Accompanying You on Your Dementia Journey
This self-paced training has been created to help you find new ways to become relational with your residents and clients, work together as a greater community of care partners, and discover ways to use creativity to help cultivate purposed filled programming and person-centered care.
And, as an added bonus, it is an evidenced-based model and a growing methodology of care.
Explore at your own pace, uncovering the beauty of fully using our gifts and skills.
We all crave connection and community, and we all have something to contribute to making this happen with those we serve. We are creative, talented, kind individuals seeking to advance our craft in ways that allow us to be even more impactful. So let’s come together to magnify what we have so that we can build out an ArtBin of skills and support.
Participants will journey through 4 models (20 lessons), learning new tools and approaches for creative engagement, building person-centered programs and breaking down the silos within our communities. Those who participate will have the chance to participate in weekly mentorship sessions and a roundtable conversation with others taking the course.
A seasoned professional or a student interested in entering care, and everyone in-between will walk away with a community and an “ArtBin” filled with the skills need navigate and magnify the beauty of our humanity.
By participating in this course, you not only will open doors for your own professional development, but the funds of this program go directly to help care family care partners access the training they need to best support their loved ones at no cost to them.
Programming rooted in dignity and purpose and meets both the standards and regulations set before you and beyond.
Residents and clients as they seek to live the best life they can regardless of the trials they encounter.
The skills and talents you bring to your role in as a professional care partner or senior living leader.
Families, residents/clients and greater community to each other, weaving back together a community free from isolation.
A staff that works together in care, eliminating silos between sales and activities, HR and Nursing.
Becoming that person-centered care community you strive for, help you become an industry leader.
*Recorded videos for each topic that you will have lifetime access to revisiting as well as any updates that may be made to the content.
*PDF Workbook for you to print and use throughout each module.
*Mentorship and Roundtable Sessions to bring the information to life.
Lesson 0: Welcome and Thank You
Set up Mentorship
PDF Download: Full Workbook
Lesson 1: What is Accompaniment
Lesson 2: Ways of Communication
Lesson 3: Professional Accompaniment
Lesson 4: What is an Activity
Lesson 5: What is Engagement
Lesson 6: What is Enrichment
Lesson 7: Striving for Enrichment while working with Activities
Lesson 8: How All Staff are part of the Life Enrichment Team
Lesson 9: Uncovering Evidenced Based Approaches
Lesson 10: Creating Our Own Care Team
Lesson 12: Magnifying and Examining the Gifts and Talents We Bring to Our Role.
Lesson 13: Weaving Together and Interdepartmental Model of Care
Lesson 15: Seeing Behavior as an Invitation
Lesson 16: Understanding One’s Story
Lesson 17: Inviting Family Into Care
Lesson 19: Curiosity and Compassion When the Day is Tough
Lesson 20: Entering into Research, Resting in Humanity
Hi! I’m Kate Fassbender. With over 20 years of experience accompanying those living with dementia, and almost 10 years of being a dementia educator, I have walked this journey as a volunteer, family care partner, student, and professional care partner in a range of settings. I know firsthand the struggles of care, but I also know the joys. During our time together, I we will come uncover new ways of being in dementia care.
I created my first life enrichment program for those living with dementia while still a middle school student, and have not stopped exploring ways to improve and expand my craft in creative aging. I believe we all have something to offer the greater care partner community through our lessons, studies, and experiences.
I have worked with the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, various art museums throughout New York and Wisconsin, Renewal Memory Partners, Fox Valley Memory Project, TimeSlips, and Atria Assisted Living to name a few. And, have spoken internationally on creative engagement, dementia, and magnifying the important of professional care partner connection.
The Art of Accompaniment
Activity – Engagement – Enrichment
Working Together to Create a Community of Purpose
Transforming Challenges into Beautiful Moments of Connection
Burnout? Staffing Silos? Quick Turnover? Residents experiencing isolation within your community? These are three of the problems we will solve during our time together.
At the end of the 20 lessons you will have also learned new ways to build a community for yourself as a care partner while fostering a community for your residents/clients, You will have developed up to 4 programs specifically for your community, and discovered ways to offer programming that is creativity, purpose-filled, and new while still fulfilling the regulations you are required to follow.
Professional Care Partners working in Senior Living and Care (especially those in non-medical care)
Students and Individuals looking to enter activities or senior living professions.
Memory Café Facilitators
Museum Educators and Artists
$197 (Introductory Price)
$250 (If Registering after July 30th)
Special Pricing for Full Staff: $1,000 for your entire community until July 20th
Rolling Admission, so join when you are ready. You can expect to receive the modules no later than 24 hours after enrollment.
Mentorship calls are held on Wednesday and Thursdays at a time determined individually by each participant.
Roundtable Sessions held on the 4th Friday of the month at 11:00 Eastern.
Materials: Email and Online
Mentorship and Roundtable Sessions: Zoom
Dementia Letters Project and Kathryne Fassbender own this course, however, you will receive lifetime access to the program to revisit as needed.
Each participant must register for themselves unless purchased at the group rate for your entire staff.
Individuals will have lifetime access to the program.
Organizations will have 1 year of access, and must repurchase after 1 year if desired.
Registration is 2 Parts.
First fill out the form with your details and then pay for the course. You have only registered after you have successful completed both tasks.
Complete the two steps here: https://dementialettersproject.com/register/
The Connect and Create Institute started as a small online conference for Life Enrichment Specialists back in 2018 in hopes that every type of care partner could be supported in networking with others in similar roles, and grow in knowledge and skills to navigate the day-to-day of senior living programming. Today, I am re-launching the Connect and Create Institute to better address the trials and uplift the triumphs of non-medical care partners and support new care partners as they enter their professional life.
We know that insolation is devastating to our health and care partners are equally, if not more, susceptible to loneliness. We also know that when taking a broad look at the professional landscape, care partners in dementia are undertrained by 230-280* hours of formal education. Not to mention the lack of support for family care partners. This gap in education in multiplied for those working in activities and through social connection means in our senior living communities, care organizations, and in our homes. The Connect and Create Institute is a place where we can bridge the gap between professional development, community, and service.
*When we look at an average Activities Director only needing 180 of specified training if required at all.
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