Lucia Kramer, AED/PCS Senior Program Officer, traveled to Nazareth, Ethiopia in late October 2000 to facilitate a seven-day training of trainers workshop on Interpersonal Communications and Counseling Skills for Reproductive Health Providers. The week-long training was attended by fifteen paticipants who came from the five regions of Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, Southern and Addis Ababa. The objective of the workshop was to have a group of core trainers trained in the facitilation of a workshop to develop interpersonal communication and counseling skills for reproductive health providers. A variety of training support methods such as role-plays, exercises, group work, demonstrations, video, etc., was used during the sessions, as well as group discussions in Amharic.