Spark of Life 1-Day Seminars
About Our 1-Day Seminars
NEW Spark of Life Presentation:
How to Connect through Creativity
This 3.5 hour Education is for allied health professionals, diversional therapists, and lifestyle coordinators to learn how to use creativity in facilitating meaningful connections with people with dementia.
This course will cover:
- An intergenerational visual arts project
- Facilitation skills that are transferable to other creative arts programs
- Specific examples using real-life stories and footage
- Relevant evaluation tools for creative arts programs
- The course is provided live via Zoom and there is a maximum of 16 participants to enable the best possible learning experience and have questions answered
About this presentation
Creativity provides a new language that is liberated from the need to find words. This enables people with dementia to express their thoughts and feelings and resolve difficult times in their lives.
The expressive arts offer powerful ways of communicating with those who find that language has become difficult. By offering new ways of expression to people with dementia, the creative arts facilitate a powerful link between the person’s inner and outer world. These media use different cognitive pathways and thus offer a special means to stimulate feelings, memories, and imagination.
Creativity can also bring the generations together, helping them gain deep insights about each other and forge new connections between people.
This education session is focused on showing participants how to provide such intergenerational creative arts programs where people with dementia experience the healing effect of belonging, closeness, and friendship.
Participants will learn how to foster creativity through providing a psychological safe space and the need for offering stimulating experiences with an element of challenge. They will also receive practical skills to set up these programs for success.
Contact us for bookings and more information on info@dementiacareinternational.com
How to Ignite the Spark of Life – A Day on Culture Enrichment
This 1-day seminar brings a unique opportunity to experience the best of the internationally awarded Spark of Life Philosophy that enriches emotional care – the essence of person centred care.
This experiential education provides the skills to ignite the Spark of Life within the residents, clients and patients and each other in a team. It also provides practical strategies for the best possible way to connect and communicate, facilitate rementia and prevent and dissolve challenging behaviours.
Specific Learning Objectives
Participants will learn:
- Facilitate rehabilitation and independence
- Ensure people with dementia feel respected, valued and safe
- Empower the person to make choices and decisions
- Support the person in regaining their lost identity
- Understand the many different ways people with dementia communicate their needs and wants, approvals and disapprovals
- Deeply understand people with dementia, how they think and feel
- Foster improved relationships between staff, residents and their families
This innovative one-day seminar can be provided in a community or facility setting. Contact us for more information on info@dementiacareinternational.com
Solving Challenging Behaviour & Preventing the Need for Psychotropic Restraint
This day is for leaders, health care professionals and care staff working in the areas of Aged Care, Hospitals and Community Services.
Specific Learning Objectives
Participants will learn:
- To understand the root cause of conflict
- How to identify the 4 categories of unmet needs behind challenging behaviours
- How to meet these specific needs in a meaningful and lasting way
- How to understand the symbolic language of people with dementia
- A practical model for a team solution to solving specific challenging behaviour
*The prerequisite is to have participated in the one day education on ‘How to Ignite the Spark of Life – A Day on Culture Enrichment’.
Outcomes
The outcomes are the all needed shift from moving from a task orientated organisation to a person orientated organisation, and being able and empowered to shift the focus to the perspective and emotional needs of the individual they are caring for. This actively and practically addresses some of the urgent issues currently experienced in care such as the significant reliance on medical restraint.
This innovative one-day seminar can be provided in a community or facility setting. Contact us for more information on info@dementiacareinternational.com
The Heart Has No Wrinkles
This day is for leaders, health care professionals and care staff working in Aged and Dementia Care, Hospitals and Community Care Services.
Specific Learning Objectives
Participants will learn:
- Understand the root cause of conflict with sensitivity and compassion
- Take everyone’s needs into consideration
- Communicate with families about unmet sexual needs in people with dementia
- Understand one’s rights and responsibilities
- Assertively react if approached for sexual favours
- Avoid the fundamental mistakes
- Solve issues specific to your team and residents
Outcomes
This one-day seminar addresses every aspect of the question: “What do you do when people with dementia have unmet sexual needs and express them in ways that can be confronting and challenging for staff, families, and other residents?”
This is a complex subject, and it can be difficult to talk about, but it can be dealt with in a way that is respectful, shows empathy and takes everyone’s
needs into consideration.
Drawing on Advanced Systems Theory, Family Therapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming, Dementia Care International has developed a highly effective and unique education program on this very topic that is presented in a language that everyone can relate to.
This innovative one-day seminar can be provided in a community or facility setting. Contact us for more information on info@dementiacareinternational.com
Turning Stressful Showers into Enjoyable Experiences
So many little things we say and do can trigger either a positive or negative shower experience. Applying the Spark of Life Philosophy to the shower situation can facilitate a positive shift in experience for all involved.
This innovative one-day seminar can be provided in a community or facility setting. Contact us for more information on info@dementiacareinternational.com
We invite you to contact us for further details and to discuss your needs.
The Leadership Team at Maurice Zeffert Home, Perth, Western Australia describe the profound benefits of Spark of Life Education: