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Dementia Training Rooted in Relationship and Creative Engagement
How many brain images can one look at before it becomes impersonal? How much longer can we sit behind a computer screen to gain education hours? Can we truly transform how we care for those living with dementia and their families with the current education model? Yes, the neuroscience of dementia is important to know. Yes, the medical and clinical knowledge one gains through education is necessary. But how does the education you receive truly inform your care practices, helping you become better at your job? Not just better, but great, less likely to burn out, more engaged with those you serve, and able to see your day-to-day tasks, not as a to-do item, but as a moment to love another. I provide dementia education from a place of relationship. It is not about replacing your standard of identity for your companies education, but expanding upon that training to make what you want to see – real. How can you use our medical and clinical knowledge to make sure we “do no harm” and then elevate the beauty of human connection to make sure we provide the best care possible?
Wealthy in…
A workshop series that specifically looks to magnifying what is still good, beautiful, and flourishing in dementia and aging.
Wealthy in Creativity
Creative Engagement and Dementia – Cultivating a vibrant community through the understanding and power of creativity. How by engaging in creativity the entire community has a chance to flourish.
Wealthy in Connection
Building a Successful Life Enrichment Team and Program. Looking at your current calendar and discovering how to expand on what you already offer and create new programs.
Wealthy in Joy
Living a 3- Dimensional Life, Fully Alive, while on the Professional Care Partner Journey is possible. Through Quarterly Masterminds, we gather together to learn the foundations of creative engagement, learn simple ways to become relational with our clients and residents, and engage in enter mentorship sessions to create a better social care program in your care organization.
Wealthy in Faith
Why faith matters, including faith in your life enrichment programming, partnership with local faith communities, professional development for your chaplains, and finding simple was to bring the Hem of Christ to those living with dementia.
In partnership with the Hem of Christ.
Wealthy in Purpose
Purpose is more than a job or a specific role we play. Each person was created with a unique purpose that exists from first breath to final breath. Let’s explore ways that we can magnify purpose when health starts to decline.
Understanding Dementia
A 4-hour interactive training in dementia that balances both research and reality to provide participants with the foundation they need to live a flourishing life with dementia. (1-hour version also available)
Wealthy in Creativity
We cover the basics of dementia, going over different forms of dementia, current statistics, briefly looking at the cost of dementia, and basic ways to work with individuals with dementia. A resources guide is provided upon completion of the training that will also include community and national resources.
We explore new ways to view behaviors, develop life enrichment programs, explore palliative care,
Young Ambassadors
This workshop covers the basics of dementia presented in a way suitable for school age children.
For School Aged Children
We are all living with dementia, some of us will even enter professions supporting those living with dementia. Therefore our education can never start too soon, and the conversations should never be feared.
Presented in a way suitable for elementary to high schools, as a visiting class lecture or school assembly. The basics of dementia are presented in an age appropriate manner.
Purple Angel
By becoming a Purple Angel you join a network of other places in the community that have made a commitment to understanding dementia so that they may best serve those with dementia and their care partners. Our time covers the specifics of how to navigate dementia relationships in the workplace, be it through clients, customers, consumers, and visitors.
Working with Dementia
Become a Dementia Friendly organization, cafe, store, company, any place of business or service by becoming a Purple Angel. When becoming a Purple Angel, you will receive for your staff the Understanding Dementia and Working with Dementia training sessions free of cost. Your commitment to this program is simple: Go through one or both of the training programs listed above, decide how you want to remain dementia friendly, and receive and display the Purple Angel logo. To learn more about this program visit: purpleangel-global.com.