Description
Massaging Persons Living with Dementia
Cornwall – Saturday, August 16
Blue Lotus Therapy Centre,
Scorrier House Workshops,
Redruth TR16 5AU
A 1-day course open to anyone wishing to explore the use of therapeutic touch to enhance wellbeing and improve engagement with a person living with dementia on their terms and with dignity.
We’ll cover specialist massage techniques on easily accessible areas of the body i.e. the arms, hands and face with a view to meeting needs and facilitating expressing emotions in a dementia friendly way.
We’ll explore the intricacies of consent, how the law impacts us and the benefits of massage so you can sell your service well all through a trauma informed lens.
We’ll take a look at how the brain is impacted by dementia to understand certain behaviours and then focus on compassionate communication giving you immediately useable tools to connect without words and traverse the rocky road of relationships with your loved one or client more smoothly.
“When words escape us, touch says it all.”
No qualifications needed – just hands and an open heart.
* Covering accessible massage and therapeutic touch techniques
* For qualified bodywork therapists, carers, family, friends & dementia professionals
* Limited availability
* Add to your compassionate communication toolbox to fulfil unmet needs
* Navigate verbal and nonverbal consent
* Understand how the law empowers you and your client
* Distil the benefits of massage specifically for people living with dementia to start to sell your service well
* Explore understanding some presentations and behaviours to work towards meeting needs, easing anxiety and reducing medication needs through nurturing touch.
* Provide meaningful engagement through “person led” and “holistic” approaches
* Increase confidence and competence working in this field
* For qualified bodywork therapists, carers, family, friends & dementia professionals
You can book both the Massaging Persons Living with Dementia course, 0n Saturday, August 16, and course and the Aromatherapy for Persons Living with Dementia course, on Sunday, August 17, as a package for £350 (a saving of £50) – please choose the option on the checkout.
1-1 Training
1-1 training may be preferable because you would like a personal touch, 1-1 is your preferred style of learning or one of the planned dates does not suit you. 1-1 training provides you with flexibilty of training to suit your specific needs and goals. Please click on the 1-1 training button. It is a good idea to get in touch 1st so that you can confirm a date that is suitable for us both. You can book one-toone training
here or by
contacting Nicolle by email
After successfully completing the course, either in a group or 1-1, qualified therapists will gain CPD points with one or more of the professional bodies. Carers and other professionals will receive a certificate of attendance.
‘The course was far wider than just massage and I have been trying things out with the dementia people in one of the care homes I visit with remarkable results. One lady who just sits and does not interact with anyone happily told us all about the war and what Windsor was like when she was a young girl’ JC, Massage Therapist, Fleet, Hants
“An opportunity to learn how to enable people who have dementia feel comfortable about having massage & nurturing touch, learning specialist techniques that reflect understanding the world from your client or loved one’s perspective.”