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02-09-2008, 11:36 PM
Upside Down and Inside Out: Supporting a Person in Crisis/ Supporting the People Who Care
One-day workshop presented by:
David Pitonyak
on
Monday December 1st 2008
at
NCVO, London
Registration info on this link
Description
This day-long workshop examines the strategies for supporting a person in crisis. The workshop focuses on specific physiological changes that overcome a person in distress, and strategies that make sense for the person and his or her caregivers.
Objectives
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will have developed knowledge in the following areas:
Understanding the reasons why a person may be in and out of crisis;
Developing supports that assure the person's safety and the safety of others;
Developing supports for the person's supporters;
The physiology of aggression: What happens to the body in the presence of threat;
Building a support plan that focuses on quality of life issues.
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Programme:
09.15 Registration
09:30 Introductions/housekeeping
09:40 Part One: The Importance of Relationships, Check Your Assumptions, Assure Safety/Minimize Threat, Get Organized About Health Care
11:00 Break
11:15 Part Two: Who Shows Up Matters, Support for the Person's Supporters
12:30 Lunch
13.30 Part Three: Difficult Behaviors as Messages, 7 Questions to Guide The Development of A Support Plan
15.00 Break
15.15 Part Four: Policy Issues
16.30 End
About David Pitonyak
David Pitonyak is interested in positive approaches to difficult behaviors. He believes that difficult behaviors are "messages" which can tell us important things about a person and his or her surroundings. Understanding the "meaning" of an individual's difficult behaviors is the first step in supporting the person (and the person's supporters) to change.
David also believes (to paraphrase Jean Clark), that a “person’s needs are best met by people whose needs are met.†Supporting a person with difficult behaviors begins with an honest assessment of the needs of the person’s supporters. Creating more responsive human services is possible only when we take responsibility for problems of the workplace culture. A healthy organization is an organization that invites all of its members to take an active role in decision-making, provides support to each member as defined by the member, and evaluates its success by the degree to which it lives up to its promises.
David has consulted with families and professionals throughout the United States, Canada, England, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands. He is the recipient of the 2005 Positive Approaches Award from The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (TASH). In 2001, David was presented with the Outstanding Professional Award by the Autism Society of America, Greater Roanoke Valley Chapter. David lives in Blacksburg, Virginia with his wife Cyndi and two sons, Joe and Sam.
Cost:£115 plus VAT per person to include all refreshments and workshop notes
Venue: The National Council for Voluntary Organizations (NCVO), Regent’s Wharf, 8 All Saints’ Street, London N1 9RL. (Not far from Kings Cross Station)
Registration info on this link
Print the attached PDF for your friends and colleagues
One-day workshop presented by:
David Pitonyak
on
Monday December 1st 2008
at
NCVO, London
Registration info on this link
Description
This day-long workshop examines the strategies for supporting a person in crisis. The workshop focuses on specific physiological changes that overcome a person in distress, and strategies that make sense for the person and his or her caregivers.
Objectives
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will have developed knowledge in the following areas:
Understanding the reasons why a person may be in and out of crisis;
Developing supports that assure the person's safety and the safety of others;
Developing supports for the person's supporters;
The physiology of aggression: What happens to the body in the presence of threat;
Building a support plan that focuses on quality of life issues.
http://dimagine.com/img12.jpg
Programme:
09.15 Registration
09:30 Introductions/housekeeping
09:40 Part One: The Importance of Relationships, Check Your Assumptions, Assure Safety/Minimize Threat, Get Organized About Health Care
11:00 Break
11:15 Part Two: Who Shows Up Matters, Support for the Person's Supporters
12:30 Lunch
13.30 Part Three: Difficult Behaviors as Messages, 7 Questions to Guide The Development of A Support Plan
15.00 Break
15.15 Part Four: Policy Issues
16.30 End
About David Pitonyak
David Pitonyak is interested in positive approaches to difficult behaviors. He believes that difficult behaviors are "messages" which can tell us important things about a person and his or her surroundings. Understanding the "meaning" of an individual's difficult behaviors is the first step in supporting the person (and the person's supporters) to change.
David also believes (to paraphrase Jean Clark), that a “person’s needs are best met by people whose needs are met.†Supporting a person with difficult behaviors begins with an honest assessment of the needs of the person’s supporters. Creating more responsive human services is possible only when we take responsibility for problems of the workplace culture. A healthy organization is an organization that invites all of its members to take an active role in decision-making, provides support to each member as defined by the member, and evaluates its success by the degree to which it lives up to its promises.
David has consulted with families and professionals throughout the United States, Canada, England, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands. He is the recipient of the 2005 Positive Approaches Award from The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (TASH). In 2001, David was presented with the Outstanding Professional Award by the Autism Society of America, Greater Roanoke Valley Chapter. David lives in Blacksburg, Virginia with his wife Cyndi and two sons, Joe and Sam.
Cost:£115 plus VAT per person to include all refreshments and workshop notes
Venue: The National Council for Voluntary Organizations (NCVO), Regent’s Wharf, 8 All Saints’ Street, London N1 9RL. (Not far from Kings Cross Station)
Registration info on this link
Print the attached PDF for your friends and colleagues