We have a wide range of Validation training opportunities currently available to meet your unique needs.
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August 2021 Newsletter: New Validation Training Available!
For Our Dutch and Flemish Speakers
Graag deel ik informatie van deze opleiding tot gecertificeerde Validationwerker die start in het najaar in Nederland. Inschrijven kan vanaf nu. […]
Maintaining Pedagogic Excellence in Family Carer Training Using Online Learning
Validation is a way of connecting and communicating with older adults living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. While the method has been proven to be effective in numbers of studies, we investigated the effectiveness of our pedagogy. Our Family Caregiver Course set out to change the way family members view their relatives as well […]
Time to Say Goodbye
Have you heard of The Human Library (HLO)? This nonprofit organization was created by a Dane named Ronni Abergel in Copenhagen in 2000 to address issues of prejudice and stereotyping through honest personal dialogues in safe spaces. He saw the potential of people with atypical experiences to act as “books” who could be “borrowed” for […]
You Can’t Change Others, Only Yourself!
One of the things I’ve learned from psychologists and from life experience – I can’t change other people no matter how much I want to, no matter how much better it would be for both of us. That’s as true for my husband as it is for older adults living with Alzheimer’s disease and other […]
The Value of Storytelling
I recently read a most instructive opinion article in the New York Times called, “We Need to Process What We’ve Lost,” by Emily Esfahani Smith. The author begins by discussing a technique developed by Japanese artisans hundreds of years ago to mend shattered pottery known as “kintsugi.” As each piece of broken ceramic shard was […]