New EVA (European Validation Association) was born last year and continues its 30 year tradition of bringing European Validation Teachers together for two days of learning, sharing and networking.
If you are certified at Level 3, 4 or 5 and want to participate – get more information here. In English, Deutsch, Francais, Italiano and Espanol. Register before May 31st.

Join the Validation Training Institute, LifeLoop, and Dementia Minds to explore how performing arts, visual arts and literary arts can enhance the lives of people living with cognitive change. Each of the three panels will include a person living with cognitive change or Neurocognitive Disorders (NCD), who is active in one of the creative arts, plus two experts in the field doing interesting, creative projects.

VTI is so proud that the New York Times chose Naomi Feil to profile in their annual reflections on people who have passed: The Lives They Lived. Included among such luminaries as Willie Mays, Gina Rolands and Shelly Duvall, Naomi takes her place as a complex, world-changing person who shifted the gestalt of senior care during her 60 years of working with older adults living with cognitive decline.