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Creating Conversations Bronze Award for Starting Out
Creating Conversations is all about encouraging communication to reduce isolation and loneliness. It is a fun and easy to use evidence based kit that helps people living with dementia communicate with their families, carers and the wider community. This Badge is ideal to a someone using our social activity kits for the very first time. It will support you to get the most out of the kit if you are trying out our kits to facilitate or support a conversation session and should help with your first steps towards confident social communication. It will support your awareness of the broader physical and social dynamics that can impact on the delivery of meaningful activities with people living with dementia in care settings.
Who is the Creating Conversations Badge for:
The badge will be of value to anyone who is supporting or leading meaningful activities in a care setting, particularly where they might be working with people living with dementia. The toolkit and open badges can support you to:
– to move into role as activity coordinator
– to develop knowledge, skills and experience in faciliatating and valuing meaningful activity in care settings
– to use meaningful activity as a driver for changes to improve care, environment or community connections
-to encourage imaginative participant led service development.
It will help you to begin to observe more critically the quality of the activity and communication that takes place in a group discussion. This will enable you to discuss this with colleagues and draw some conclusions. This will support you to develop meaningful and engaging conversations and activity using Creating Conversations as a tool.
Why we are offering Open Badges:
- To encourage use of Creating Conversations toolkits, learn from feedback and to evidence impact and outcomes of use
How will people living with dementia benefit?:
- The badges aim to support participants to enjoy higher quality activity and social opportunities in care and to have more opportunities to influence the provision.
Why should I achieve badges in my care setting?
- To demonstrate the quality of activity provision in the setting
- To ensure you get the most out of the tool-kit
- To make sure that communication and activity provision is everyone’s responsibility
Here is an introduction to the tool-kit and story:
Visit http://www.creating-conversations.org for more information and to explore the kit itself further.
How do I know the kit can deliver for me or for my setting?
Download our evidence, an evaluation supported by Stirling University here: Summary of Findings
You can also download the Observation Framework which has guidance and tools to help evidence impact of the kit in your setting.
Once you have completed the Bronze Badge you may progress on to a Silver Badge which links your experience of using the toolkit to our evidence base from Stirling University.
1. Participate in a Creating Conversations session/programme
2. Contribute through role to meaningful conversations
3. Reflect on the experience and any learning observations
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Produce a short report, blog post or even a slideshow or video to evidence your engagement with the Creating Conversations toolkit resource and how you used it in your setting. If you can include some of the following in your evidence this would help:
1. Participate in a Creating Conversations session/programme
a) Look at how people participating respond to the tablecloth and note any interesting conversation topics that emerge.
b) Did you notice any signs of people becoming less anxious, or using humour to join in the group conversations. Give any example.
c) Did you find the process of laying the table, relaxing into conversation with tea followed by an activity working for the group?
d) Did the group feel they had enjoyed the activity?
e) Did the group make any contribution to future plans for sessions?
2. Share any evidence from the session
Include a picture or photo from the activity or conversations (check for permission before sharing any images of people)
Or share a quote from the conversation
3) Impact on you
Tell us if you found anything particularly helpful about using the kit in how your interact and talk with people in the group.
Badge issuer
Creating Conversations
We develop fun and easy to use evidenced based products that help conversations flow and enhance well-being for people living with dementia.
Submit your application
The SSSC Open Badge system relies on trust. We trust that the evidence you provide will be of your own work and based on your own skills and knowledge. By submitting an application you agree to the following statement: “In studying and completing the activities for this badge, I confirm that all the work provided as evidence will be my own.” The SSSC will revoke a badge if the evidence provided is discovered to have been the work of someone else.
Your evidence, name, and email address will be sent to the organisation who issue this badge