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Certificate in Creative Care
Date: 22-27 February 2007
Venue: Tír na nÓg, Slievenagorta, Ballymore, Co Westmeath
Cost: €600 in total (€200 per module)

The Creative Care Course has three two day modules, repeated regularly:

Essential Play  – Working with Pre-school Children and Clients with Special Needs
Play and sensory development is the core of this module and we discover how messy play is essential for learning bodily control and boundaries.  We shall learn about playful parenting and play with newborn babies and toddlers and its beginnings during pregnancy.

The developmental sequence of embodiment-projection-role demonstrates how we can both observe and structure play development.  We will address the importance of play with young children, clients with special needs, and institutionalised clients.

Cross Cultural Play – Working with International Children
Essential skills for NGO volunteers working in disaster areas and with International children in Ireland and abroad.  We take a human-rights based approach in creating play and storytelling especially for situations where therapeutic play is still to be discovered. The course teaches adaptable take away skills in play, puppetry, storytelling. We shall work with identity through play for newly arrived immigrant children and their families and the impact of sudden change and trauma.

Creative Play – Introduction to Storytelling and Play Skills
This module develops participants’ skills in observing child development and play skills.  We shall look at personal expression through stories and be aware of the story the child needs to tell.  We shall use puppets for storytelling and play, and include the importance of nature play.

Observation of children's coping skills will enable us to understand resilience and trauma and how play can assist recovery. We will address the importance of play in the life of clients with learning difficulties.

Further information on this course is in the Course Details, which you can download by clicking below.