited one of the centers in UP on August 26, 2011. I have drawn so much inspiration after meeting one of the trainers on that day.
Meeting people and knowing something about them is always fun for me and I enjoy doing so. I always feel blessed being in this organisation that I have so much access to reach people across the country to learn something new from them and share with the world. I have read somewhere that ‘sharing always doubles one's knowledge’, since then I have been sharing what I have learnt from different sources like; books, training programs and especially from different people whom I met. I am content in this journey.
It was my first visit to the training centers in UP,  I noticed that some of our facilitators were chewing tobacco and for them it was quite common in UP. Among four of them three were habituated to tobacco. I understood the intensity of their habit, I felt to do something for them but I didn’t know what to do. I knew that I have very less time to spend with them. I have recollected about an activity (it’s a kind of an ice breaker) and started working on that.
Since it was a sensitive issue, I was struggling with questions like, what if they feel offended? Does this help them or am I simply going to spoil the relationship with them? etc. I had to take extra care to facilitate the entire activity.
The activity was a kind of ‘self introspection’, prior to conduct that activity I met all of those facilitators and sat with them separately, without asking about their habit, I have tried to explain about the consequences and how it would impact their family life. I also explained them about the philosophy and culture of the training center, I took utmost care while facilitating. I have created a pleasant environment by building rapport and comforted them.
At last I gave a two page document to each one of them in which there was some illustration on the consequences of chewing tobacco. I gave the documents to all and requested them to go through after sometime when they reach home.
That was a small effort from my side and I have forgotten the very next moment that it would have some impact on the lives of those three facilitators.
I was so excited and inspired to meet one among them whom I met almost three years ago at training center.
While other two left the organisation and the facilitator whom I met was sharing about his experience with me on August 26, 2011. I was delighted to know that he has been relieved from this deadly vice from the next moment he was counselled. He shared his experience and the happiness and joy he is experiencing with his family and friends. He said that he realised the importance of his role as a facilitator, since then he has been a role model to aspirants, he has been sharing and spreading this to many more in his life, he is happy and content for impacting the life of some of his friends who were having this habit.

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