12 practical topics, three days in Nairobi, and a session of your own designed, delivered to a room that has been told not to be kind, and rebuilt on what they tell you.
Practical learning experiences delivered across Africa. A few moments from previous Vantage Africa cohorts:
Most training is judged on the room: did people turn up, did they enjoy it, did the slides work. None of that tells you whether anybody can do anything differently on Monday.
A session built backwards from what people must be able to do, instead of forwards from everything you happen to know.
A short video on why the best trainer in the room is rarely the one doing most of the talking.
Video holder · Add approved clip hereKeep the quiet ones in it, the loud ones useful, and the session pointed at the objective it was written for.
A good presenter is admired. A good trainer is copied, because the people in the room leave able to do the thing. That difference is made in the design, long before anybody stands up.
The pathway is designed around what you will be able to do. You begin guided virtual learning as soon as you register, then build on it during three practical days in Nairobi, 5–7 April 2027.
What training is for, finding the real need, and the communication it rests on.
Three focused days designing, delivering and being pulled apart for it, in Nairobi.
Proposed allocation: topics 1–5 are guided online and cover what training is for and the skills it rests on; topics 6–12 are worked through during the three physical days, where you design a session and stand up and deliver it. Every topic is drawn from the current Vantage training of trainers curriculum.
Explore each topic below. The real test is whether the people in your room can do the thing afterwards.
Smiles at the end of a session are not evidence. What gets checked here is whether the objectives were written so that somebody could tell whether they were met, whether the activities actually produce the skill rather than describe it, and whether your evaluation looks past the room at what people did afterwards.
Join the 12-topic pathway →Something your organisation genuinely needs people to be able to do.
Specific enough that somebody else could tell whether you got there.
Activities, timings, aids, and the point at which people practise instead of listen.
To peers who have been asked to play the difficult learner on purpose.
Past the feedback form, to what people were doing differently a month later.
The reference material comes with the programme. The thing worth carrying home is a session you designed, delivered and rebuilt on what the room told you — so the first people to sit through it are not your colleagues back at work.
StudyGenius guides you through progressive skill-building, practice, feedback and applied challenges. Try a lesson free.
Explore StudyGenius ↗Video placeholder — insert an approved clip of Dr. Benson facilitating a practice session.
You are not simply buying training days. You are investing in the person who will run every training your organisation gives from now on, and a community of peers.
18,000+ professionals trained across 30+ countries, including government, NGO and development-sector teams.
Guided by Dr. Benson Kiarie and experienced faculty, who have spent twenty years in front of exactly this kind of room.
Observable work, feedback and practical checks — and a session you have already delivered once, in front of people who were not easy on you.
Reading about facilitation is not facilitation. Every participant designs a session and delivers part of it to the group — who have been asked not to be kind. One will be on their phone. One will be the expert who disagrees with you. One will say nothing at all. Then you hear what they saw, and you do it again.
See the 12 topics →Peers and facilitators tell you what worked, where you lost the room and what to change — the uncomfortable hour that does more than the other two days put together.
You leave having been watched, not just having watched.
The programme is built around practical work rather than attendance. You run a needs analysis, design a session, deliver it in front of peers who are playing difficult on purpose, and rebuild it on what they tell you.
Yes. The pathway covers all 12 topics, 5 guided online and 7 in the room, subject to the programme’s formal assessment decisions.
The first 5 are introduced through guided online work before the workshop and cover what training is for and the skills it rests on. The remaining 7 form the focus of the three physical days in Nairobi, where you design and deliver.
Yes. Under the standard-fee pathway, the $80 initial payment counts toward $580 and leaves $500 payable. The $480 offer is for early full payment, not the instalment plan.
The programme is planned for Nairobi, Kenya on 5–7 April 2027. The exact venue will be confirmed by the Vantage Africa team before a final booking commitment.
No. It suits anybody who has to pass on skill: supervisors inducting new staff, technical specialists asked to brief colleagues, and M&E or programme officers who run workshops as part of the job.
Yes, and it is the part people are most grateful for afterwards. You deliver a portion of your session, not the whole thing, to a group who are in exactly the same position.
Yes. Contact Vantage Africa for an invitation letter, invoice or a tailored in-house proposal.
Let us tailor training of trainers, facilitation or a bespoke internal learning capacity pathway to your organisation, sector and challenges.
Contact Dr. Benson · +254 725 303 645 · bkiarie@vantageafricaleaders.comBecome the person your organisation sends when the learning actually has to land.