The Imagination Toolkit is a resource that helps people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) and those who support them, to explore their feelings and emotions through the narrative of multi-sensory stories. An experiential course accompanies the resource and introduces people to reasons why stories (narrative) give meaning to our lives and are important in helping to process emotions, particularly during challenging times in our lives.

 

The resource will explain how stories give meaning and understanding to events that may be emotionally challenging for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities. Everyone deserves to have the opportunity to have their feelings acknowledged and it is no different for those who have no voice. The resource provides a practical framework where people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and those caring for them can explore emotions together through multi-sensory story narrative.

 

The course will also provide opportunities to learn how to design, develop and deliver multi-sensory stories. It also explores the importance of the story space and how being in that space helps to develop a model of practice based on presence, trust and knowing.

 

The Imagination Toolkit provides you with practical skills to help you to connect with people with PMLD during challenging times through multi-sensory stories and it is lots of fun too!

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