How that marketing is carried out depends very much on the nature and needs of the sponsoring organizations and the locale in which the program is being offered. The sponsor may find the program flier useful during the local advertising effort. Once the group of learners has been organized, here's generally how the peer-training process works. The following sequence repeats itself for each topic in a program. The sponsor provides training materials in regard to a certain topic.
Learners meet on a regular basis, for example, every two to four weeks in three-hour meetings.
Meetings are about three hours long. Between meetings, learners read the training materials in regard to the topic. Each meeting starts with some type of training activity, often just a one-hour, open discussion about the particular topic that the learners had just read about previous to coming to the meeting. In their groups, learners share any materials that they brought to share with other learners in their group, for example, policies, plans, etc., that were developed from applying new information and materials learned during the program 7. At the end of that meeting, each member evaluates the quality of that meeting and specifies what could have been done to make the meeting even better.