David Pitonyak – The Importance of Belonging
Description
Being connected to the people we love is critical to our emotional and physical well-being. Many people experiencing our 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. The workshop can be conducted in either a one-day or two-day format (the latter involves problem-solving with teams).
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 behaviours;
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.
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David Pitonyak
David is retired but spent most of his career working with people described as having ‘difficult behaviours’. David believes that peoples behaviours are messages, that tell us important things about their lives, they might be ill, be experiencing trauma or have a life where they feel lonely, powerless or lack joy in their life. We are pleased to have persuaded him to come out of retirement for one morning to deliver his inspirational workshop the importance of belonging. Attendees will reflect on their own experiences, have space to consider deeply how the people they support and their family’s life experiences shape them, their behaviour and our interactions with them.
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