Seminars and Continuing Education Courses
Past Seminars
 January 18, 2007 – San Francisco
Naomi Feil in the West Coast, sponsored by Pacific Institute and the AgeSong Senior Communities
Naomi Feil, MS,ASW
6 CEUs, MCEP-BBS-RCFE/CCL
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Location:
Laguna Grove Care,
624 Laguna Street - between Ivy and Grove Streets
San Francisco, CA 94102.
Register online
 
or call 415-861-3455 x 4
As part of a unique series with Naomi Feil in the West Coast, join Pacific Institute and the AgeSong Senior Communities to explore a different approach to Dementia and Alzheimer.
It is the prevalent view that our physical and psychological symptoms represent illnesses. Understood as illnesses we ask for professional help in the 'removal' of these symptoms. Another attitude views symptoms as meaningful, as important expressions of the individual.
Naomi Feil says: Very old people change behaviors, not only because of physical deterioration but because they want to return to the past to wrap up loose ends. They need someone to listen to them with empathy in order to complete this final Resolution of life before they die. If no one listens, the very old withdraw. Validation practitioners are non-judgmental but caring and open to the feelings that are expressed.
How would such a change in attitude and perspective influence the way we 'treat' people with dementia and Alzheimer`s?
Approved by MCEP-BBS - meet the mandatory requirements for aging courses and approved for RCFE/CCL administrators
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Naomi Feil, M.S., A.C.S.W
Naomi Feil is the developer of Validation. She was born in Munich in 1932, and grew up in the Montefiore Home for the Aged in Cleveland Ohio, where her father was the administrator and her mother, the head of the Social Service Department. After graduating with a Masters degree in Social Work from Columbia University in New York, she began working with the elderly. Between 1963 and 1980 Mrs Feil developed Validation as a response to her dissatisfaction with traditional methods of working with the severely disoriented old-old people who were her clients. In 1982 she published her first book, Validation: The Feil Method, which was revised in 1992. Her second book, The Validation Breakthrough, was published in 1993. Feil and her husband have made many films and videos about aging and Validation.
Feil is the Executive Director of the Validation Training Institute (VTI) and a popular speaker in North America and Europe. Since 1989 she has toured Europe 3 times a year offering workshops in Validation to participants in Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, France, Belgium, Italy, Great Britain, and Austria. Her books have been translated into French, Dutch, German, Italian, Finnish, Danish, and Swedish.
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