Quality of Life Institute, Inc.

Indiana Agency Providing CARF-Accredited Quality of Life Services

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GLOBE STAR LLC is an agency in northwest Indiana, providing direct, Quality of Life Services for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. The core foundation of their services, programs, and professional training of mentors and caregivers, is Gentle Teaching.

A practice of Gentle Teaching mentors a spirit of gentleness. Mentoring gentleness is about unconditional valuing while teaching and protecting the Individual. With a Gentle Teaching framework that guides the relationship-building processes, one learns how to feel safe and loved, loving and engaged.

The process begins with me, with self-reflection and personal change or shifting of perspective toward relationship-building, that initiates mutually transforming interactions and connections. New learning experiences and growing awareness naturally encourage reciprocation of what is being learned and valued by the person receiving services.

Mentoring a spirit of gentleness is focused on discovering and cultivating what has value and meaning for a person’s life. The mentoring/learning processes cultivate one’s awareness for knowing and growing, together, by developing the human capacity and social-emotional necessity for companionship and a sense of community.

Through the development of companionship and a sense of community with others, the social-emotional conditions for cultivating one’s authentic voice and choice (self-determination) become accessible and meaningful for creating one’s narrative and quality of life planning. 

Creating companionship and community with others invites a sense of belonging and a genuine feeling of being valued. These essential growth factors lay the foundation for social-emotional development that, when cultivated, create “growing room” for the blossoming of being and becoming human.

***Globe Star has been serving families and communities in northwest Indiana since 1996, with various locations offering services in and around Chesterton, South Bend, Warsaw, Lafayette, and Indianapolis.

LEARN MORE HERE or CONTACT their main office for a free consultation about services and programs, or to check for availability in your area.***

JUNE 13 Webinar on Multi-Sensory Environments for the Home: Feeding the Kind Wolf

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Part of a webinar training series produced by the Quality of Life Institute, Inc., and provided as an educational service to promote the potentials and possibilities for quality of life outcomes, when working with others in multi-sensory environments. Presentation of topics is approximately 45 minutes, with some additional time allowed for questions and discussion. Registration is free.

Creating Home Multi-Sensory Environments that Promote Healthy Family Dynamics: Feeding the Kind Wolf is Wednesday’s topic at noon (EST) on June 11th for the ongoing webinar series: Re-Imagining Multi-Sensory Environments, Designs, Uses, and Applications for Snoezelen®-based, Multi-Sensory Environments.

Presenter will offer a comprehensive resource guide for creating multi-sensory environments, and illustrates how to create a customized and affordable, home MSE for a child and their family. “These can support emotional self-regulation in all family members, as each individual journeys through personal and shared life transitions, develops new and adapts old routines, and adjusts to evolving family needs for relationship. MSEs are ideal for providing variable environmental conditions to support upward emotional shifts into joyful play, downward emotional shift into relaxation and possibly sleep, or a just-right state for self-motivated and optimally engaged learning. Individualized multi-sensory activities can be embedded in your home MSE as you help your child develop new skills and greater independence.”

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QOLI Gentle Teaching Workshop at SHARE Foundation, May 2018

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Registration is open for the annual Gentle Teaching workshop at the SHARE Foundation. This 3-day learning event, held at the St. Timothy Center in Sharing Meadows, Indiana, is produced by the Quality of Life Institute, Inc., in collaboration with Globe Star and the SHARE Foundation.

This event will be welcoming back Dr. Anthony M. McCrovitz (Director of Quality of Life Institute, Inc., co-founder of Globe Star), and Maurits Eijgendaal from the Netherlands (President of International Snoezelen-MSE Association, a leader and manager of social organizations for more than 35 years; past president of Gentle Teaching International).

Together, they will present a foundational understanding of Gentle Teaching, its philosophy and essential applications for a practice of mentoring a spirit of gentleness.

“Wisdom is about what to do next ” is this year’s theme. 

We will discuss the path of decision-making in our mentoring work, and how the four pillars of a Gentle Teaching framework (safe, loved, loving, engaged) guide the mentor in engaging the other in dialogue (verbal & non-verbal).

Mentoring a spirit of gentleness cultivates interactions that are peaceable, gentle, and without partiality [unconditional acceptance].

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Our Location

In the heart of a small town in midwestern America, our office is found in the historic district of Chesterton, Indiana, a part of what is known along a stretch of Lake Michigan as the Duneland area. We connect and work with others around the world.

621 Broadway, Chesterton, IN, 46304, USA

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PICO Art Books Project & Fundraiser

Your donation is greatly appreciated and will be used to help fund the bilingual PICO ART BOOKS PROJECT (click the link to learn more). This is a collaborative effort sponsored by Quality of Life Institute, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization, with the quality-of-life services agency of Globe Star that works with Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, providing  CARF-accredited, Quality of Work Life Services and programs.

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