Holistic Approaches for Enabling Persons Living with Dementia

Holistic Approaches for Enabling Persons Living with Dementia

This workshop aims to provide you with some practical, immediately useable tools to enable a person living with dementia feel comfortable about therapeutic touch.

We will explore how we may enable autonomy, consent, how to hold space and adjust communication accordingly with compassion.

You will have an opportunity to use your massage and regulation skills to connect with a person and fulfil unmet needs on their terms.

Nicolle Mitchell

Nicolle has practiced holistic massage in Cornwall since 1998. She visits clients who live with dementia to administer integrated massage treatments which involve aromatherapy and other creative therapeutic approaches.

More widely, Nicolle has worked therapeutically with children, young people & people with additional needs for over 30 years, specialising in the field of dementia and taking a special interest in trauma. This led to her developing an approved/accredited course “Massaging Persons Living with Dementia” the first course of its kind in the UK.

As well as facilitating training Nicolle delivers talks, seminars, workshops and presentations, writes articles on her special interests & blogs occasionally too.

On a personal level, Nicolle loves working or unwinding in her young food forest using a permaculture design model based on the principles of, “Earth care, People Care, Fair Share”.