Occupational Performance Coaching with Lucy Charles and Arul Hamil

Attention occupational therapists, speech pathologists and physiotherapists!

Don’t miss your opportunity to learn about Occupational Performance Coaching.

Disability SPOT is running Occupational Performance Coaching with Lucy Charles and Arul Hamilton again in 2023.  This is a popular event which we are so lucky to run!

Occupational Performance Coaching (OPC) is an amazing tool to add to your therapy bag. OPC will equip you with the skills to work in a truly collaborative way with clients and their families to achieve goals, problem solve and achieve long term sustainable change.

Learning with Lucy and Arul is invaluable, they combine their theoretical knowledge of OPC with over 50 years of clinical experience working with children and their families. Completing this training with Disability SPOT means you will be surrounded by like minded therapists working in the disability space.

What is OPC?

OPC is an intervention which is person, family and occupation-centred; enablement-focused; and research informed. OPC, an evidence-based practice developed by Dr. Fiona Graham (University of Otago, NZ).

What does OPC involve?

OPC involves working alongside clients to achieve goals for themselves, their children and/or families. In OPC therapists utilise specific processes of Connection, Structure, and Sharing that facilitate client engagement and goal achievement.

How will OPC help me?

OPC will help you develop coaching skills enabling you to partner with clients, parents and their families to achieve sustainable change. Coaching is how capacity with people and family units is built.

How does this course run?

Its completely online! This will be third online OPC course that Disability SPOT has convened. The course is highly interactive and numbers are capped to support learning. In addition a range of online learning tools including small group breakout rooms will be used to support participants to achieve the learning outcomes.

This interactive course that provides attendees with an opportunity to develop and practice their coaching skills will be run across 3 sessions:

Friday 1st Sep 2023, 8am to 2pm AEST

Saturday 2nd Sep 2023, 8am to 11am AEST

Followed by a 1 hour follow up in the subsequent 2 weeks- Date TBC

The cost of this course

Disability SPOT members $380

Non members $550

Please register via Eventbrite and more information is available on the Disability SPOT website.

For more information about Lucy and Arul

https://paediatricot.nz/#people/ArulLucy

For more information about OPC

https://www.otago.ac.nz/wellington/departments/medicine/postgraduate/rehabilitation/otago695258.html