Emotional Wellbeing: Severe and Profound Learning Disabilities and PMLD

A workshop for carers, family members, education, health and social care professionals and therapists exploring:

• How to recognise and respond to needs
• How to provide emotional care and support
• Simple, effective, compassionate, practical, evidence-based strategies and approaches
• How we can establish emotional care within daily routines and activities
• Developing personalised emotional care and education plans

Here is what you’ll get:

• A live 2 hour workshop held on Zoom with opportunity for screen breaks
• Research evidence and theory, as well as suggestions for how you can best support those you love and care for
• Opportunity for questions
• Optional group discussion in breakout rooms
• A certificate of attendance and a pdf colour handout (available on request)

By attending this workshop you will learn strategies that:

• Can be used in home and school and adult services and settings
• Can be used to support children and adults
• Do not rely on cognitive and language skills and abilities
• Do not require any specialist equipment

Please note: If you are a family member and would like to attend but have difficulties paying, please get in touch, in confidence, by emailing [email protected]

Dr Julie Calveley is the Founder Director of NAC, a UK based community interest company that exists to support the emotional wellbeing of people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities and PMLD (www.nacwellbeing.org).

Julie is a registered learning disability nurse with over 25 years of experience and qualifications and training in psychology, mental health, behaviour, neuroscience and trauma.

She is the author of a number of publications and book chapters in the field of intellectual / learning disabilities.