Event Details

MAES Advanced  ‘A.R.T.’ COURSE

Advance – Refresh – Troubleshoot

1-Week Advanced Course for Therapists who have already successfully completed the 4-Week M.A.E.S. Foundation Course.

An opportunity to refresh, question, troubleshoot, go deeper, and to advance your M.A.E.S. skills!

 

Course Dates:

Monday 11 – Friday 15 December 2023

Length of Course:  1-Week  ( 5 Days “full-on” days with JP and the Team ! )

 

Venue:    Johannesburg
                      Venue to be confirmed.

Course Presented & Supervised by:   Jean-Pierre Maes and the M.A.E.S. Team

Course Fees:

Early Bird:  £750 GBP    (approx R17 950 based on Exchange Rate at time of publication)  To be paid by  30 April 2024   Deadline extended to 30 June 2024

Late Registration:  £850 GBP   (approx R20,300 based on Exchange Rate at time of publication)  To be paid by 30 Sept.2024

First come, first served. Fee payment secures your place.

 

Course Participant’s Criteria:

A specialist course only open to Therapists who have already successfully completed the 4-Week M.A.E.S. Foundation Course.

 

Course Format:

5 days Face-to-Face with Jean-Pierre, sharing his extensive knowledge and experience – case presentations, numerous video analyses and discussions, practical sessions and workshops.

 

Registration:  

Numbers are limited – first come, first served !

For further information and to request a Registration Form, contact:

Jonathan Salsbury MIoD
Development Director, MAES Therapy International

E:   jsalsbury@maestherapy.com

 

Course Aims:  

This course aims for:

M.A.E.S. Trained Paediatric Therapists to refresh, go deeper, to review, question, troubleshoot and to advance their M.A.E.S. Therapy approach, knowledge, and clinical skills.

This will include reviewing and further developing:

  • The ‘M.A.E.S. Framework’ for an effective assessment and better understanding of the challenges and needs of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and similar neurodevelopmental conditions
  • Expert analysis of coordination and effective and structured clinical reasoning skills.
  • Increased proficiency in prioritising and identifying which specific skills a child is missing and that need to be promoted and at the same time discouraging the compensatory strategies this child is over-relying upon and which prevents the development of more advanced skills.
  • Further develop Therapists’ high-level problem-solving abilities to then provide each child with specific sensory-motor experiences to make best use of their own potential for improvement.
  • Effectively informing and guiding parents during treatment sessions, including the use of toys for play and advise them how to best interact with their child during activities of daily living in a home environment.
  • Expand creative thinking and develop an extensive repertoire of treatment strategies which can then be applied more confidently in a range of situations to enable the child to learn new ways that he would have difficulty or not be able to develop on his own.

M.A.E.S. Therapy is a pioneering evidence-based approach, underpinned by practice evidence, patient evidence and contextual evidence from 30 years’ expert clinical and teaching experience world-wide and focusing on excellent treatment skills.

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