In 1955 just after the company was founded, I was teaching
in South Africa and a colleague then teaching NUD*IST (N3) said she was trying
to get funds to come to Australia to my next workshop. I said she didn’t need a
workshop but if she’d be helped by being there, she could come in for free as a
helper – all she needed was the fare. She wrote to say she was coming. And to
our amazement, so did 15 others from round the world, when I generalized the
invitation to anyone already teaching our software.
Thus began the first trainer
training, attended by many of those who today are pillars of the loosely
constructed network of over 70 colleagues who helped others use QSR software. I
taught trainer training events annually till I left QSR, and some of my best friends
and my happiest memories from QSR work are from those times.
Here is one
such memory. In 2003,
Ted Barrington,
Leonie Daws and I drove a minibus from Melbourne to Bowral to deliver a
multinational trainer group to
Pat Bazeley
for a workshop. Why did it take three
drivers? Well, we did critical appraisal of Rutherglen wineries on the way, and
sociological studies of Australian country towns (pictured), and the songs were
in five languages.
Leonie took the photo.
