The Importance of Belonging
ABOUT - This is the culminating session of a series of workshops sponsored by Merakey for the wider community.PRESENTER - David Pitonyak, Ph.D. Consultant – Imagine dimagine.com
details - Being connected to the people we love is critical to our emotional and physical well-being. Many people experiencing services are sick from loneliness. This workshop is about ideas for moving beyond interventions and coverage to a system that supports enduring, freely chosen relationships. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will have developed knowledge in the following areas: • The impact of loneliness in the lives of people who experience disabilities, particularly as it relates to difficult behaviors; • The importance of going home to the people we love as an important organizing strategy for helping people to develop relationships; • Strategies for helping people who are lonely to develop enduring, freely chosen, positive relationships. • Problem-solving strategies for times when relationships are unbalanced or slow in developing.
Tuesday September 3, 2019Rodef Shalom Congregation 4905 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213
9:30 am - 4:00 pm | Lunch is includedFREE for participants from southwestern PA $10/per person for participants from outside the region
RSVP by August 27 to Kelly Gremba at 412-299-2231 or Merakey_AVS@merakey.org. Space is limited.The program innovation and transformation project has been made possible by a grant to Merakey AVS from Polk Foundation.
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