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Sensory Solutions for Families: free instructional webinars April 16 & 30

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Quality of Life Institute Director, Dr. Anthony (Tony) M. McCrovitz, who specializes in training and providing support services within multi-sensory environments, will be sharing at home sensory solutions for families–for free! Each segment is 30 minutes packed with playtime fun, and includes some time for your comments and questions.

           

Create meaningful moments within the sensory framework of playtime. “Dr. Tony” will share ideas and interactive activities that are family favorites, hear your questions, and share a selection of toys and household items that can help to teach sensory integration, movement, and motor skills.

 

 

2020 MSE Learning Opportunity at Mohawk College March 9-11

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The QOL Institute has partnered with TFH Canada to offer a learning opportunity in Sensory Solutions, to be given at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, March 9 – 11. The focus for training in 2020 is improving quality of life with sensory solutions, plus interactive training in the fundamentals and benefits (therapeutic, educational, recreational) of working within multi-sensory environments.

The workshop presenters are global leaders and instructors in developing sensory solutions, applications, and best approaches for cultivating awareness and social-emotional development: Maurits Eijgendaal (Denmark), President of International Snooezelen-MSE Association, Ad Verheul (Netherlands), co-founder of Snooezelen-MSE therapy and senior Snooezelen-MSE advisor at Hartenberg Centre in the Netherlands; Dr. Anthony (Tony) M. McCrovitz U.S.), Executive Director, Quality of Life Institute, Inc., Board Member of ISNA-MSE, President, Indiana Professional Counseling Association (IPCF).

The workshop days are being hosted by Mohawk College, School of Community, Justice and Liberal Studies in Hamilton, Canada. The Multi-Sensory Lab at Mohawk College is a living-lab, adjacent to the workshop conference room.

Workshop REGISTRATIONS are $185/per day.

CLICK HERE for a complete schedule and list of topics with summaries.

Hotel Group Rates available at Courtyard Marriott Hamilton, ON.

[photo: Mohawk College Sensory Lab]

Gentle Teaching International Conference 2019

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Ghent, Belgium is the destination for this year’s Gentle Teaching International Conference, September 17, 18, and 19. Quality of Life Institute, Inc. will be represented. Executive Director Dr. Anthony M. McCrovitz with Curriculum and Communications Coordinator Mara Hawks, will present The Relation in Support and Care: In The Direction of Gentle Teaching.

The relation dynamic is at the heart of a Gentle Teaching practice, cultivating relationships with others that accelerate awareness, generate transformation, and create a culture of hope. 

With an understanding of how to use our tools (hands, eyes, words, presence) for creating mentoring steps that move us in the direction of Gentle Teaching, one can cultivate mindfulness for turning support and care toward relationship-building, with mutual benefits for each one’s discovery of potentials.

If there is no safety, there will be no learning. -Dr. John McGee, 1995

Learn how to map out mentoring steps with a Personal Teaching Planner that can be used for charting the course, incorporating elements of companionship and quality of life values. 

The teacher-centered Personal Teaching Planner supports the mentoring role. The Planner is a template for constructing a Gentle Teaching framework, prompting self-reflection, valuing, and meaningful planning of priorities and goals, along with the formulation of practical dialogue for successfully integrating the learning processes.

Every framework of Gentle Teaching uses the same “materials”for building the relationship, but the content of value and meaning differs for each one, as this is based on the unique needs and goals for each Individual or group with whom we are mentoring a spirit of gentleness.

 

 

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