Four adult educators from the North East/Brazil Project spent three months in Brazil in 1986 on "pilot" education ventures. The areas selected for collaboration were health and safety for lay officers and induction/leadership training for women. "Methods" courses were selected as the means to train lay officers as discussion leaders, since they are normally built around everyday, real problems and issues and focus on methods, materials, and content easy to grasp. The four-day courses were designed to develop a network of grassroots activists for health and safety in their workplaces and communities. In 4 courses, some 75 people were equipped to run informal education sessions or short courses. Another effort was directed at providing assertiveness training and confidence building games for use in women's groups, especially voluntary organizations. A pack of materials (games) was developed in which reading and writing skills were kept to a minimum and that included credible role playing situations. The materials were presented and discussion focused on adapting materials to the Brazilian situation. (YLB)