Continuing Education

The Sage OT Program is now an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. Attending a Sage-sponsored CE workshop will provide therapists with the professional development units (PDUs) needed to maintain NBCOT certification and NYS licensure.

Sage OT Continuing Education Series

Location:	Ricketts Hall Atrium, Sage Troy Campus Congress St. between 1st & 2nd Streets
Registration:	Contact OT office at (518) 244-2267 or email chalun@sage.edu (Nicki Chaluisan)

Low Vision Workshop: Rebuilding Lives Through Vision Rehabilitation

By Ryan M. Peterson OTR/L

Thursday 9/25/08; 3-6:00 p.m.

Cost: $10 (participants will receive .3 CEU for attendance)

To register, contact Nicki Chaluisan at chalun@sage.edu or 518/244-2267. Cash payment accepted at door.

Art Play Imagination: Connecting the dots across practice settings"

Presented by Denie Whalen, OTR/L

Director of New York Expressive Arts

Thursday, 10/16/08; 3-5:00 p.m.

Goal:

To explore and discover connections between the creative process and qualities of relaxation, motivation, exploration and persistence that are relevant to the helping professions.

Learning Objectives:

1. To identify basic principles of an art-based approach that interface with rehab concepts.

a. How is the creative shaping process a way express a response to ones world?
b. How can play create a relaxed and effective learning environment.(Flow)
c. How does the low skill / high sensitivity methods of
expressive arts open the enabling resources and opportunities of the creative imagination to everyone regardless of talent and artistic training.
d. How does using the arts in combination deepen an art-based experience and lead to meaning.
e. What is the evidence that the creative/aesthetic response is an inherent human inclination?

2. To understand the differences and similarities among the various art modalities.

3. To understand the adaptable nature of art-based activities for all ages and populations using the psychodramatic social atom as an example.

4. To experience a simple non-verbal art making activity that invites lessening of self-consciousness and increase of confidence by its emphasis on engagement and enjoyment.

Cost: $10 (participants will receive .2 CEU for attendance)

To register, contact Nicki Chaluisan at chalun@sage.edu or 518/244-2267. Cash payment accepted at door.