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How to Host an Eden at Home

Trainer Certification
Workshop…
 Your Host from The Eden Alternative
Laura Beck – Program Director, Eden at Home

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• 45 Minutes
• Please Ask Questions at the End
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Today’s Agenda
What is The Eden Alternative?
Even a Home Can Feel Like an Institution
The Eden at Home Series
How Does It Work?
Reflections from Trainers
Reflections from Care Partners
Our Curriculum
Hosting an Eden at Home Trainer Certification Workshop
Benefits of Hosting
What Does It Mean For You?
Other Eden Alternative Offerings
Questions & Wrap-Up
 The Eden Alternative
Now an international, not-for-profit organization
that began in a single upstate New York nursing home
in 1991.

Part of a social movement to change how we

think about and care for our Elders.

Focuses on improving quality of life for Elders and

their care partners by seeking to eliminate the three
plagues of Loneliness, Helplessness, & Boredom.

Has a history of transforming the organizational

culture of hundreds of long-term care
Founders, Dr. Bill and Judy Thomas
organizations, known as Eden-registered homes.
The Eden Alternative
Based on…

The belief that aging is about continued

growth and development, not simply a period
of decline.

The assumption that an Elder is someone

who, by virtue of life experience, is here to
teach us how to live.

10 guiding Principles, grounded in ancient

ideas, that emphasize how Human Habitats can
Founders, Dr. Bill and Judy Thomas
transform the culture of care.
Even a home can feel like
an institution if...
Eden at Home
Applies Eden’s 10 principles to home and
community-based care.

Enhances quality of life for Elders living at

home and for their care partners.

Acknowledges that Elders have

something to offer their communities.

Empowers staff, as well as community

members at the grassroots level.

Builds bridges between clients and staff &

between neighborhood streets and more
formalized retirement communities.
The Eden at Home Series
Includes a General and a Dementia-Specific version, both of which maintain that…

The three plagues can impact every

member of the care partner team.

Meaningful care is that which nurtures the

human spirit as well as the human body,while
celebrating and encouraging each person’s
unique capacity for growth.

The needs of caregivers and care

receivers alike are part of an interdependent
system called Care Partnership.

The creation of collaborative and

supportive care partner teams include the
participation of the Elder herself.
The Care Partner Team

 The Elder herself What Human Habitats Do for the Team…

 Family members
Help care partners work together supportively
 Friends
 Neighbors Help Elders maintain function & independence
 Volunteers Promote gentleness between care partners
 Medical Team
 Home Health Professionals, and/or
 Staff
How Does It Work?

Eden Alternative trains

Certified Eden at Home
(EAH) Trainers…
EAH Trainers facilitate EAH
Care Partner Workshops
How Does It Work?
Who might want to be a trainer?
Representatives of:
•Non-profit organizations
•State agencies,
•Case management,
•Home-health organizations,
•Faith-based organizations,
•Area Agencies on Aging,
•Senior centers,
Eden Alternative trains •Adult day centers, or
Certified Eden at Home •Long-term care organizations w/ assisted
(EAH) Trainers… living and/or independent living options,
home health outreach, or interested in
supporting short-term rehabilitation patients
Becoming an EAH Trainer…

October 2009 Ithaca, NY

Graduating Class
“What an awesome experience! I must admit that the
three days were even more than I bargained for –
inspiring, stimulating, and emotionally super-
charged. Thank you for providing such an excellent
learning opportunity."
-Brian Levitan
Certified EAH Trainer
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
“Eden at Home Trainer Certification resonated powerfully
with my values and passion as a Social Worker, and
challenged me to think much more broadly about my work
with Elders and their Care Partners. I am growing
personally and professionally through what started here in
Eden."
-Lisa Kendall
Certified EAH Trainer
Ithaca, NY
 How Does It Work?
Who should attend Care Partner Workshops?

• Family members
• Friends
• Neighbors
• Elders
• Home health professionals
• Staff, or
• Anyone interested in promoting person-
directed care at the grassroots level.
EAH Care Partner Workshops
Invite different stakeholders to
the table so that they can learn
from each other!
 How Did They Grow?

 Over 1/2 of participants

have seen positive changes
Positive Changes in their relationships with
their Elder care partner, over
in Relationships time through 6 months.
With Other Care Partners
 7 in 10 have seen positive
changes in relationships with
other family members,
maintained over time through
6 months.
How Did They Grow?

 Over 8 in 10 felt they had

grown as a person,
maintained over time
through 6 months.
Positive Changes
In Self
 8 in 10 felt they had
changed their outlook on
giving and receiving care,
maintained over through 6
months.
“I have worked in the medical field for over 10
years and was able to take care of my father’s
medical and physical needs. However, I didn’t
know I was neglecting him emotionally and
mentally until I took an Eden at Home workshop.
Eden at Home helped me give my father his
independence back.”

-- Noria Day, Care Partner

“Eden at Home has shed light on my dealings with

my father and grandmother. I was only thinking of
what I needed to do for them, rather than how they
were feeling. I never really understood how to deal
with dementia until I took this class.

-Tammy Hampton, Care Partner

 Core Content:
Care Partner Workshop
Session One: The Big Picture… (3 hours)
 Lays the foundation of EAH via Principles 1 & 2 of the Eden Alternative®
 Reveals impact of plagues on quality of life
 Explores impact of cultural perceptions of aging, disability, dementia & caregiving
 Describes the Human Habitat

Session Two: The Antidotes… (3 hours)

 Covers Principles 3, 4, & 5, which capture the antidotes to the three plagues
 Details concept of care partnership and identifies the care partner team
 Explores how the three plagues can impact everyone on the care partner team
 Shares practical tools for transcending them together

Session Three: Redefining Genuine Care… (3 hours)

 Focuses on the cultivation of meaningful experiences and interactions through Principles 6, 7 & 8
 Demonstrates vital communication skills that strengthen the team from within
 Defines the Elder care partner’s active role in decision making processes
 Clarifies how home health organizations can begin to “Edenize” and thus, better support teams

Session Four: Supporting Your Team’s Process… (3 hours)

 Covers the skills needed to respond to the joys and challenges of care partnering via Principles 9 & 10
 Highlights the crucial role of self-care, conflict resolution skills, and shared leadership as cornerstones
of the team’s shared success and continued growth and development.
 Trainer Certification Workshop
Workshops are arranged through host sites

Day 1: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Session I of Care Partner Workshop content 2010 Pricing Information
Pricing Information
Session II of Care Partner Workshop content $385.00
$385.00 - -Early
Early Bird
Bird Fee
Fee
w/ One-Hour Lunch
$360.00
$274.00 - -Group
Group Fee
Fee

Day 2: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. $435.00

$349.00 - -Regular
Regular Fee
Fee

Session III of Care Partner Workshop content $335.00 – Host Site Fee
Session IV of Care Partner Workshop content
w/ One-Hour Lunch

Day 3: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Facilitation Intensive: Skill-building, replication details and Q&A
w/ One-Hour Working Lunch (Team-Based Action Planning)
Hosting an Eden at Home
Trainer Certification Workshop
Host Sites Provide…
Training Venue
Designated Audio Visual Equipment
Lunch and refreshments
Commitment to send or recruit at
least 4 attendees from your
organization or elsewhere
Assistance in promoting the
training
Miscellaneous (flip charts, office
supplies, etc.)
Eden Provides…
On-site Certified EAH Educator
Travel expenses for Educator
All materials & shipping for them
Arrangement of CEUs through NAB
and NASW
Management of registration
process
Management of payments
Inquiry management
Workshop promotion
What Does It Mean For You?
For Home Health Organizations…

 Greater client satisfaction

 Better staff morale, sense of purpose = higher retention

 More positive collaboration potential between staff and

between staff and clientele

 Shared language and philosophy that empowered staff can

relate to personally and stand behind

 Unique market niche with person-directed care philosophy

What Does It Mean For You?
For Assisted Living and Independent Living…

 Greater resident satisfaction

 Better staff morale, sense of purpose = higher retention
 More positive collaboration potential between staff and between
staff and residents
 Shared language and philosophy that empowered staff and
residents can relate to personally and stand behind
 Unique market niche with person-directed care philosophy
 Opportunities for residents to become actively involved as
trainers, care partners or both
 Opportunities to bring public through your doors
What Does It Mean For You?
For Public Sector & Non-Profit Organizations…

 Greater satisfaction within target populations

 Better staff morale, sense of purpose = higher retention
 More positive collaboration potential between staff & those you
serve
 Creates an empowered public, better prepared to support the
mission of your organization
 Identifies your organization as one that promotes creative
grassroots solutions
 Puts your organization on the cutting edge of bringing person-
directed care via the Eden model to home and community- based
care
Other Eden Offerings
Eden’s Flagship Set of Workshops Designed to Transform the Culture of
Skilled Nursing and Other Long-Term Care Organizations…

Certified Eden Associate Training

Leadership Pathways to Culture Change
Open Hearts, Open Minds
GROWTH: Six Steps To Implementing Change

For more information on these offerings, go to:

www.edenalt.org and click on EVENTS

For workshop registration information, go to:

www.edenalt.org and click on EVENTS
Web Address:
The Eden Alternative:
www.edenalt.org
For Eden at Home pages, start at:
www.edenalt.org/eden-at-home/index.html

Correspondence:
Laura Beck
Eden at Home Program Director
Lbeck@edenalt.org
(607) 351-3082

Meredith Burrus
Education Coordinator
education@edenalt.org
(615) 785-1600
 Questions?
“I have worked in the medical field for over 10
years and was able to take care of my father’s
medical and physical needs. However, I didn’t
know I was neglecting him emotionally and
mentally until I took an Eden at Home workshop.
Eden at Home helped me give my father his
independence back.”
-- Noria Day, Care Partner
“Being a trainer for Eden at Home has
affected me more than any training I’ve
ever done. When I trained for Eden at
Home, I found that the Eden concepts
embodied what I, and my family,
instinctively tried to do for my mother.
The concepts resonate so deeply with me.”
-Judy Hoelzeman,
Certified EAH Trainer

“Eden at Home has shed light on my dealings with

my father and grandmother. I was only thinking
of what I needed to do for them, rather than how www.edenalt.org
they were feeling. I never really understood how
to deal with dementia until I took this class.
Lbeck@edenalt.org
-Tammy Hampton, Care Partner