Creative Exchanges
Training for activities coordinators
Are you working in a care setting? Do you have a passion for arts and culture which you would like to share with others?
What is Creative Exchanges?
Creative Exchanges is a training course for activities coordinators in care settings and people from an arts background with an interest in working with older people. It trains participants to plan and facilitate arts activities for older people.How does it work?
The course offers high-quality training. Participants will develop the skills needed to plan and facilitate arts activities for older people in residential and day care settings.
Topics covered include:
- The principles and characteristics of person-centred care
- Planning for activities with older people
- Using visual arts
- Exploring music-based movement and drama-related activities
- Utilising digital media to explore image and sound
- Person-centred communication
- Working creatively with people who have dementia
Creative Exchanges offers an understanding of the value of creative activity, particularly in a care setting; experience of taking part in arts-based workshops and practical skills to carry out creative activities with people in residential and day care settings.
How can I get involved?
If you are an activities coordinator, working in a residential or day care setting or an artist interested in engaging with older people in a care setting, this course is for you.
No prior qualifications are required, but an interest in arts and creativity or working with older people, as well as a commitment to attend the training is essential.
We will announce course dates here as they are confirmed.
Contact
For information speak to Fiona Holohan in our Engage team.
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Learning, education and engaging with your local community offers a number of benefits including
- happiness and empowerment
- mental wellbeing
- increased self-awareness and expression
- development of new skills and interests
- providing a sense of self control
- social connection
- reduced depression and anxiety
- reduced stress levels
- improved cognition
- sense of identity and personhood
- increased self-esteem and confidence
