Promoting Creative Methods of Person-centred practice in Health and Education
Inspirative Development are really excited to be offering our first formal training programme, following 5 years of successful practice and skills development for our team, volunteer carers, professional carers and support workers.
We’re going to be nurturing a small, strong community of learners - all with similar goals of using creativity to enhance emotional resilience and wellbeing - Creativity means being able to make connections - with thoughts, feelings, images, sounds, shapes.
This doesn’t mean: drawing well or making something beautiful without any support, it refers to expression and communication, sharing our uniqueness, valuing our differences, and welcoming new ways of thinking, doing, being.
Course Length
Full time: 1 Year (100 hours over 9.5 months) Part Time: 2 Years (100 hours over 24 months)
What you will cover
- Creative Arts in Health and Education
- Creativity and Wellbeing in Context
- Placement
- Reflections on Practice
- Understanding resilience through Developmental Psychology and Play
How you will learn
This diploma offers participants the chance to experience workshops and creative personal development opportunities, as well as build understanding and skills with vulnerable client groups. You will be introduced to key theoretical elements of creativity, psychological development, maintaining and improving health and wellbeing.
The values we inspire
Inspirative Development set high standards to initiate changes in the care culture, and actively practice to sustain them as we believe creativity is not valued enough in our society, let alone in our care ‘industry’ and we want to change this. We want to be inspired, so we can inspire! Our aspiration is to enhance the skills of staff in the health and social care sector, creating a workforce of enablers, who effectively assess and respond to the diverse range of their customers’ needs, while also taking care of ourselves. Enablers that can let themselves be human and creative, make mistakes with flare, discover new ideas while immersed in creative activities! We practice with the knowledge that improving quality of life and wellbeing for customer, facilitator and / or caregiver is the best way to sustain individual, community and societal health.
Your Future Role and Career Development
“Employers can teach a person a skill but they can’t teach a personality” - this is why Inspirative Development feel this diploma will guarantee you becoming more employable as we support you to grow whilst also enhancing your skills. Inspirative Development intends to do this by offering training, support, personal and professional development, in a part time in-house diploma. We intend to give you the opportunity to push yourself out of your comfort zone where we can grow the most, whilst also providing a warm, playful, nurturing environment for your skills and confidence to grow.
Collaboration with the University of Derby
Inspirative Development has collaborated with the University of Derby to offer you an opportunity to gain 20 credits towards Higher Education and have all the perks of being a student again. This opportunity is particularly useful if; you’ve been out of education for a while, or want to continue to build on your qualifications, you’re wanting to go towards a degree or Masters in a similar field, but aren’t sure what career path to commit your resources to yet.
Details of the University of Derby Therapeutic Arts programme are available here.
For further information on this diploma: entry requirements, more detail on the modules, costs and funding opportunities please download the full Diploma Information Overview and Details
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