2022 - ONLINE COURSES ANNOUNCEMENT

As we all continue to live alongside this pandemic, Living Words will be offering courses for professional care home staff to learn and implement our ‘Listen Out Loud’ methodology. From Feb 2022, the courses will be six weeks long, with attendees committing to one weekly group session, with homework between groups. From June, the courses will be CPD accredited. An article about the courses, including findings from our ‘Culture Cubed’ evaluation, will be published in ‘Journal of Dementia Care’ Jan 2022 - we will post it here when available. If this is of interest to you, or you know someone who would benefit from taking part, email us at info@livingwords.org.uk to start the conversation. We’re all ears.

For now, we at Living Words wish you good health, open hearts, and a very Merry Christmas.
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Our nationwide project is out in the world as a book. Bringing The Inside Out worked with carers, residents, and relatives to pilot working remotely with carers/activity coordinators, and for them to trial our way of working one to one with residents with a dementia. You can purchase the book BRINGING IN THE INSIDE OUT - the words of people with a dementia, professional care staff, and relatives, about the impact of the pandemic on them all - from https://www.livingwarriorsfilms.com/store - OR - https://bookshop.canterbury.ac.uk/Bringing-the-Inside-Out-The-words-of-people-living-in-working-in-and-and-visiting-care-and-nursing-homes-across-the-UK-during-the-Covid-pandemic-2020_9781527280601 - & your order will be dispatched. We are so grateful to our funders - Arts Council England, Kent Community Foundation, FHCLCT, Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Coronavirus Community Support Fund, and The National Lottery for this.
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Check out the LIVING WARRIOR project and films at www.livingwarriorsfilms.com (or scroll down for the link) which have been featured across the BBC; BBC One, BBC Kent, BBC Big Ideas, BBC iPlayer, and across the BBC's official social media for World Suicide Prevention Day 2020, and International Day of People with Disabilities 2021