We continuously receive great feedback about the practical value of our events and our expert speakers. Currently over 100 events are listed below in chronological order. All are open for registrations. Please SCROLL DOWN to find the event you are interested in your preferred location. Please be aware that some events are held in several locations. Not sure what to do? E: info@changechampions.com.au or M:0467635150
Moving Forward - Embracing and Accepting Resistance to Change
Down hearted because not everyone is on board with your project and commited to achieving change for the better? Not sure why? Don't know how to deal with it? Then this one day work shop is for you!!
Ideal for people working in health reform, e-health and innovations and service improvement projects in any sector
"A great workshop. Practical ideas which could be implemented immediately." - Elysha Loiterton, KJ Ross & Associates, QLD
"This Master Class was extremely interesting and worthwhile. It was great to share with others in the group about our change management challenges and discuss strategies to address them. Lots of fantastic information." - Cindy Cunningham, Macquarie University, NSW
"This has come at a great time as we launch into a period of implementation and the consequent change. Lots of perspective and tools to take with me" - Zoe Austin-Crowe, Department of Health, Victoria
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Handy Hints for the Novice Conference Presenter
Why not brush up on your conference skills before the Christmas party? If you are doing great work but never or hardly ever present to a live audience because the thought of it turns your knees to jelly....then here is a workshop for you. Delegates from outside health also welcomed.
"Very valuable workshop for formal and informal presentations. I wish I had undertaken this workshop many years ago" - Natasha Franklin, St Vincents Private Hospital, NSW
"This workshop helped me identify my strengths, to work out how to refocus my preparation and how to learn to trust my presentation skills......" - Mary Hartley, Mater Hospital, QLD
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The Change Implementers Toolkit
First time managing a project or program? Excited and enthusiastic about the opportunity to expand your horizons by working on a new initiative? Expert on the topic area? What about your expertise on how to manage change? Not too many ideas.... Great! You are the ideal participant in this full day workshop.
"Very helpful day and new information was constantly brought back and applied in my context. Thank you." - Ben, Brisbane QLD
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The Long Stay Patient
Many of you will have met Joan. She is 74 year old widow who was living independently at home prior to presenting at your hospital ED in an altered conscious state. On assessment and investigation, layers of medical issues appear and need unravelling.
Moving on, our Joan is still in hospital after 154 days. She's frustrated and bored. There is no agreed discharge plan and Joan just wants to go home. Your team are reluctant to discharge our Joan because they are yet to be convinced that all her layers of issues have been resolved.
These long stays are preventable. And this workshop with serve as a valuable investment for your hospital in preventing these long stays.
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Get to Sleep - Stay Asleep PUBLIC EVENT
Join Elise Wald in giving yourself a gift of a workshop to help you take control and improve your sleep.
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The ABC of BOC- Working with older adults with complex care needs who display behaviours of concern
Most of us are committed to the principles of delivering person centred care. Often times, though, our skills, knowledge and resolve are seriously challenged when we are working with older complex care recipients who display behaviours of concern. There are times too, when patients, clients and residents demonstrate behaviours that are so concerning or challenging that they impede our actually ability to provide effective person centred care..
Highly regarded facilitator, Dr Alice Rota-Bartelink, brings you this practical workshop that is designed to provide a vibrant, but strictly confidential, discussion forum for professionals willing to discuss de-identified cases and to learn with and from their peers in a supportive and relaxed environment.
"A very interactive session which improved my understanding of how to breakdown individual behaviours enabling better insight into managing them"
Jacinta Kritikos, Churches of Christ, Arcadia
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Managing Up (or, How to Help Your Boss Add Value to Your Work)
Ever bounced into your boss' office to eagerly report on project progress to be met with a quizzical stare? Ever been stopped mid-sentence by a boss who has no idea what you are talking about? Ever been asked to cut to the chase when you thought you were actually giving a brief summary? Did their eyes glaze over half way through a perhaps long winded explanation? Feel a bit anxious when you are about to go into a meeting with your boss?
Here is a 3hr workshop that will help you to make those meetings with your boss a much more mutually rewarding experience.
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Working Effectively with Clients Experiencing Family Estrangement
Health professionals regularly encounter clients who are estranged from one or more family members. Family estrangement often results in significant grief responses as well as decreased social functioning. While estrangement impacts families across the lifecycle, there is some evidence that older clients, clients experiencing periods of crisis and those nearing the end of life might experience an increased desire to reconcile with their estranged relative or at least learn to live with the loss of the ‘family ideal’. This practical workshop is designed to assist you to help clients living with family estrangement.
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Building Resilient Teams at Work
A workshop by Kathryn McEwen for those who value emotional intelligence.
This workshop provides evidence-based strategies to build resilient team at work that are derived from the literature as well as from research by the consultant. The strategies have been used successfully with leaders and teams across all professions and organisational levels including within the health and related industries.
Audience:
For those in leadership positions, eg middle, senior management and executive teams. There is great value if teams undergo this workshop together so that team strategies, alongside individual ones, can be developed.
"This was a great opportunity to share ideas and gain information both for myself and my tea in terms of ensuring health and maximising effectiveness"
Sue Dawson, MUH, NSW
Creating a Culture of Innovation
This practical workshop draws upon the best international literature and focuses on how to create a culture of innovation in health and aged care. Delegates will learn a step by step approach to creating a culture of innovation in their organisation:- Define what constitutes "innovation" as a pre-requisite for culture change
- Understand the DNA of innovators and how they inspire others
- Consider case studies of innovation in organisations
- Look at strategies and tools for fostering innovation in your organisation
- Develop a road map for fostering innovation in your organisation after the workshop
"It was good to take the time to really explore ways to encourage innovation on an organization and a personal level." - Kerry Copley, AMSANT, Northern Territory
"I had let "innovation" slide off my strengths radar. Now it's back on. How exciting." - NFP, WA
"It gave me ideas on stimulating innovation in my work place." - NFP, WA
"Excellent course providing tools and an easy to understand logic to implement. Great for business." - Karen Harris, Imagingwest, WA
"Having a smaller group allowed Char to personalize the discussion and presentation to the work we do." - Louise Patel, AMSANT, NT
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The New Leaders Toolkit
Believe it or not. From your very first day in a leadership role, you can choose to beconfident and successful. You can choose to adopt a principled approach to leadership and management so that the demands are manageable. You can choose to manage your energy rather than your time. These decisions will help you to stay fresh and able to deliver your best. As a proactive new leader, you can also choose to sit comfortably on top of the steam roller rather than submit to being squashed flat under the pressure of its rollers....and screaming for help
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Delirium & The Older Person
How to Influence Behaviour Change in Patients with Severe or Persistent Mental Illness
The Australian Government Partners in Recovery Program (PIR) is an innovative approach to better support people with severe and persistent mental health conditions with complex needs. The approach focuses on the person, the illness and its context and the range services and supports across a multitude of sectors they (and their family and carers) may need to facilitate recovery. Find out more about Partners in Recovery at http://www.health.gov.au.
Asking for help or being able to articulate their needs is sometimes a challenge for some people with severe mental illness. Stabilising the condition and or recovery is often painstakingly slow and challenging for the person with mental illness. And it can be frustrating for all of those professionals and carers that are part of their recovery team.
As we try to connect with our client, understand their actual needs, formulate a plan and find professionals, resources and services to build the recovery team, we can often feel stuck and doubt ourselves as practitioners. We may feel like we are burning out trying to assist clients who are yet unable to grasp the benefits of change.
It tends to erode our confidence and may create stress around working with our mental health clients which could then impede their recovery.
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Managing Behavioural & Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
- enhance your understanding of dementia,
- assist your communication with people with dementia; and,
- help you to understand how the environment impacts on people with dementia
Working Effectively with Clients Experiencing Family Estrangement
Health professionals regularly encounter clients who are estranged from one or more family members. Family estrangement often results in significant grief responses as well as decreased social functioning. While estrangement impacts families across the lifecycle, there is some evidence that older clients, clients experiencing periods of crisis and those nearing the end of life might experience an increased desire to reconcile with their estranged relative or at least learn to live with the loss of the ‘family ideal’. This practical workshop is designed to assist you to help clients living with family estrangement.
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Moving Forward - Embracing and Accepting Resistance to Change
Down hearted because not everyone is on board with your project and commited to achieving change for the better? Not sure why? Don't know how to deal with it? Then this one day work shop is for you!!
Ideal for people working in health reform, e-health and innovations and service improvement projects in any sector
"A great workshop. Practical ideas which could be implemented immediately." - Elysha Loiterton, KJ Ross & Associates, QLD
"This Master Class was extremely interesting and worthwhile. It was great to share with others in the group about our change management challenges and discuss strategies to address them. Lots of fantastic information." - Cindy Cunningham, Macquarie University, NSW
"This has come at a great time as we launch into a period of implementation and the consequent change. Lots of perspective and tools to take with me" - Zoe Austin-Crowe, Department of Health, Victoria
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Handy Hints for the Novice Conference Presenter
Why not brush up on your conference skills before the Christmas party? If you are doing great work but never or hardly ever present to a live audience because the thought of it turns your knees to jelly....then here is a workshop for you. Delegates from outside health also welcomed.
"Very valuable workshop for formal and informal presentations. I wish I had undertaken this workshop many years ago" - Natasha Franklin, St Vincents Private Hospital, NSW
"This workshop helped me identify my strengths, to work out how to refocus my preparation and how to learn to trust my presentation skills......" - Mary Hartley, Mater Hospital, QLD
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The Change Implementers Toolkit
First time managing a project or program? Excited and enthusiastic about the opportunity to expand your horizons by working on a new initiative? Expert on the topic area? What about your expertise on how to manage change? Not too many ideas.... Great! You are the ideal participant in this full day workshop.
"Very helpful day and new information was constantly brought back and applied in my context. Thank you." - Ben, Brisbane QLD
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How To Influence Behaviour Change in Patients With Chronic Illness
When working with health change we can often feel stuck, doubt ourselves as practitioners and feel like we are burning out trying to assist clients who resist change. It tends to erode our confidence and creates stress around working with those clients.
This two day patient/client centred workshop, facilitated by Elise Wald, optimises your capacity to promote
self care/self management.
- Introduces you to an integrated psychological understanding of change,
- Provides information, stimulates case discussion and practical techniques cognitions, motivation and mindfulness around encouraging clients and influencing outcomes.
The Long Stay Patient
Many of you will have met Joan. She is 74 year old widow who was living independently at home prior to presenting at your hospital ED in an altered conscious state. On assessment and investigation, layers of medical issues appear and need unravelling.
Moving on, our Joan is still in hospital after 154 days. She's frustrated and bored. There is no agreed discharge plan and Joan just wants to go home. Your team are reluctant to discharge our Joan because they are yet to be convinced that all her layers of issues have been resolved.
These long stays are preventable. And this workshop with serve as a valuable investment for your hospital in preventing these long stays.
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The ABC of BOC- Working with older adults with complex care needs who display behaviours of concern
Most of us are committed to the principles of delivering person centred care. Often times, though, our skills, knowledge and resolve are seriously challenged when we are working with older complex care recipients who display behaviours of concern. There are times too, when patients, clients and residents demonstrate behaviours that are so concerning or challenging that they impede our actually ability to provide effective person centred care..
Highly regarded facilitator, Dr Alice Rota-Bartelink, brings you this practical workshop that is designed to provide a vibrant, but strictly confidential, discussion forum for professionals willing to discuss de-identified cases and to learn with and from their peers in a supportive and relaxed environment.
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Managing Up (or, How to Help Your Boss Add Value to Your Work)
Ever bounced into your boss' office to eagerly report on project progress to be met with a quizzical stare? Ever been stopped mid-sentence by a boss who has no idea what you are talking about? Ever been asked to cut to the chase when you thought you were actually giving a brief summary? Did their eyes glaze over half way through a perhaps long winded explanation? Feel a bit anxious when you are about to go into a meeting with your boss?
Here is a 3hr workshop that will help you to make those meetings with your boss a much more mutually rewarding experience.
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Creating a Culture of Innovation
This practical workshop draws upon the best international literature and focuses on how to create a culture of innovation in health and aged care. Delegates will learn a step by step approach to creating a culture of innovation in their organisation:- Define what constitutes "innovation" as a pre-requisite for culture change
- Understand the DNA of innovators and how they inspire others
- Consider case studies of innovation in organisations
- Look at strategies and tools for fostering innovation in your organisation
- Develop a road map for fostering innovation in your organisation after the workshop
"It was good to take the time to really explore ways to encourage innovation on an organization and a personal level." - Kerry Copley, AMSANT, Northern Territory
"I had let "innovation" slide off my strengths radar. Now it's back on. How exciting." - NFP, WA
"It gave me ideas on stimulating innovation in my work place." - NFP, WA
"Excellent course providing tools and an easy to understand logic to implement. Great for business." - Karen Harris, Imagingwest, WA
"Having a smaller group allowed Char to personalize the discussion and presentation to the work we do." - Louise Patel, AMSANT, NT
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The New Leaders Toolkit
Believe it or not. From your very first day in a leadership role, you can choose to beconfident and successful. You can choose to adopt a principled approach to leadership and management so that the demands are manageable. You can choose to manage your energy rather than your time. These decisions will help you to stay fresh and able to deliver your best. As a proactive new leader, you can also choose to sit comfortably on top of the steam roller rather than submit to being squashed flat under the pressure of its rollers....and screaming for help
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Mastering Social Media
This full day workshop is for those of you who are still trying to fathom the value of using social media and how your clients or customers might benefit. It will also help you to navigate in a benefit focused approach the plethora of platforms that are on offer
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Bathing Without Battles
The process of bathing is usually pleasurable and relaxing for most people! In contrast, bathing can be both a distressing and traumatic experience for people with dementia and their carers.
This workshop with Robyn Attoe will assist you to see bathing as not a task to be performed but rather a human interaction that can be pleasant for both carer and the person with dementia.
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Working Effectively with Clients Experiencing Family Estrangement
Health professionals regularly encounter clients who are estranged from one or more family members. Family estrangement often results in significant grief responses as well as decreased social functioning. While estrangement impacts families across the lifecycle, there is some evidence that older clients, clients experiencing periods of crisis and those nearing the end of life might experience an increased desire to reconcile with their estranged relative or at least learn to live with the loss of the ‘family ideal’. This practical workshop is designed to assist you to help clients living with family estrangement.
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The ABC of BOC- Working with older adults with complex care needs who display behaviours of concern
Most of us are committed to the principles of delivering person centred care. Often times, though, our skills, knowledge and resolve are seriously challenged when we are working with older complex care recipients who display behaviours of concern. There are times too, when patients, clients and residents demonstrate behaviours that are so concerning or challenging that they impede our actually ability to provide effective person centred care..
Highly regarded facilitator, Dr Alice Rota-Bartelink, brings you this practical workshop that is designed to provide a vibrant, but strictly confidential, discussion forum for professionals willing to discuss de-identified case and to learn with and from their peers in a supportive and relaxed environment.
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How To Influence Behaviour Change in Patients With Chronic Illness
When working with health change we can often feel stuck, doubt ourselves as practitioners and feel like we are burning out trying to assist clients who resist change. It tends to erode our confidence and creates stress around working with those clients.
This two day patient/client centred workshop, facilitated by Elise Wald, optimises your capacity to promote
self care/self management.
- Introduces you to an integrated psychological understanding of change,
- Provides information, stimulates case discussion and practical techniques cognitions, motivation and mindfulness around encouraging clients and influencing outcomes.
Moving Forward - Embracing and Accepting Resistance to Change
Down hearted because not everyone is on board with your project and commited to achieving change for the better? Not sure why? Don't know how to deal with it? Then this one day work shop is for you!!
Ideal for people working in health reform, e-health and innovations and service improvement projects in any sector
"A great workshop. Practical ideas which could be implemented immediately." - Elysha Loiterton, KJ Ross & Associates, QLD
"This Master Class was extremely interesting and worthwhile. It was great to share with others in the group about our change management challenges and discuss strategies to address them. Lots of fantastic information." - Cindy Cunningham, Macquarie University, NSW
"This has come at a great time as we launch into a period of implementation and the consequent change. Lots of perspective and tools to take with me" - Zoe Austin-Crowe, Department of Health, Victoria
SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE EVENTS
The Change Implementers Toolkit
First time managing a project or program? Excited and enthusiastic about the opportunity to expand your horizons by working on a new initiative? Expert on the topic area? What about your expertise on how to manage change? Not too many ideas.... Great! You are the ideal participant in this full day workshop.
"Very helpful day and new information was constantly brought back and applied in my context. Thank you." - Ben, Brisbane QLD
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Managing Up (or, How to Help Your Boss Add Value to Your Work)
Ever bounced into your boss' office to eagerly report on project progress to be met with a quizzical stare? Ever been stopped mid-sentence by a boss who has no idea what you are talking about? Ever been asked to cut to the chase when you thought you were actually giving a brief summary? Did their eyes glaze over half way through a perhaps long winded explanation? Feel a bit anxious when you are about to go into a meeting with your boss?
Here is a 3hr workshop that will help you to make those meetings with your boss a much more mutually rewarding experience.
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Creating a Culture of Innovation
This practical workshop draws upon the best international literature and focuses on how to create a culture of innovation in health and aged care. Delegates will learn a step by step approach to creating a culture of innovation in their organisation:- Define what constitutes "innovation" as a pre-requisite for culture change
- Understand the DNA of innovators and how they inspire others
- Consider case studies of innovation in organisations
- Look at strategies and tools for fostering innovation in your organisation
- Develop a road map for fostering innovation in your organisation after the workshop
"It was good to take the time to really explore ways to encourage innovation on an organization and a personal level." - Kerry Copley, AMSANT, Northern Territory
"I had let "innovation" slide off my strengths radar. Now it's back on. How exciting." - NFP, WA
"It gave me ideas on stimulating innovation in my work place." - NFP, WA
"Excellent course providing tools and an easy to understand logic to implement. Great for business." - Karen Harris, Imagingwest, WA
"Having a smaller group allowed Char to personalize the discussion and presentation to the work we do." - Louise Patel, AMSANT, NT
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The Long Stay Patient
Many of you will have met Joan. She is 74 year old widow who was living independently at home prior to presenting at your hospital ED in an altered conscious state. On assessment and investigation, layers of medical issues appear and need unravelling.
Moving on, our Joan is still in hospital after 154 days. She's frustrated and bored. There is no agreed discharge plan and Joan just wants to go home. Your team are reluctant to discharge our Joan because they are yet to be convinced that all her layers of issues have been resolved.
These long stays are preventable. And this workshop with serve as a valuable investment for your hospital in preventing these long stays.
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Making a Difference in Sleep
HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ONLY
Integrative Psychological Therapy for Sleep: An introductory workshop providing practitioners with practical and clinical skills to assist clients with sleep difficulties
This introductory course is aimed at developing your understanding of an integrated therapeutic approach beyond sleep hygiene when working with clients. Sleep is often an area that is under reported and yet sleep difficulties have been associated with depression, anxiety and chronic conditions such as diabetes.
Insomnia and sleep difficulties are often related to high levels of hyper-arousal, anxious pre-occupation and stress which impacts a person’s ability to cope with daily functioning and be resilient.
An integrated approach to sleep therapy incorporating Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness is an effective method to provide evidence based intervention for clients to improve their sleep and overall health and wellbeing.
For allied health professionals, GPs, nurses, sleep technicians and any other professional working with chronic and complex conditions
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The New Leaders Toolkit
Believe it or not. From your very first day in a leadership role, you can choose to beconfident and successful. You can choose to adopt a principled approach to leadership and management so that the demands are manageable. You can choose to manage your energy rather than your time. These decisions will help you to stay fresh and able to deliver your best. As a proactive new leader, you can also choose to sit comfortably on top of the steam roller rather than submit to being squashed flat under the pressure of its rollers....and screaming for help
SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE EVENTS
The ABC of BOC- Working with older adults with complex care needs who display behaviours of concern
Most of us are committed to the principles of delivering person centred care. Often times, though, our skills, knowledge and resolve are seriously challenged when we are working with older complex care recipients who display behaviours of concern. There are times too, when patients, clients and residents demonstrate behaviours that are so concerning or challenging that they impede our actually ability to provide effective person centred care..
Highly regarded facilitator, Dr Alice Rota-Bartelink, brings you this practical workshop that is designed to provide a vibrant, but strictly confidential, discussion forum for professionals willing to discuss de-identified cases and to learn with and from their peers in a supportive and relaxed environment.
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16 July - 16 July 2014
Mackay, QLD, Australia
Sex, Sexuality and Culture - Addressing Social Diversity in Aged Care
A Workshop with Robyn Attoe & Daryl Oehm
Culture, gender identity, sexual orientation and sexuality are integral to personal identity and our sense of well-being. Without attention to social diversity it is difficult to provide person centred quality aged care.
This interactive workshop is designed to:
- draw on your experiences in working with culture and sexuality in aged care,
- address similarities in cultural and LGBTI competencies,
- draw on broader issues of diversity in our community, and;
- plan strategies to provide aged care that is respectful of emotional and physical needs.
The Long Stay Patient
Many of you will have met Joan. She is 74 year old widow who was living independently at home prior to presenting at your hospital ED in an altered conscious state. On assessment and investigation, layers of medical issues appear and need unravelling.
Moving on, our Joan is still in hospital after 154 days. She's frustrated and bored. There is no agreed discharge plan and Joan just wants to go home. Your team are reluctant to discharge our Joan because they are yet to be convinced that all her layers of issues have been resolved.
These long stays are preventable. And this workshop with serve as a valuable investment for your hospital in preventing these long stays.
SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE EVENTS AND THIS EVENT SCHEDULED FOR OTHER CITIES
Bathing Without Battles
The process of bathing is usually pleasurable and relaxing for most people! In contrast, bathing can be both a distressing and traumatic experience for people with dementia and their carers.
This workshop with Robyn Attoe will assist you to see bathing as not a task to be performed but rather a human interaction that can be pleasant for both carer and the person with dementia.
SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE EVENTS
How To Influence Behaviour Change in Patients With Chronic Illness
When working with health change we can often feel stuck, doubt ourselves as practitioners and feel like we are burning out trying to assist clients who resist change. It tends to erode our confidence and creates stress around working with those clients.
This two day patient/client centred workshop, facilitated by Elise Wald, optimises your capacity to promote
self care/self management.
- Introduces you to an integrated psychological understanding of change,
- Provides information, stimulates case discussion and practical techniques cognitions, motivation and mindfulness around encouraging clients and influencing outcomes.
Managing Behavioural & Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
- enhance your understanding of dementia,
- assist your communication with people with dementia; and,
- help you to understand how the environment impacts on people with dementia
SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE EVENTS
How to Influence Behaviour Change in Patients with Severe or Persistent Mental Illness
The Australian Government Partners in Recovery Program (PIR) is an innovative approach to better support people with severe and persistent mental health conditions with complex needs. The approach focuses on the person, the illness and its context and the range services and supports across a multitude of sectors they (and their family and carers) may need to facilitate recovery. Find out more about Partners in Recovery athttp://www.health.gov.au.
Asking for help or being able to articulate their needs is sometimes a challenge for some people with severe mental illness. Stabilising the condition and or recovery is often painstakingly slow and challenging for the person with mental illness. And it can be frustrating for all of those professionals and carers that are part of their recovery team.
As we try to connect with our client, understand their actual needs, formulate a plan and find professionals, resources and services to build the recovery team, we can often feel stuck and doubt ourselves as practitioners. We may feel like we are burning out trying to assist clients who are yet unable to grasp the benefits of change.
It tends to erode our confidence and may create stress around working with our mental health clients which could then impede their recovery.
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Proven Governance - How Effective is Your Board or Committee
A practical and challenging Master Class with expert David Schwarz for executives and leaders who not only wish to make a difference, but want that difference to be measurable
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Proven Governance - How Effective is Your Board or Committee
A practical and challenging Master Class with expert David Schwarz for executives and leaders who not only wish to make a difference, but want that difference to be measurable
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Moving Forward - Embracing and Accepting Resistance to Change
Down hearted because not everyone is on board with your project and commited to achieving change for the better? Not sure why? Don't know how to deal with it? Then this one day work shop is for you!!
Ideal for people working in health reform, e-health and innovations and service improvement projects in any sector
"A great workshop. Practical ideas which could be implemented immediately." - Elysha Loiterton, KJ Ross & Associates, QLD
"This Master Class was extremely interesting and worthwhile. It was great to share with others in the group about our change management challenges and discuss strategies to address them. Lots of fantastic information." - Cindy Cunningham, Macquarie University, NSW
"This has come at a great time as we launch into a period of implementation and the consequent change. Lots of perspective and tools to take with me" - Zoe Austin-Crowe, Department of Health, Victoria
SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE EVENTS
Handy Hints for the Novice Conference Presenter
Why not brush up on your conference skills before the Christmas party? If you are doing great work but never or hardly ever present to a live audience because the thought of it turns your knees to jelly....then here is a workshop for you. Delegates from outside health also welcomed.
"Very valuable workshop for formal and informal presentations. I wish I had undertaken this workshop many years ago" - Natasha Franklin, St Vincents Private Hospital, NSW
"This workshop helped me identify my strengths, to work out how to refocus my preparation and how to learn to trust my presentation skills......" - Mary Hartley, Mater Hospital, QLD
SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE EVENTS
The Change Implementers Toolkit
First time managing a project or program? Excited and enthusiastic about the opportunity to expand your horizons by working on a new initiative? Expert on the topic area? What about your expertise on how to manage change? Not too many ideas.... Great! You are the ideal participant in this full day workshop.
"Very helpful day and new information was constantly brought back and applied in my context. Thank you." - Ben, Brisbane QLD
SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE EVENTS
Managing Up (or, How to Help Your Boss Add Value to Your Work)
Ever bounced into your boss' office to eagerly report on project progress to be met with a quizzical stare? Ever been stopped mid-sentence by a boss who has no idea what you are talking about? Ever been asked to cut to the chase when you thought you were actually giving a brief summary? Did their eyes glaze over half way through a perhaps long winded explanation? Feel a bit anxious when you are about to go into a meeting with your boss?
Here is a 3hr workshop that will help you to make those meetings with your boss a much more mutually rewarding experience.
SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE EVENTS
Creating a Culture of Innovation
This practical workshop draws upon the best international literature and focuses on how to create a culture of innovation in health and aged care. Delegates will learn a step by step approach to creating a culture of innovation in their organisation:- Define what constitutes "innovation" as a pre-requisite for culture change
- Understand the DNA of innovators and how they inspire others
- Consider case studies of innovation in organisations
- Look at strategies and tools for fostering innovation in your organisation
- Develop a road map for fostering innovation in your organisation after the workshop
"It was good to take the time to really explore ways to encourage innovation on an organization and a personal level." - Kerry Copley, AMSANT, Northern Territory
"I had let "innovation" slide off my strengths radar. Now it's back on. How exciting." - NFP, WA
"It gave me ideas on stimulating innovation in my work place." - NFP, WA
"Excellent course providing tools and an easy to understand logic to implement. Great for business." - Karen Harris, Imagingwest, WA
"Having a smaller group allowed Char to personalize the discussion and presentation to the work we do." - Louise Patel, AMSANT, NT
SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE EVENTS
The New Leaders Toolkit
Believe it or not. From your very first day in a leadership role, you can choose to beconfident and successful. You can choose to adopt a principled approach to leadership and management so that the demands are manageable. You can choose to manage your energy rather than your time. These decisions will help you to stay fresh and able to deliver your best. As a proactive new leader, you can also choose to sit comfortably on top of the steam roller rather than submit to being squashed flat under the pressure of its rollers....and screaming for help
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Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
If you are over trying to manage your time so that you can do everything on your wish list on time all the time, this workshop might be for you. Join Char Weeks for this practical and inspiring workshop which could change the way you do everything.
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The ABC of BOC- Working with older adults with complex care needs who display behaviours of concern
Most of us are committed to the principles of delivering person centred care. Often times, though, our skills, knowledge and resolve are seriously challenged when we are working with older complex care recipients who display behaviours of concern. There are times too, when patients, clients and residents demonstrate behaviours that are so concerning or challenging that they impede our actually ability to provide effective person centred care..
Highly regarded facilitator, Dr Alice Rota-Bartelink, brings you this practical workshop that is designed to provide a vibrant, but strictly confidential, discussion forum for professionals willing to discuss de-identified cases and to learn with and from their peers in a supportive and relaxed environment.
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When Change is Lobbed On You From a Great Height
Bring your challenges to this full day workshop!
"Very informative & gave me fresh ideas." Michelle Kreusel, Western Health, VIC
Don't quite know what to do when you have been directed from far above to implement a change in your workplace or team? Had no buy-in to designing a change that you are responsible for implementing in your workplace? Accountable for making a change that you don't really understand or don't agree with? Know that your team is not going to be happy with more change or another change that seems to make very little sense? Feeling overwhelmed? Blue? Perhaps, just tinsy bit cynical? Feel like a junior tennis player facing Serena Williams or Roger Federer for the very first time? If you answered yes to any one of these questions, this workshop is for you.
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Moving Forward - Embracing and Accepting Resistance to Change
Down hearted because not everyone is on board with your project and commited to achieving change for the better? Not sure why? Don't know how to deal with it? Then this one day work shop is for you!!
Ideal for people working in health reform, e-health and innovations and service improvement projects in any sector
"A great workshop. Practical ideas which could be implemented immediately." - Elysha Loiterton, KJ Ross & Associates, QLD
"This Master Class was extremely interesting and worthwhile. It was great to share with others in the group about our change management challenges and discuss strategies to address them. Lots of fantastic information." - Cindy Cunningham, Macquarie University, NSW
"This has come at a great time as we launch into a period of implementation and the consequent change. Lots of perspective and tools to take with me" - Zoe Austin-Crowe, Department of Health, Victoria
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Handy Hints for the Novice Conference Presenter
Why not brush up on your conference skills before the Christmas party? If you are doing great work but never or hardly ever present to a live audience because the thought of it turns your knees to jelly....then here is a workshop for you. Delegates from outside health also welcomed.
"Very valuable workshop for formal and informal presentations. I wish I had undertaken this workshop many years ago" - Natasha Franklin, St Vincents Private Hospital, NSW
"This workshop helped me identify my strengths, to work out how to refocus my preparation and how to learn to trust my presentation skills......" - Mary Hartley, Mater Hospital, QLD
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The Change Implementers Toolkit
First time managing a project or program? Excited and enthusiastic about the opportunity to expand your horizons by working on a new initiative? Expert on the topic area? What about your expertise on how to manage change? Not too many ideas.... Great! You are the ideal participant in this full day workshop.
"Very helpful day and new information was constantly brought back and applied in my context. Thank you." - Ben, Brisbane QLD
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Managing Up (or, How to Help Your Boss Add Value to Your Work)
Ever bounced into your boss' office to eagerly report on project progress to be met with a quizzical stare? Ever been stopped mid-sentence by a boss who has no idea what you are talking about? Ever been asked to cut to the chase when you thought you were actually giving a brief summary? Did their eyes glaze over half way through a perhaps long winded explanation? Feel a bit anxious when you are about to go into a meeting with your boss?
Here is a 3hr workshop that will help you to make those meetings with your boss a much more mutually rewarding experience.
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Creating a Culture of Innovation
This practical workshop draws upon the best international literature and focuses on how to create a culture of innovation in health and aged care. Delegates will learn a step by step approach to creating a culture of innovation in their organisation:- Define what constitutes "innovation" as a pre-requisite for culture change
- Understand the DNA of innovators and how they inspire others
- Consider case studies of innovation in organisations
- Look at strategies and tools for fostering innovation in your organisation
- Develop a road map for fostering innovation in your organisation after the workshop
"It was good to take the time to really explore ways to encourage innovation on an organization and a personal level." - Kerry Copley, AMSANT, Northern Territory
"I had let "innovation" slide off my strengths radar. Now it's back on. How exciting." - NFP, WA
"It gave me ideas on stimulating innovation in my work place." - NFP, WA
"Excellent course providing tools and an easy to understand logic to implement. Great for business." - Karen Harris, Imagingwest, WA
"Having a smaller group allowed Char to personalize the discussion and presentation to the work we do." - Louise Patel, AMSANT, NT
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The New Leaders Toolkit
Believe it or not. From your very first day in a leadership role, you can choose to beconfident and successful. You can choose to adopt a principled approach to leadership and management so that the demands are manageable. You can choose to manage your energy rather than your time. These decisions will help you to stay fresh and able to deliver your best. As a proactive new leader, you can also choose to sit comfortably on top of the steam roller rather than submit to being squashed flat under the pressure of its rollers....and screaming for help
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How To Influence Behaviour Change in Patients With Chronic Illness
When working with health change we can often feel stuck, doubt ourselves as practitioners and feel like we are burning out trying to assist clients who resist change. It tends to erode our confidence and creates stress around working with those clients.
This two day patient/client centred workshop, facilitated by Elise Wald, optimises your capacity to promote
self care/self management.
- Introduces you to an integrated psychological understanding of change,
- Provides information, stimulates case discussion and practical techniques cognitions, motivation and mindfulness around encouraging clients and influencing outcomes.
How to Influence Behaviour Change in Patients with Severe or Persistent Mental Illness
The Australian Government Partners in Recovery Program (PIR) is an innovative approach to better support people with severe and persistent mental health conditions with complex needs. The approach focuses on the person, the illness and its context and the range services and supports across a multitude of sectors they (and their family and carers) may need to facilitate recovery. Find out more about Partners in Recovery athttp://www.health.gov.au.
Asking for help or being able to articulate their needs is sometimes a challenge for some people with severe mental illness. Stabilising the condition and or recovery is often painstakingly slow and challenging for the person with mental illness. And it can be frustrating for all of those professionals and carers that are part of their recovery team.
As we try to connect with our client, understand their actual needs, formulate a plan and find professionals, resources and services to build the recovery team, we can often feel stuck and doubt ourselves as practitioners. We may feel like we are burning out trying to assist clients who are yet unable to grasp the benefits of change.
It tends to erode our confidence and may create stress around working with our mental health clients which could then impede their recovery.
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How To Influence Behaviour Change in Patients With Chronic Illness
When working with health change we can often feel stuck, doubt ourselves as practitioners and feel like we are burning out trying to assist clients who resist change. It tends to erode our confidence and creates stress around working with those clients.
This two day patient/client centred workshop, facilitated by Elise Wald, optimises your capacity to promote
self care/self management.
- Introduces you to an integrated psychological understanding of change,
- Provides information, stimulates case discussion and practical techniques cognitions, motivation and mindfulness around encouraging clients and influencing outcomes.
How to Influence Behaviour Change in Patients with Severe or Persistent Mental Illness
The Australian Government Partners in Recovery Program (PIR) is an innovative approach to better support people with severe and persistent mental health conditions with complex needs. The approach focuses on the person, the illness and its context and the range services and supports across a multitude of sectors they (and their family and carers) may need to facilitate recovery. Find out more about Partners in Recovery athttp://www.health.gov.au.
Asking for help or being able to articulate their needs is sometimes a challenge for some people with severe mental illness. Stabilising the condition and or recovery is often painstakingly slow and challenging for the person with mental illness. And it can be frustrating for all of those professionals and carers that are part of their recovery team.
As we try to connect with our client, understand their actual needs, formulate a plan and find professionals, resources and services to build the recovery team, we can often feel stuck and doubt ourselves as practitioners. We may feel like we are burning out trying to assist clients who are yet unable to grasp the benefits of change.
It tends to erode our confidence and may create stress around working with our mental health clients which could then impede their recovery.
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Moving Forward - Embracing and Accepting Resistance to Change
Down hearted because not everyone is on board with your project and commited to achieving change for the better? Not sure why? Don't know how to deal with it? Then this one day work shop is for you!!
Ideal for people working in health reform, e-health and innovations and service improvement projects in any sector
"A great workshop. Practical ideas which could be implemented immediately." - Elysha Loiterton, KJ Ross & Associates, QLD
"This Master Class was extremely interesting and worthwhile. It was great to share with others in the group about our change management challenges and discuss strategies to address them. Lots of fantastic information." - Cindy Cunningham, Macquarie University, NSW
"This has come at a great time as we launch into a period of implementation and the consequent change. Lots of perspective and tools to take with me" - Zoe Austin-Crowe, Department of Health, Victoria
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Handy Hints for the Novice Conference Presenter
Why not brush up on your conference skills before the Christmas party? If you are doing great work but never or hardly ever present to a live audience because the thought of it turns your knees to jelly....then here is a workshop for you. Delegates from outside health also welcomed.
"Very valuable workshop for formal and informal presentations. I wish I had undertaken this workshop many years ago" - Natasha Franklin, St Vincents Private Hospital, NSW
"This workshop helped me identify my strengths, to work out how to refocus my preparation and how to learn to trust my presentation skills......" - Mary Hartley, Mater Hospital, QLD
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The Change Implementers Toolkit
First time managing a project or program? Excited and enthusiastic about the opportunity to expand your horizons by working on a new initiative? Expert on the topic area? What about your expertise on how to manage change? Not too many ideas.... Great! You are the ideal participant in this full day workshop.
"Very helpful day and new information was constantly brought back and applied in my context. Thank you." - Ben, Brisbane QLD
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Managing Up (or, How to Help Your Boss Add Value to Your Work)
Ever bounced into your boss' office to eagerly report on project progress to be met with a quizzical stare? Ever been stopped mid-sentence by a boss who has no idea what you are talking about? Ever been asked to cut to the chase when you thought you were actually giving a brief summary? Did their eyes glaze over half way through a perhaps long winded explanation? Feel a bit anxious when you are about to go into a meeting with your boss?
Here is a 3hr workshop that will help you to make those meetings with your boss a much more mutually rewarding experience.
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Creating a Culture of Innovation
This practical workshop draws upon the best international literature and focuses on how to create a culture of innovation in health and aged care. Delegates will learn a step by step approach to creating a culture of innovation in their organisation:- Define what constitutes "innovation" as a pre-requisite for culture change
- Understand the DNA of innovators and how they inspire others
- Consider case studies of innovation in organisations
- Look at strategies and tools for fostering innovation in your organisation
- Develop a road map for fostering innovation in your organisation after the workshop
"It was good to take the time to really explore ways to encourage innovation on an organization and a personal level." - Kerry Copley, AMSANT, Northern Territory
"I had let "innovation" slide off my strengths radar. Now it's back on. How exciting." - NFP, WA
"It gave me ideas on stimulating innovation in my work place." - NFP, WA
"Excellent course providing tools and an easy to understand logic to implement. Great for business." - Karen Harris, Imagingwest, WA
"Having a smaller group allowed Char to personalize the discussion and presentation to the work we do." - Louise Patel, AMSANT, NT
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The New Leaders Toolkit
Believe it or not. From your very first day in a leadership role, you can choose to beconfident and successful. You can choose to adopt a principled approach to leadership and management so that the demands are manageable. You can choose to manage your energy rather than your time. These decisions will help you to stay fresh and able to deliver your best. As a proactive new leader, you can also choose to sit comfortably on top of the steam roller rather than submit to being squashed flat under the pressure of its rollers....and screaming for help
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The Book: Handy Hints for the Novice Conference Presenter
If you are doing great work but never or hardly ever present to a live audience because the thought of it turns your knees to jelly....then here is a book for you: "Handy Hints for the Novice Conference Presenter or How to Avoid Throwing Up, Passing Out or Just Having a Nervous Break-down in Front of a Live Audience" . 132 pages with some colour illustrations.
COPIES NOW IN STOCK! Selling in 9 countries!
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IN HOUSE: The Challenge of Longer Term Alcohol Abuse in Older Adults
Join Alice Rota-Bartelink in a Master Class that addresses a particularly difficult problem
Mainstream aged care services are well designed to meet the physical care or basic functional needs of clients but often can not provide the structure to successfully manage neurobehaviourial disability expressed as challenging behaviour arising from long-term alcohol abuse.
"Excellent delivery of an issue that is very relevant in today's society. (Alice demonstrates) sound knowledge and experience with obvious passion for the topic" - Nicky Davies-Kelly, Princess Margaret Hospital, NZ
"Great class - well recommended with examples and ideas" - Helen Dore, FOCUS, NZ
BOOK AN IN-HOUSE MASTER CLASS FOR YOUR FACILITY, email info@changechampions.com.au for a quote.
IN-HOUSE: Pathways to a Consumer Focused Organisation- Governance and Managerial Approaches
In-house master class available anywhere in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia
2013 In houses - inquire today at info@changechampions.com.au!
It is timely for health care organisations, from boards to front-line staff, to gain a clear understanding of consumer participation and consumer experience principles.
Set within the context of the current health reforms and expanding mandatory requirements this Master Class is a strategic exploration and examination of the health consumer participation trilogy: consumer engagement, consumer involvement and consumer partnerships for organisation-wide quality improvement.
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CALL FOR WORKSHOP FACILITATORS
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We provide an agency service for passionate and engaging professionals to deliver Master Classes and workshops on topics that excite you and are relevant for the health, aged care, government and not for profit sectors.
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IN-HOUSE- Homeless and the Aged: The Service Providers Toolkit
In-House Master Class with Alice Rota-Barterlink
A practical master class and toolkit on improving the care of older homeless people.
BOOK AN IN-HOUSE MASTER CLASS FOR YOUR FACILITY, see PDF flyer and email info@changechampions.com.au for a quote.