Activities
FIOP develops and delivers a range of courses.
Costs and further details of all these courses can be obtained by contacting the FiOP office or for further information please contact the Training Officer.
The following is a list of some of the topics we have covered in training sessions in the last three years:
Keeping the Spirit Alive Spiritual Tasks of Ageing Spiritual Wellbeing – enhancing spiritual wellbeing but acknowledging the effects of chronic pain, hearing loss or sight loss. Transition times – from home to care Listening skills - for those visiting frail elderly at home or in care. Communication Skills - for those visiting frail elderly at home or in care. Loss & Bereavement Dementia
The topic of dementia can overlap all of the above and we have found that for a thorough exploration – approximately 6 x 2 hours -spread out over several weeks or months works best - otherwise people get mental indigestion!
Courses are offered both generally or can be tailored to the specific needs of each group in regards to number of sessions and particular content.
Sometimes individual topics are selected by a congregation or ecumenical group because they are particularly interested.
Sometimes we have grouped several of these topics together to form a course such as Carers & Visitors to the Frail Elderly.
We normally use a participatory workshop style with two trainers, aiming to share best practice and acknowledging the expertise that people bring with them.
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LATEST NEWS
The Second Scottish Caring and Dementia Congress. FiOP will be presenting a paper on Delivering Spiritual Care on 18th March and previewing the DVD developed in collaboration with Alzheimer Scotland and Artlink on 17th March in Edinburgh. See www.careinfo.org
Mental Health
First Aid
The course is the first Mental Health First Aid course to be delivered by older people for older people and will be delivered over four sessions at the Scottish Storytelling Centre. The course is free and lunch is provided. For more information and to book this course, click here to download the flyer.
Scottish International Symposium for Storytelling as a Healing Art June 13th to 19th 2010.
This is a week long residential course to share ideas and practice on Storytelling as a Healing Art. Click here to download the registration form or click here for the full programme.
100 not out
A study by the University of Surrey to investigate some of the 'lifestyle secrets' to living a long and healthy life. Click here to download more information.
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