Upside Down and Inside Out: Supporting a Person in Crisis/ Supporting the People Who Care
Please join David Pitonyak for this exciting workshop!
Workshop Description:
This day-long workshop examines the strategies for supporting a person in crisis. The workshop focuses on specific physiological changes that overcome a person in distress, and strategies that make sense for the person and his or her caregivers.
Objectives:
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will have developed knowledge in the following areas:
- Understanding the reasons why a person may be in and out of crisis;
- Developing supports that assure the person's safety and the safety of others;
- Developing supports for the person's supporters;
- The physiology of aggression: What happens to the body in the presence of threat;
- Building a support plan that focuses on quality of life issues.
About David Pitonyak: David is a dynamic and popular presenter who consults with families and professionals throughout the United States, Canada, England, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands. He is interested in positive approaches to difficult behaviors. He believes that difficult behaviors are "messages" which can tell us important things about a person and his or her surroundings. Understanding the "meaning" of an individual's difficult behaviors is the first step in supporting the person (and the person's supporters) to change. David also believes that a “person’s needs are best met by people whose needs are met.” Creating more responsive human services is possible only when we take responsibility for problems of the workplace culture. A healthy organization is an organization that invites all of its members to take an active role in decision making, provides support to each member as defined by the member, and evaluates its success by the degree to which it lives up to its promises.
Agenda
The following is a suggested agenda only. Starting and ending times may vary. Regular question and answer breaks are built into the day.
- 09:00 Introductions/housekeeping
- 09:10 Part One: The Importance of Relationships, Check Your Assumptions, Assure Safety/Minimize Threat, Get Organized About Health Care
- 10:30 Break
- 10:45 Part Two: Who Shows Up Matters, Support for the Person's Supporters
- 12:00 Lunch
- 01:00 Part Three: Difficult Behaviors as Messages, 7 Questions to Guide The Development of A Support Plan
- 02:30 Break
- 02:45 Part Four: Policy Issues
- 04:00 End
*CE’s for LTCW pending
*Light refreshments will be provided but lunch will be on your own