Re: [pronut-hiv] training announcement (2)

["francis khadudu" <fkwere@yahoo.com>]

Thank you very much for the announcement for the Training on Positive Living  While I am interested in attending the Workshop Funding remains a formidable constraint Please assist where possible.
Meanwhile how can one get the notes if unable to attend?
Kind Regards
 Francis Were

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David Patient <david@empow.co.za> wrote:

Positive Living

Train the Trainer 

7-11 November 2005, South Africa

The Positive Living training has been developed based on the book,
Positive Health, a fully researched guide to immune enhancement in
resource poor settings. 

There are in excess of 12 million copies of Positive Health in
circulation in Southern Africa and the book is currently published in 17
languages, with more languages being added every year. Positive Living
has been rolled out in about 16 countries around the world for the likes
of UN, UNDP, USAID, UNICEF etc.

Due to great interest in Positive Living in the past few years, as an
empowerment tool for both the infected and affected, the author/trainers
have scheduled a Train the Trainer training 7-11 November, in Nelspruit,
South Africa. Due to our training schedules we are only able to run this
specific training once or twice a year.

The training is limited to only 30 people per training as it is intense
and demanding and we try to give as much personalized attention to each
delegate as possible. 

The tools, concepts and outcomes are simple and very user friendly. The
over-all theme is based around the question " What can I do on Monday
when I get back to my community?" Unlike most trainings and conferences,
we teach practical hands on tools that people can use in their everyday
life, regardless as to resources and they can implement the ideas and
concepts immediately. 

Between HIV diagnosis and the need for medical intervention, there can
be many years where the infected feels powerless against the virus, yet
Positive Health teaches people to sustain their immune function and
actuarial analysis of the research indicated clearly that Positive
Health can, and does, extend life, on average, for an additional 4.4
years, before the infected person needs to think about medical
intervention. The primary objective is empowering those living with HIV
to take an active role in their own well-being and enhancing their
immune systems to delay the onset of advanced HIV infection.

The Positive Health training covers the following areas:-

Food & water security :- 
Food security: 
Low-water and low-labor intensive methods for growing food for a family,
commonly referred to a 'Home garden' or 'Kitchen garden'. Key
components: Mulching and crop-rotation or inter-cropping.

Water security - clean water: 

Types of water; water filtration (how to make a filter); bleach;
boiling.

Nutritional security :-
Basic level (balanced diet):
The fundamental aspects of a balanced diet
Maintaining a clean stomach & preventing and dealing with diarrhoea,
using available resources
Energy foods - types, cautions
Immune-enhancing foods and other physical measures
Lymph-focused exercises
Warmth, acid/alkaline foods
Available foods containing specific immune-enhancing vitamins and
minerals (selenium, zinc, beta-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin B12). 
Medicinal plants and home remedies
Local plants with immune-enhancing properties; preparation and use
Basic 'tool-kit- for dealing with common non-life-threatening ailments
The dynamics of empowerment in resource-poor situations

Social context: 
Social norms and patterns that support HIV infection: Poverty, gender
inequity; family as future security; interactions between these factors
- the downward spiral; overview of infection patterns (geographic,
gender, age).

Keys to sustainable motivation in resource-poor situations:
Fear of loss versus desire to have - is fear an effective motivation?
Consequences.

Perception of time: In-time versus out-of-time perception.
Rescuing versus empowering consequences.
Why many behavior change efforts fail - analysis of motivation
components (Idea, emotion, action).

Stigma:
The effects of stigma on access to resources
The underlying function of stigma in resource-poor situations;
Strategies for reducing stigma

Motivation methods: 
Health motivations and behavior change
Creating a compelling future.
Choices

Community: You and Me
Personal empowerment
The focus of this module is the empowerment of the delegates. Specific
concepts and methods are selected for community empowerment, and
elaborated upon in subsequent modules, such as the PNI module. The focus
is upon the value of life. This module is process-driven (experiential
versus theoretical).

Coping styles (shadows) 
Integrity, accountability, agreements
truth / Truth
Be specific - what works, what doesn't? 

Being pro-active versus reactive (stop-look-correct-act) 
Identifying goals and purpose
Confronting fears, unfinished business; dealing with anger safely 
Rapport skills (establishing fundamental rapport with another person) 

Internal resource building 
Psychoneuroimmunology/ PNI (Mind-Body effects)

How thoughts and emotions translate into biophysical changes, and the
application of these connections for immune-enhancement:
Common characteristics of long-term survivors (cancer and/or HIV):
Realistic versus Denial 'positive attitude' (proactive versus reactive)
Strong sense of self-efficacy ("I can") versus victim identity
Expression of emotions and thoughts (safely)
Confronting fears (cortisol / t-cell effects)
Dialogue with HIV

Sense of purpose (future-orientation)
The role of religion/spirituality in immune function
Medical and non-medical treatment options & interactions (When there is
no doctor.)

Anti-retrovirals in context:
Types, nature of treatment, side effects
Infrastructure required, supportive services
Food security and ART treatment

Pediatric HIV/AIDS:
Incidence, illness patterns, treatments, basics of orphan care.
How/where medical and non-medical options can complement each other.

Who are we?

Neil M. Orr, has his Masters in Research Psychology in the area of
Psychoneuroimmunology and has 20 years of experience of working in HIV,
behavior change, transformation and nutritional immune enhancement. Orr
is a pioneer in the area of Psychoneuroimmunology.

David R. Patient, one of the longest documents HIV+ survivors in the
world (22+ years), with in excess of 20 years of working in HIV,
empowerment, change management and Psychoneuroimmunology. In 1994
Patient was awarded a Presidential acknowledgement for his global
contribution to HIV/AIDS.

Both trainers are published authors of several books on related subjects
and their CV's and related information are available upon request. A
Google.com search will also guide you to many of the articles the
trainers have written.

For those who are interested in attending this practical hands-on
training, please contact David Patient at david@empow.co.za
for further details around dates, costs,
logistics, etc. 

David R. Patient (M.H.;M.H.T.)

Empowerment Concepts

Ph. +27-83-226-9466 

Fax to email +27-086-674-7940

david@empow.co.za

www.empowermentconcepts.com

www.empow.co.za




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