Promoting Creative Methods of Person-centred practice in Health and Education

1 Year Diploma (100 hours over 9.5 months) / 2 Years part time (100 hours over 24 months)

Introduction

This 1 year course 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.

Inspirative Development set high standards to initiate changes in the care culture, and actively practice to sustain them - providing structured and supervised placements (or projects within your current working environment). 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. We practice with the knowledge that improving quality of life and wellbeing for both customer, facilitator and / or caregiver is the best way to sustain individual, community and societal health.

Inspirative Development want passionate people to apply, who want to share their good practices, with compassion and creativity, who can let themselves be human and creative, make mistakes with flare, discover new ideas while immersed in creative activities!

We’re 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… it Doesn’t mean: drawing well or making something beautiful with out any support… it refers to expression and communication… sharing our uniqueness, valuing our differences, and welcoming new ways of thinking, doing, being. It’s not valued enough in our society, let alone in our care ‘industry’ - and we want to change this! That’s why we’re running this course and others like it - to be inspired, so we can inspire! Although we can’t guarantee work, our biggest intention, for our growing Community Interest Company is to have generated more vacancies for our participants after graduation.

This diploma won’t just help your skills of facilitation and employability, but looks at developing you and offering a warm, playful, nurturing environment for your skills and confidence to grow.

Find out more about each module and the entry requirements Click here

Your Future Role and Career Development

This course is an excellent way to discover and build your skills as a facilitator, supporting your own and other’s creativity and healthy expression. If you’re currently unsure of how to develop your creative interests and skills, not sure if going to University is possible or the best way of developing your role or moving your career forwards, this course will give you a substantial experience of practical and theoretical study, a supportive group learning environment, and new skills to take to your current and future workplaces.

Inspirative Development have volunteer posts, paid posts and associate posts that candidates on this course will be considered for before other applicants, once training has been completed.

Why this training is important to us, to society and to employers?

Many vulnerable populations struggle to find the means to communicate their inner strengths and struggles, or to resolve developmental traumas and impairments. Working with these groups is both highly rewarding and challenging. It takes personal resourcefulness and professional expertise to build rapport and sustain engaging, motivational relationships, and support emotional and social well being.

Interacting with others using the arts, is not only engaging, it’s also good for developing a sense of validation, belonging, a sense of being understood, and confidence. Active opportunities for being creative supports brain development, more pro-social interactions, resilience and improved well being. This can impact on the reduced need for medications, more costly interventions and unsustainable uses of resources.

If your still uncertain check out our commonly asked questions about the diploma: Commonly asked Questions

Please download the application form to express your interest in the training. email [email protected]

Or contact us if you have a query 01332 208 706