Organizational & Group Training
Become a Creative Community of Care
The TimeSlips’ Creative Community of Care (CCC) model of training and certification teaches staff across your organization how to embed creative engagement and community building techniques across your community. An organization’s staff will be trained in the TimeSlips’ communication method and learn fun and easy ways to integrate creativity into daily interactions and tasks while enriching their relationships with the elders with whom they work.
Senior Service Providers
Bring joy to the elders, families and staff you serve.
Educational Institutions
Bring joy to the elders, families and staff you serve.
Community Organizations
Bring joy to the elders, families and staff you serve.
Training & Certification
TimeSlips’ organizational training includes robust online training and certification, webinars, and guidance from a TimeSlips Trainer to embed creative engagement in everyday interactions. The Trainer will also help you identify the creative assets or talents that already reside within your organization; plan programming that builds upon the TimeSlips method; and works towards sharing creativity in your community. This can include include loved ones, friends, staff, outside partners, and volunteers, and anyone else you’d like to invite to participate to your TimeSlips-inspired work.
To become a TimeSlips’ Certified organization:
- Share the TimeSlips online module training with organization staff who are certifying.
- After practice of the method with groups of elders, attend a coaching session with a Certified TimeSlips Trainer to complete individual certification (for each person training).
- Support the engagement of your broader community (e.g., loved ones, friends, volunteers) through Friends and Family online module.
- Recognize your organization’s wider implementation of the TimeSlips method through ongoing creative engagement.
Online Training
The online training for your staff includes six modules that take approximately 2.5 hours for each individual to complete. The modules can be started and stopped at a staff member’s convenience. Each module delves into the concepts that are key to successful execution of the TimeSlips’ method.
Once your staff completes the online training modules, your organization is assigned a Lead Trainer who will provide personalized feedback, online, to trainees. The Lead Trainer will work with your staff throughout the certification process (which includes practice sessions and a self-evaluation) so that by the end of their training, they will know they are executing the method in a way that aligns with the TimeSlips’ evidence base.
Webinar-based training for staff in your organization include:
- Webinar 1: Creative Engagement Programming
- Webinar 2: Long Range Project Planning
The 18-minute “Creative Engagement Programming” webinar explains the how and why to implement and sustain Creative Engagement in your organization. The 30-minute“Long Range Project Planning” webinar shares how to create a project plan and provides inspiring examples of projects other organizations have completed. Both webinars provide your organization with a deeper understanding of the TimeSlips methodology.
Once Certified, your organization’s profile will be added to the interactive map on the TimeSlips website indicating that your organization is a TimeSlips certified Creative Community of Care.
If you have questions about TimeSlips’ organizational training, please Contact Us.
