COUNTRY: UAE
TRAINING: Workshop in Snoezelen Approach For parents / caregivers
FORMAT: In-person
TRAINER: Ana Lucia Frutuoso, OT
TOTAL HOURS: 1H30
DATE: 11 October, 10 to 11:30 am
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ZenSenses will be present at the AccessabilitiesExpo Dubai 2023 - Stand number 7241 – showing the use of the Snoezelen Approach, which has had an incredible evolution around the world!
It will be available at the Expo:
- Training in Snoezelen Approach for students, professionals and parents / caregivers
- Consultancy & creation of multisensory spaces
- Fantastic sensory products for sale
- Opportunity to take pictures in this spectacular immersive environment!
Workshop in Snoezelen Approach For parents / caregivers
It will have 1h30 duration, on 11/10, from 10 to 11:30 am, in our Snoezelen room at the Expo.
Registration: 200 AED
Payment: Paypal or Wise.
More information: info@zensenses.org
What is SNOEZELEN?
“Snoezelen means SNUFFELEN = See and explore; DOEZELEN = Relax, is a room equipped with rich sensory material. Wonderful place, made of light, sounds, colors, textures and aromas, where objects are colored and made available to be touched and admired. They enchant those who see or touch them by deflecting their stress and aggression. The primary senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) are stimulated, giving a sensation of pleasure, favoring intellectual development (Amcip 2009).”
Taking into account the most current evidence and the Covid-19 pandemic, which required people to be confined at home, it became evident that this is a very important topic in order to provide strategies and transmit knowledge to caregivers of people with pathologies, whether for example children and young people with disabilities or elderly people with dementia, who cannot travel to the indicated places for their rehabilitation or technical monitoring, or to reinforce the intervention carried out.
On the other hand, most caregivers tend to present high levels of overload and emotional exhaustion, since the act of caring for a person with certain pathologies is a complex process. This overload can lead to the development of psychiatric symptoms (which can compromise the ability to provide care).
Snoezelen at home is therefore an important approach both to prevent regression in the person with the pathology, and to reduce the burden on caregivers and give them the comfort they so badly need.
Therapeutic interventions through Snoezelen can bring numerous benefits, such as sensory stimulation, promotion of relaxation, development of certain skills, increasing interpersonal relationships, trust in others and promoting communication, as well as preventing or intervening in exhaustion and burnout.
CONCEPT...
Snoezelen, as a philosophy of therapeutic intervention with people with multiple disabilities, emerged in the Netherlands in the 1970s as a source of exploration and relaxation. It provides comfort, through controlled stimuli, and offers a large amount of sensory stimuli, used individually or in combination with the unique effects of music, sounds, light effects, soft vibrations, tactile sensations and aromatherapy.
The Snoezelen environment promotes self-control, autonomy, discovery and exploration, and positive therapeutic and pedagogical effects. Using a multisensory environment allows therapy to be unique to each person.
Monitors, assistants, parents and caregivers of people who benefit from this environment.
PEDAGOGICAL METHODOLOGIES
Ana Lucia Frutuoso
Graduated in Occupational Therapy since 2007, she has knowledge and experience with Snoezelen, especially in the monitoring of people with mental illness, disabilities and the elderly working as an Occupational Therapist in a community center for 10 years. She lives in Porto, Portugal.
She created ZenSenses - Therapy by the Senses in 2011 and has been training in the area of Snoezelen and others since then.
President of the international voluntary association SER+ DAR+ Terapeutas Sem Fronteiras (Therapists Without Borders), with intervention in Cape Verde and Portugal. Distinguished with the Merit Award in the Institution and Solidarity category at the 2019 Europe-Africa Women Entrepreneurs Gala.
