Participation in all meetings and workshops was voluntary and the researchers established 'ground rules' at the start of each meeting or workshop to ensure that their health service colleagues felt suitably comfortable in what could have become potentially conflictual engagements among the members of HAST team.
There will also be a 45-minute session at the start or the end of each workshop where further literary extracts or pre-set texts will be discussed and further technical exercises set, or for visiting speakers to hold seminars and answer questions.
Karen Cirillo, who has worked with the initiative in eighteen countries, said, "At the start of the workshop, [the children] didn't know each other, they didn't know us and they didn't know what to expect, but then they opened up and became friends and worked together.
At the start of the workshop, he peered mischievously at the boys in his charge.
The career-breaks issue weighed heavy on Bridle's mind at the start of the workshop last September; she was 7 months pregnant and her maternity leave was imminent.
In an effort to prepare the students for the workshop using minimal class time, I have developed a set of questions that are used as a reflection paper prompt for the students to complete prior to the start of the workshop.
At the start of the workshop, held in a sylvan setting, many vets sat with arms crossed, with looks of polite skepticism.
Participants also stated that compared to the start of the workshop, they felt more capable of handling feeling down/depressed at times.
This is an appealing option when one does not want to expose too many new concepts to trainees at the start of the workshop.
To support this reflective process, participants are asked at the start of the workshop to say what they perceive as the most important challenges they face in their practice in terms of improving diabetes management.
