Workshops and Courses

Free Information Meetings and Courses are offered throughout the year. Meetings and courses can be done on-line via ZOOM or in person.

Free Information Meeting

A Glimpse into HANDLE

This meeting is for you if you are a parent, professional, caregiver, or curious individual who seeks a better understanding of how behaviors can communicate about underlying neurological stressors.

HANDLE, a Holistic Approach to Neuro-Development and Learning Efficiency addresses many issues of behavior, social, emotional, and physical function. 

HANDLE is a non-drug therapeutic modality that respects the body, mind, and soul by identifying sources of stress which are interfering with day to day living (school, home, work). 

HANDLE applies the principle of Gentle Enhancement® to strengthen weakened neurological systems and help the body and brain work more efficiently together. It addresses learning challenges, perplexing behaviors, and issues of aging...among others.

The presentation is an on-line event and will be about 45 minutes, including demonstrations and hands-on experiences. There will be additional time at the end for discussion.

Level 1- An Introduction to HANDLE

HANDLE, a Holistic Approach to Neurodevelopment and Learning Efficiency, suitable for all ages. It addresses many issues of behavior, as well as social, emotional and physical function. It is a gentle, non-drug modality, which takes advantage of neuroplasticity to help the body and brain work more efficiently together. HANDLE is suited for all ages.

This course is for you if you are a parent, professional, caregiver or curious individual who seeks a better understanding of how behaviors can communicate about underlying neurological stressors.

Course Content

• Begin to explore how irregularities in neurological and developmental systems relate to perplexing behaviors and dysfunction
• Begin to understand how different sensory systems impact one another
• The impact of the internal and external environments on stress and behaviors.
• Understanding how nutrition and good health enhance our abilities
• See yourself and others through non-judgmental eyes
• Recognize subtle signs of stress and intervene before the consequences manifest
• Learning tools and knowledge to apply in everyday situations   

Fee: $95 USD (free for repeating students with prior certificate)

Level 2 - The Basics of HANDLE

The course explores how irregularities in neurological and developmental systems relate to perplexing behaviors and dysfunction and offers activities, strategies and compensations to reduce stress and improve function.  In this course, you will understand more about what behaviors can reveal about neurological irregularities using the HANDLE® paradigm. Specifically, we'll look at different sensory and organizational systems and discuss behaviors that may indicate irregularities in them.  This course is the core of the HANDLE approach.

Course Content:

• Discover root causes of challenging behaviors and learning difficulties
• Develop a new understanding of the senses and motor functions
•  Understand and interpret learning, social and behavioral challenges
• Explore the neurodevelopmental systems - the building blocks of learning and achievement
• Discover the elements of learning – such as the numerous systemic influences on writing
• Learn how to positively enhance learning without over- whelm
• Learn how neurodevelopmental systems develop, affect and support each other
• Learn 6 more HANDLE Activities and exploring
• a wide range of variations and applications for each

Fee: $275 USD (free for repeating students with prior certificate)

Level 3 - Instruction - Screener Course

(1st Course for certification as a HANDLE Screener)

Prerequisites: The application process is open to those who have certification of completing HANDLE Levels 1 & 2 or the Applied Level 2

This course is for people who want to become providers of HANDLE Services.

This course will teach you how to carry out a HANDLE Screening and create a customized HANDLE program to address the issues you discover. The HANDLE Screening is for clients from the age of five and for adults of any age, with mild to moderate challenges. The client is expected to be verbal, able to hold a pencil, follow instructions and can do some tasks at a table for approximately 45 minutes.

Completion of all course requirements enables you to be certified as a HANDLE Screener by The HANDLE Institute^®, and to use the HANDLE Screening Tool and Activities professionally.

What is covered in this course?

•      Participants receive a personal HANDLE Screening, insights into their own unique ways of functioning in the world, and an individualized program of HANDLE activities.

•      The screening process: the screening tool tasks, making sense of observations and intake information, creating a program, presenting your findings, all this with a non-judgmental attitude and a systems perspective.

•      Further exploration of the concepts taught in Levels 1 and 2. Build a deeper knowledge and understanding of the Foundations of the HANDLE Paradigm

•      Review and exploration of the activities taught in Levels 1 and 2, plus 13 additional HANDLE activities that can be applied to enhance functions for those you screen; as well as how to modify the activities to meet the needs of your clients.

•      Practice of activities and screening tasks in small groups with peers

•      Expansion of your capacities to feel, watch, listen and think. To be present.

•      Supervised practicum work with clients:  These are supervised screenings with clients, in which you will work with your peers as a team. You will screen at least two clients and assist your teammates with at least four more. This will give you the opportunity to identify weak systems, determine appropriate recommendations, and present the findings to client families. The training will include working with clients who are in the same space as the Screener-student. All of this will be online.

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Contact me for Registration

Nancy@ParzivalTherapies.com

Nancy Dill is a Level 3 Instructor in Training, with supervision from Mary Robson (President of the HANDLE Institute and senior Practitioner, Instructor and Supervisor)