The Counter Intuitive Sensory Course

We are very sorry to announce that due to unforseen circumstances this event has been cancelled.

This day is for people who are experienced at supporting individuals with profound and multiple learning disabilities or complex learning difficulties and disabilities, it will also be relevant to anyone supporting a person whose primary experience of the world, and meaning within it, is sensory: Sensory Beings.

The title of the day comes from two places: that it could be considered counter intuitive that delegates with such rich experience would attend a training day at all, and from some of the counter intuitive aspects of best practice care for Sensory Beings.

The day will be an opportunity to:

• Extend your existing good practice through networked conversations with other experienced practitioners and parents/primary carers.
• Explore the counter intuitive aspects of the support you currently provide. Recognising the counter intuitive aspects of our current practice helps us to better explain our techniques to others and so extend their impact, it can also enable us to apply existing good practice in one area to other areas.
• Be challenged by findings from contemporary research and consider how these might impact the support we provide.
• Sit in a Large Hadron Collider of Ideas and experience your own ideas colliding with the ideas of other superb practitioners and then picking through the creative rubble left behind after a collision for fascinating tit bits to pick up and put into action.
• Learn techniques to reinvigorate your own creative juices.
• Be inspired by activities and strategies used in other settings, collecting new ideas to try in your own setting.
• Consider how we support engagement in a multi sensory way in different environments and how these impact the mental health of the people we support.
• Consider how multi modal processing of sensory information effects people's ability to engage and how we can adjust the environment to maximise a person's chances of accessing and understanding the world around them.
• Discuss how to enable others to share your vision, during which there will be another nod to counter intuitive as we look at why traditional training might hinder rather than help awareness.
• And much more! This course will be different every time it runs as every time it runs we will have a different team of experts in the room.

We will also be joined by an incredible array of guests speakers! Including Professor Adam Ockelford from Soundabout who will be speaking about all things musical https://www.soundabout.org.uk ,the amazing Us in a Bus who will be sharing their knowledge on intensive interaction http://usinabus.org.uk/ and the wonderful Carrie Lennard creator of The Improvise Approach giving us her inspiring insight https://www.improviseapproach.com/.

Tickets

Professional tickets are for people who attend the course funded by their employer.

Parent/Carer/Student tickets are for people who attend the course and fund themselves to do so.

If you are not sure which ticket to buy please enquire by emailing sensorystory@gmail.com

Booking tickets for someone else?

If you book tickets on behalf of someone else please ensure their contact email address is sent to sensorystory@gmail.com this is essential as pre course information, including details of things you may need to bring if you are attending the day, instructions for travel on the day, and information about dietry requirements will be sent to the email address used to book the tickets unless we hear otherwise.

Booking via Facebook?

Please ensure we have your email address so that we can send you pre course information, travel details and find out your dietry requirements, facebook does not automatically pass on this information when you book, please email it to sensorystory@gmail.com

Unable to book via Eventbrite?

Contact sensorystory@gmail.com with the details of the tickets you wish to purchase and the email addresses of the people you are purchasing them for.

If you are booking professional tickets you can be invoiced for your tickets. You maybe charged for this service.

If you are booking parent/carer/student tickets it may be possible to arrange payment via paypal, contact sensorystory@gmail.com to find out.

Course Details

Please visit www.thesensoryprojects.co.uk and follow links to this course.

Venue and Travel

Details of the venue and travel options will be released nearer the time.