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  Stepping Stones
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Stepping Stones — workshop sessions

The Stepping Stones workshops are designed to be held with four peer groups drawn from a community at the same time. They consist of 14 sessions held with separate peer groups, two meetings of the peer groups together and opening and closing meetings for the whole community.

1. Let’s Communicate — To help a peer group form itself. To help participants develop skills of listening and analysis of communication and cooperation.
2. Our perceptions — To help participants recognise how much perceptions influence our judgements of ourselves and others. A first look at images of sex.
3. What is love? — What we look for and expect to give in love.
4. Our prejudices — To challenge the judgements which we make about another.
5. HIV — To explore our knowledge about HIV and "safer sex".
6. Condoms — To continue our discussions about safer sex and to familiarise participants with use of the condoms.
7. Our options — To consider different possible future strategies which we may have in our lives.
8. Let’s look deeper (Part 1) — To study why we behave in the ways we do.
9. Let’s look deeper (Part 2) — A development of the previous session.
10. Let’s support ourselves — To find new skills to change the ways in which we behave.
11. Let’s assert ourselves — To develop more assertiveness skills.
12. Let’s change ourselves — To put these new skills into practice.
13. Let’s work together — To develop understanding between partners.
14. Let’s prepare for the future — To think of possible future decisions and changes
    

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What users say

"We have found SS a very useful and stimulating manual... The "I" statements exercise was especially popular with a group of older women. We also used these exercises with our youth programme that works with young women."
Women and AIDS Support Network,, Harare, Zimbabwe.

"Stepping Stones is ideal for the rural communities... The idea of targeting all the groups in the community (i.e. young/old men, young/old women) and bringing them together for some sessions is a good one as it means that everyone is involved.
Linda Ncube and Lucia Malemane, Matabeleland AIDS Council, Zimbabwe