… about our conflict resolution workshops
- The training was excellent. It was well thought out and very relevant to the community pharmacy staff. They were able to see how effective using the approaches given would be in their work.
- The hand-outs and the training were very good and definitely tailored to the participants involved.
Medicines Management Project Coordinator, NHS Nottingham City
- Complete afternoon was interesting helpful and fantastic.
Healthy Living Leads, Nottingham City Pharmacies
- Building the 5 squares in silence was very challenging but definitely enabled us to work as a team.
- Good ideas – I liked the four Fs; was an approach that I would definitely try.
- Great activities that can be transferred into a classroom context.
Student teachers, Nottingham Trent University
- The conflict resolution workshop was really good!
Goose Fair tutor
… about our Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) workshops
- Highly satisfactory, commended by students, responsive to our needs and professionally provided.
Commissioning professor, University of Nottingham
- Does not need improving. Excellent session. Charismatic way of delivering info. Enthusiastic trainers.
- It was great, the most useful training I have done in a long time. I am taking away so much to improve my practice as a health professional.
NHS staff
- I came into the workshop with, I suppose, prejudices from the media – but no actual knowledge on Gypsy/Roma/Travellers – so it was useful to learn knowledge on these. My perceptions and attitudes have changed.
Postgraduate social work student, University of Nottingham
… about our Support Services
- Astren’s abilities to listen, reflect insight on agendas and provide incisive guidance, sharpens the training toolkit.
- (…) with Astren’s ready pool of ideas for format, it was easy to plan the training session using the material I hoped to cover.
- Astren facilitated my creative and analytical processes to come up with a training event which I could go on to deliver.
Mediator, Edinburgh Community Mediation Service
… about our Goose Fair Tuition Service
- This experience has really helped me grow as a teacher.
- It’s been an amazing and really worthwhile experience. Thank you.
Goose Fair tutors
- Fantastic! Honest to God, it was fantastic!
- It was fantastic, I can’t praise it enough! I wish something like this could be done everywhere, it was outstanding.
Goose Fair Showmen mums