Pacific Institute invites you to explore a different approach to Alzheimer's and dementia care.
It is the prevalent view that our physical and psychological symptoms represent illnesses, and understood as illnesses, we ask for professional help in the "removal" of these symptoms. However, another attitude views symptoms as meaningful and important expressions of the individual's essence.
Deeper Into The Soul lectures and workshops sprung from Pacific Institute's innovative Dementia Work, and is based on the Coma Work of Arnold Mindell and process-oriented psychology.
This approach understands dementia symptoms as meaningful expressions of the individual and society, that we can try to understand rather than pathologize. Is there a way that we can learn to listen to the voice of these symptoms?
Could it be, for example, that the many forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's, are attempts to speak in a language as of yet unfamiliar to us? Could it be that more than a dis-ease for the person so afflicted, a person's symptom represents a message of sorts, wanting to express something important we must hear and understand?
How would such a change in attitude and perspective influence the way we "treat" people with dementia and Alzheimer's?
Earn 6 CEUs
6 CEU BBS - RCFE/CCL
(MCEP pending)
Attend both Lecture & Workshop for $150
Dates
Tuesday, May 13 6pm- 9pm and Friday, May 16, 2008 10am-5pm
Tuesday, November 18 6pm- 9pm and Friday, November 21, 2008 10am-5pm
Venue
First Unitarian Universalist Church & Center
1187 Franklin Street (at Geary)
San Francisco, CA 94109
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