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I hope you are well. We are exited to announce details of our new online course “Making Sense of our Senses”. It is starting on 3rd February and will run over 4 weeks. Please see full details below.
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This innovative course, which runs over four weekly online sessions, explores each of our senses and how they impact and inform how we take in information from our environment, ascribe meaning to it and store the information. Creative tools to foster sensory processing and integration will be practiced and explored enabling developmentally appropriate interactions to be utilised to encourage healthy development.
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The course focuses on using common items and basic, easy to access supplies to heighten awareness and integration for the child or adolescent. Key techniques are introduced and demonstrated by the trainer and participants have opportunities to practice using these therapeutic approaches themselves. We explore how the information we gather through our senses underpins our understanding of the world before language acquisition or development, and we can utilise this for healthy development at all ages.
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The course is designed to equip professionals, and parents and carers, with tools for themselves and the children and teenagers they support and care for.
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Participants are required to have the following tools.
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- Sound cancelling headset or confidential room to participate in
- A computer or other suitable device (e.g. i pad), ideally, but not essentially, with built in (or external) microphone, speaker and camera.
- Uninterrupted internet connection
Note: Please only use one devise during each session – if you have difficulties with sound (microphone or volume) on computer, use of external microphone and/or speakers works better than adding a second devise.
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And if possible, creative materials that include:
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- A4 paper and a scissors
- Art material - g. crayons, colouring pencils, markers
Before the training, participants will receive handouts that they can print to use in the training. All participants will receive a Certificate of Completion.
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Facilitator: Emer McDonagh Emer Mc Donagh S.I.A.P.T.P., holds an MA in Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapy and Play Therapy and a BA (HONS) in Applied Social Studies in Social Care. Emer is Assistant Course Leader here at CTC. She has extensive experience working with children who have experienced domestic violence and also with non-residential parents and their children, maintaining and promoting quality contact. Emer has been involved in the Daphne III programme Responding to Child Parent Violence action research project, training in Non Violent Resistance and the Break 4 Change programme targeting services to families affected by Child Parent Violence. Emer has also completed Intensive Filial Therapy Training, and mindfulness training. Emer also provides a family support role with families affected by meningitis. She has developed a number of workshops to support adults such as “You, Your Thoughts & Your Actions”, addressing stress and anxiety, “Don’t Just Survive, Thrive!, parenting children affected by meningitis”. She has also developed and facilitated workshops to support whole families including “Reconnecting after Meningitis” and the sibling support workshop “Me Too!”. Emer has worked with the Brothers of Charity services and been involved in a number of Humanitarian aid projects in both Ethiopia and Peru. Email: emer_m@hotmail.com Phone: 087 6841231
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To book your place please click here
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Please let me know if you have any queries.
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