Our parishes desire to welcome and include people with dementia as well as their carers. Training workshops run as part of the ‘Welcome Me as I Am’ project help us to do this in a sensitive and loving way alongside the national initiative on dementia-friendly communities. Each participant can be a 'dementia friend' if they wish.
Click HERE for more information about the project, to get further details of the next training session in Central London on 18th July, and to register.
Some feedback from the last workshop:
'The workshop gave me wonderful insight on a personal level and enthused me to take all this back to my faith community/parish'.
'I got confirmation that I was doing things right with Mum and got better insight to things which I had not thought about before, like the emotional element'.
'I appreciated learning about 'the power of presence'.
'I learnt that it is possible to counsel people with dementia'.
'Its been a fantastic day - inspiring - thank you'.
