Living Well, Our Plan

Family and Supporting Partners' 1-2-1 Dementia Skills and Support Planning tailored to the person experiencing dementia's unique needs

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iCARER Communication Awareness Session

iCARER: an easily learned acronym for skillful therapeutic interaction (validation), crucial when the well-being of everyone is under threat.

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Let's Talk Counselling

Managing emotions can be hard, learn how to move beyond the many losses that life throws at us

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Training Film: Therapeutic Conversational Skills

Conversations that Matter - Breaking Through Dementia. A 45 minute DVD and an estimated 6 hours of validation coaching material. Great value!

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Essential dementia training in therapeutic conversations, support group work and grief recovery.

Our values are simple, 'we want the world to be a better place to live with dementia.' We strive to offer excellent and affordable dementia skills training for care professionals, organisation, and families.

UK Person-centred approach to validation training

Julia Pitkin trained as a teacher in the Validation Method in the US and Person-centered Counselling Skills. The Therapeutic Dementia Practitioner & iCARER Facilitator's Training is the first of its kind in the UK.

We have developed a distinct validation training; a UK person-centred approach, offering a synergy of the Validation Method and the UK's best practice and use of language, therefore meeting the UK's dementia quality standards in person-centred care. The Validation Method (Naomi Feil, 1983, 2015) in the UK is not yet supported and guided by an Authorised Validation Organisation.

These communication skills, once gained are never lost, and transfer many other areas, such as supervision, support and mentoring.

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