Coach Stories
Vignettes, anecdotes and quotes on Coach experience.
“There were things I learnt about myself, there was baggage I had that emerged, I felt like a new person”
- Coach, Yim’lo Sense making workshop (2023)
“As an ART coach I used my experience. I was once a patient advocate for ART”
- Coach, Yim’lo Sense making workshop (2023)
Know your story and self before you go to the players. We also had to learn and unlearn things about ourselves”
- Coach, Yim’lo Sense making workshop (2023)
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I live in a small town and some of the players are ART players and I was aPrEP coach, and I felt that I needed the other coach. The river had to go in different directions as the PrEP had to adapt and learn from the ART coach
- Coach, Yim’lo Sense making workshop (2023)
“There was a client/player that tested positive but refused to take ART, then they were referred to the social worker and they still refused. They agreed once I stepped in because I was committed to journeying with them”
- Coach, Yim’lo Sense making workshop (2023)
“The skills the coaches have and the program itself is effective. I do not want to lose that for my clinic. You need someone who is not after numbers, you need someone who is focused on care”
- Aurum staff member, Yim’lo Sense making workshop (2023)
“The site is working because the coaches are able to assist because they have time to follow up on the people they reach through outreach”
- Coach, Yim’lo Sense making workshop (2023)