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

["Celina D'Costa" <celina@pciindia.org>]

Dear Mr. David,

We are really interested to attend your training of Trainers program but due to the lack of financial resources, it is not possible for us Indians to participate in your program.  If you are having resources available, can you come down to India  and we can take care of the logistics?

We are planning for a Indian Activist meeting for National Treatment
advocacy in September, if you are coming, we can have the program after our
meeting.

Awaiting a positive response,

Celina


----- "David Patient"wrote:


> Positive Living Training
>
> 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
> <mailto:drp@mweb.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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