ONLINE TRAINING

Do you want to see more authentic joy in your care or community setting? If so, this 12-week, online training and mentoring programme will help you do just that.

We are offering this online training to 20 Hampshire-based support, care or community workers and volunteers absolutely free of charge due to generous funding.

Would your residents, clients and patients benefit from more regular, creative physical and emotional wellbeing activities? 

Would you, your staff or volunteers benefit from joyful training to inspire creativity and confidence and improve knowledge to deliver enjoyable JAMS-style arts as wellbeing sessions?

 A special group of Hampshire-based men and women who support others in their professional or volunteer roles, and who would like to develop their creative leadership skills and confidence, will have the opportunity to engage with this free pilot, online course.

The aims of the course:

Reduce clients boredom

Increase clients activity

Build relationships

Inspire staff creativity

Develop staff knowledge

Improve staff confidence 

About the course

The course consists of 12 weekly, 30-minute pre-recorded lessons (conveniently accessible anytime) which will combine theory and practical demonstration with ideas for you to try with community and care ‘home’ groups.  

An easy-to-use, inspiring workbook accompanies the course that includes all the information discussed in the recordings and exciting take-home activities, which trainees will enjoy completing and then writing about their experiences.  

Bi-monthly, drop-in mentoring sessions and a supportive WhatsApp group will provide opportunities to share ideas, difficulties and good practice; to develop a creative community of peer support.  

JAMS will deliver a session at your setting at the beginning of the training and then visit your setting at the end of the 12-week programme to experience a JAMS session delivered by your settings’ trainees. This final session will form part of the accreditation process.  

Upon completion of the accompanying training booklet, a brief chat about their learning and leading a JAMS session, trainees will be accredited JAMS Ambassadors and will have all the skills and resources needed to lead successful arts as wellbeing sessions.  

An online resource library will provide simple lesson plans, blank templates, lists of themes, music playlists and associated resources to make providing high-quality, enjoyable and meaningful arts as wellbeing activities as easy as possible.  

Trainees will connect with their own creativity; explore the skills they already have and develop new approaches.  

Just 1 hour a week for 12 weeks

The course has been designed with the demands of care, community and voluntary positions in mind. Each of the 12 pre-recorded training sessions will last a maximum of 30 minutes, these can be accessed anywhere there is internet availability. Trainees will be given ‘homework’ to explore the session’s themes in their work place and spend 10 minutes writing about that experience in the booklet. There will be an additional, optional 20 minutes of ‘refresher’ reading from the booklet. In total the weekly commitment is around 1 hour with some additional time trying things out with clients.  

The course is developed by JAMS and will be delivered by JAMS’ artistic director, Louisa White. Louisa has been providing JAMS activities in care, hospital and community settings for 10 years. And has been a dance and movement practitioner for over 20 years. She is a registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator and a Yoga Teacher. Louisa is an Internationally Qualified Course Leader for the Sherborne Developmental Movement Association and has provided training in schools, residential care and hospital settings.