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Certificate in Creative Care
Date: 25-31 April 2011
Venue: Tír na nÓg, Slievenagorta, Ballymore, Co Westmeath
Cost: €600 in total

The Creative Care Course has three two day modules, repeated regularly:

Play and Attachment  – Working with Pre-school Children and Clients with Special Needs
Play and sensory development is the core of this module and we discover how messy play is essential for learning bodily control and boundaries.  We shall learn about playful parenting and play with newborn babies and toddlers and its beginnings during pregnancy.

The developmental sequence of embodiment-projection-role demonstrates how we can both observe and structure play development.  We will address the importance of play with young children, clients with special needs, and institutionalised clients.

Cross Cultural Play and Creative Activities – Working with International Children
Essential skills for NGO volunteers working in disaster areas and with International children in Ireland and abroad.  We take a human-rights based approach in creating play and storytelling especially for situations where therapeutic play is still to be discovered. We shall work with identity through play for newly arrived immigrant children and their families and the impact of sudden change on their feelings of safety and security.We shall work with identity through play for newly arrived immigrant children and their families and the impact of sudden change and trauma.

Developing Therapeutic Play Skills – Storytelling and Dramatic Play
This module develops participants’ skills in recognising the child’s play development stage and introducing appropriate play activities.  This course addresses several ways to enable us to facilitate children’s holistic development, and assist them in overcoming difficulties, utilising play, in a variety of care settings. We shall look at personal expression through stories and puppetry.  We shall develop skills in using puppets for storytelling and drama, and include the importance of social play and nature play.

We will also address the importance of play in the life of clients with learning difficulties and developmental delays, linking the needs of the individual clients to the developmental stages at which they are currently functioning.

Further information on this course is in the Course Details, which you can download by clicking below.