Training Options

Dementia Coaching

My coaching offers dementia awareness, and helps promote staff skills and confidence for any organisation that works with people living with dementia. I will come to your organisation and work alongside staff to provide simple and practical solutions to best support people living with dementia. This includes:

Engaging with the person(s) living with dementia
Talking to staff about their insights and knowledge
Trialing possible practical solutions for the person(s) living with dementia along with staff
Providing staff training and upskilling as required
Producing an on-going support plan for all staff and management to utilise.

This dementia coaching can offer staff new knowledge and practical skills. For example, using Teepa Snow's Hand-Under-Hand® approach to support a person living with dementia during mealtimes, or finding simple solutions to help create a person living with dementia's 'happy place'.

I have witnessed transformative interactions both with people living with dementia and staff. Which I believe offers profound and inspiring moments of change that can have a lasting effect.

Workshops

I am trained in Teepa Snow's Positive Approach to Care, and I deliver a variety of workshops. I currently offer the following workshop topics, which can be modified to meet your organisation's needs.

This workshop discusses what brain changes can occur for someone living with dementia. This aims to provide understanding of how dementia can impact a person's daily life including memory, executive function, language, sensory processing systems and emotions. With this understanding we then learn how we can adapt our physical approach and communication to best support a person living with these brain changes.

Understanding and adapting to brain changes

This workshop discusses what "challenging behaviours" can mean and helps learners to become curious about why someone living with dementia is reacting to a situation. Working out the "why" behind their reactions is key to meeting the individual's needs. This workshop emhpasises the need to adapt our approach and provides practical case scenarios to enable a shift from simply 'dealing with behaviours' to creating a positive and caring environment.

Understanding "challenging behaviours"

This workshop helps learners to understand how dementia can affect communication, which in turn can affect our ability to communicate with people living with dementia. Appreciating these communication barriers means we can then learn how to adapt our communication to best support people living with dementia. Therein lies the magic to providing care with dignity and respect.

Communication and dementia

Training Packages

I deliver training packages bespoke to any professional group or organisation, and are flexible to meet your needs. My training packages start at a minimum of two hours at $299, plus GST and travel costs from Kerikeri.

Examples of training packages:

Full-day of coaching

Pricing starts $1,495.00 +GST, which includes a maximum of 7 hours on-site and admin. Travel costs from Kerikeri are additional to this.

Workshop and coaching package

Pricing starts at $2,240 +GST, which includes one workshop, one half-day of coaching, training resources and follow-up staff support. Travel costs from Kerikeri are additional to this.

I am happy to discuss your preferences and what would suit you best.

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What staff are saying

Thank you! This was very valuable and gave us lots of insight into how to "rethink" when we interact with someone with dementia.

“Maria showed her knowledge and expertise in dealing with different residents. She is well versed and has inspired me to learn more about dementia”

Maria is a good listener and an excellent coach/mentor.

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