Planning A Workshop For The Over 60S

Golden Reflections: Embracing Identity and Legacy after 60

What you'll learn

Be able to deliver a workshop for the Over-60s

Be able to identify (or modify) key activities that can be used in a workshop setting for the over-60s

Understand how acting in student films is a win-win for the elderly

The importance of a variety of activities in different settings when running a workshop

Requirements

nil

Description

This short course will enable you to plan a workshop (you don't have to call it 'Golden Reflections : Embracing Identity and Legacy after 60' if you don't want to!) for over-60 year olds.The objective of the workshop is:"To provide participants over the age of 60 with meaningful activities that foster self-reflection, celebrate life achievements, encourage new learning, and enhance social connections. This workshop aims to empower seniors to reflect on their past, embrace the present, and look forward to the future with optimism and purpose."Stage I of the course gives you an outline of the workshop.Stage II goes into greater depth.The special topic of acting in student films (with several examples) is dealt with in Stage III.Throughout the Workshop Plan it is stressed that this framework can be tweaked, adopted entirely or expanded on to suit your own requirements.This course comes with a list of advice of things over-60s should do (compiled by M Sanchez Jr.) These can be discussed in the Workshop or given out as a ResourceThe overall aim of the workshop is to 'deliver happiness and contentment' but remember this course is the PLAN for the workshop - it is you who has to deliver it!So who is THIS course for:Anyone who volunteers/works in Care HomesAnyone wanting to run a workshop for the Over-60s

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 The Objective

Section 2: Workshop Outline

Lecture 3 Workshop Outline

Section 3: Stage II

Lecture 4 Activities developed

Lecture 5 More activities

Section 4: Specifics

Lecture 6 Acting in student films

Lecture 7 The Elderly Gentleman

Section 5: Conclusion

Lecture 8 Conclusion

Anyone working in a Care Home environment,Anyone working with charities for the elderly,Volunteers,Someone seeking a business to run at a variety of locations,Anyone seeking government funds to run workshop activities,Someone who'd like to try something different,Anyone over-60 who fancies working with others to run workshops!