The principles and practice of AMBIT are both simple and yet easily lost. Teams using AMBIT need to plan on-going training as part of sustaining practice (see SUSTAIN best practice). Sustaining good practice is usually not so much about learning new methods of practice but more about practicing and reflecting on core methods and problems.

How often?

We suggest that a team using the AMBIT approach should aim to have a refresher training event at least every three months. This can be for one to two hours. This is what we would recommend as a minimum amount of AutoDidact training. Such training events can be facilitated by the AMBIT leads, using material from the manual.

Audit your training needs

Use the APrAT audit tool to develop ideas about where there might be gaps in your team's practice and understandings. See APrAT exercise in, or across, teams

Resources

In this manual we provide multiple examples of training activities that a team can choose to do:

See Training exercises for ways to sort through what is here

See Suggested Team Training Sessions for some "pre-sorted" suggestions

Do It Yourself: AMBIT leads and team members are encouraged to devise their own training event according to their own preferences and the priorities for the team. See Local AMBIT training session plans (If you are using this manual as a member, and it is in Edit mode, then you will see "create a new page" as the bottom item on the drop down menu!)

Top Tips

In designing your own training activity, we suggest that material in the manual may be helpful in a number of ways. See an EXAMPLE of a local training session which suggests an effective structure for a session.

1. Download training slides from the basic training and use some of them as basis for discussion and reflection about current practice in the team (see Training slides).

2. Find some video material to begin discussion or practice around an issue. Video material can be found by putting 'video' into the search function and this will list a range of video material in the manual (see Videos and look in the references at the top of the page to see all the pages linked to this page).

3. There are a range of exercises in the manual that can be used to encourage practice (see Training exercises).

4. Try taking a specific case you thin you have managed WELL, and apply the APrAT audit tool as a way of reflecting on practice. Now apply the same tool to a case that you felt was UNSUCCESSFUL.