Arts & Dementia
Training Day
10am – 5pm, 1st March 2014, Liverpool
Over the past five years Collective Encounters has amassed considerable experience working in the field of arts and dementia. We have delivered a long-term programme of creative arts workshops with people with dementia and their carers in community and care home settings; toured performances in care homes; developed performance work to be used in a training context for health care professionals and delivered a training programme for carers in how to use the arts more effectively in their work. We have supported this practical work with an extensive research programme which began with a full literature review of academic and grey literature dealing with best practice and the benefits of arts and dementia. Publications include: Arts and Dementia: a summary report; A pocket guide to arts activities for people with dementia: a toolkit for carers; and a series of advice sheets for artists.
Co-facilitated by Collective Encounters’ Artistic Director and Creative Producer, this is a full-day training session introducing experienced artists to working with people with dementia. Training methodology will involve tutor presentation, group discussion and action learning sets. Participants will be provided with high quality materials to take away with them to support and remind them of their learning. By the end of the day participants will have developed:
Over the past five years Collective Encounters has amassed considerable experience working in the field of arts and dementia. We have delivered a long-term programme of creative arts workshops with people with dementia and their carers in community and care home settings; toured performances in care homes; developed performance work to be used in a training context for health care professionals and delivered a training programme for carers in how to use the arts more effectively in their work. We have supported this practical work with an extensive research programme which began with a full literature review of academic and grey literature dealing with best practice and the benefits of arts and dementia. Publications include: Arts and Dementia: a summary report; A pocket guide to arts activities for people with dementia: a toolkit for carers; and a series of advice sheets for artists.
Co-facilitated by Collective Encounters’ Artistic Director and Creative Producer, this is a full-day training session introducing experienced artists to working with people with dementia. Training methodology will involve tutor presentation, group discussion and action learning sets. Participants will be provided with high quality materials to take away with them to support and remind them of their learning. By the end of the day participants will have developed:
- an enhanced understanding of
dementia
- an understanding of
person-centred care and relationship-centred care, and the ability to
apply this to their own arts practice
- an understanding the potential
benefits of using the arts with people with dementia
- increased awareness of the
unique creative potential of people with dementia
- an awareness of a range of arts
initiatives run successfully with people with dementia as case studies
- an understanding the particular
challenges of working with people with dementia, and
- a set of creative approaches to
overcome these challenges
- an understanding of the
challenges of working in a care home setting, and
- guidelines to make this process
run more smoothly
- confidence in their ability to
run creative workshops with people with dementia
