Creative Tools for Working With Diverse Needs
Learn how to recognise overstimulation, and develop tools to co-regulate, connect and redirect. Three modules cover behaviour as communication, sensory balance for kaimahi (workers) and clients, and regulation ‘first aid’ to support people who’ve experienced medical/family/incident trauma.
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Description
Learn how to recognise overstimulation, and develop tools to co-regulate, connect and redirect. Three modules cover behaviour as communication, sensory balance for kaimahi (workers) and clients, and regulation ‘first aid’ to support people who’ve experienced medical/family/incident trauma.
This is a three-stage workshop series, designed to implement sustainable change for support workers and therapists. Working with your whole team, we guide kaimahi through collaborative learning, with practical tools for working with tamariki and rangatahi.
What do the modules cover?
- Module 1: Behaviour as expression and communication
Learn how to see beyond behavioural or punitive approaches, and discover ways to de-escalate and connect prior, during and after challenging moments. Discover the foundations of behaviour as communication, which particularly benefits kaimahi who support non or minimally speaking people. - Module 2: Sensory balance, co-regulation and autism
Learn about your own nervous system, and discover how to incorporate small sensory changes to calm yourself (and therefore co-regulate with others!) when working in challenging situations. Apply this learning to supporting tamariki and rangatahi to integrate their own sensory system and regulate their emotions. Learn about sensory processing differences in autism, and how to support sensory integration for this community. - Module 3: Regulation ‘first aid’ and trauma
Learn about how trauma affects our bodies and brains, and how you can support people in very simple ways to connect and grow in a healthy community. Learn memorable and effective tools to provide regulation ‘first aid’.
What outcomes can I expect?
- Recognise overstimulation, and learn tools to co-regulate with the people you support
- Develop simple tools to connect and redirect BEFORE situations escalate
- Understand sensory balance, and use this to create a calmer environment for you and your clients
- Increase your understanding of autism spectrum disorders, and how sensory processing differences affect tamariki and rangatah
- Understand what calms your own nervous system, in order to provide best care and co-regulate with the people you support
- Reduce incidents of property/personal/relational harm or outbursts
- Understand basic trauma theory, and apply this to understanding medical/family/incident trauma
- Develop a working knowledge of rupture and repair, and simple structures to support those who have experienced trauma
What’s unique about this workshop?
- Aligns with the Enabling Good Lives Principles (Self-determination, Beginning early, Person-centred, Ordinary lifeoutcomes, Mainstream first, Mana enhancing, Easy to use, Relationship building)
- Explores Te Whare Tapa Whā in the context of wellbeing for people living with disabilities
- Focus on building resilience and sustainable practice change
- Addressing specific needs and practices
- Delivered by Registered Dance Movement Therapist and Registered Music Therapist
How is this workshop delivered?
- 2-2.5 hour workshop, depending on your needs
- Face to face with your team, with online option over Zoom
- Includes pre-workshop consultation visit/phone call/Zoom to tailor our delivery to your needs
- Optional follow-up visit/phone call/Zoom to support teams to integrate their learning, and provide further support (recommended)
Our facilitators have delivered professional development programmes to over 400 teachers and professionals throughout Tai Tokerau, via both previous SELO contracts and professional workshops.
Contact us for pricing and scheduling.