[pronut-hiv] Positive Living Training, Training of Facilitators

["David Patient" <david@empow.co.za>]

Positive Living Training, Training of Facilitators
Nelspruit (South Africa), 24-28 April 2006
David Patient (MHT) & Neil Orr (MA, Psych) - Empowerment Concepts
For more information: david@empow.co.za
Tel: 083-226-9466 (country code +27, drop first ‘0’); 

Fax to email +27-(0)86-683-4585

Positive Living is a wellness-focused community empowerment
intervention, with several modules applicable to any community or
individual: Food security; Nutritional security; Immune-strengthening,
using foods and other physical means; Health motivation methods; Water
safety and purification; Preventing and dealing with stomach and
intestinal problems; Home remedies for common illnesses
(non-life-threatening); Mind-body (PNI) counselling methods for immune
enhancement; Application of above methods in a therapeutic support group
structure; Alternatively, in a workplace or community wellness
intervention.

Additional modules are more HIV-specific: Q&A regarding intermediate
level knowledge of HIV and AIDS; The history of pandemics, and how they
start, and how they end; Dealing with Wasting Syndrome; What are ARV’s
and when are they used?; Using nutrition to support ARV treatment;
Dealing with stigma; Qualities and strategies of long-term survivors.

The above modules have been successfully applied in various
interventions, large and small. In Mozambique, for example, a national
intervention (Vida Positiva /Positive Living) was rolled out over a
two-year period, under the auspices of the National AIDS Council. It
was assessed and evaluated, and found to be one of the most
cost-effective and sustainable interventions in that region’s history.
Training of trainers has occurred in Lesotho (CARE), Eritrea
(UNICEF/Dept.Health), various NGO’s and government agencies from
Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, South Africa, to
name a few. In 2006 the program will be rolled out in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Trainers: 

David Patient ( M.H.T.): One of the world’s longest-surviving people
living with HIV. Currently 23 years since diagnosis. 

He went on ARV’s 14 months ago. He has been actively involved
in HIV and AIDS - activism, death-and-dying therapist, trainer - for
almost 20 years. 

Neil Orr: Research Psychologist (MA, UCT). 

Author of
Positive Health, one of the key texts of Positive Living. He has been
involved in HIV/AIDS and cancer for 16 years, either as researcher,
trainer, or therapist. 

David and Neil have co-authored several books: 
□ Positive Health (4th Edition)
□ The Healer Inside You (Double Storey, Juta), which focuses upon
PNI (Psychoneuroimmunology) methods for chronic illnesses; 
□ Know About AIDS, an Q&A of the top 130 questions people ask
about HIV and AIDS (Juta Press); 
□ Secrets, a life skills book for young men and women (Juta
Press);
They recently released Positive Health DVD/VHS training set. For more
information on the training box set, please go to 

www.empowermentconcepts.com <http://www.empowermentconcepts.com/> 


They have also developed several discussion documents on stigma:

□ Stigma: Beliefs determine behaviour

□ Stigma and HIV/AIDS Intervention Structures

They have also developed several protocols and manuals, including:
□ Caregiver Issues - How to prevent burnout
□ Grief counselling

 Training limited to 20 delegates only. 

Course fees (R6760-00 ZAR inclusive of VAT/ USD $1186-00) are inclusive of
all accommodation [5 nights], all meals and refreshments, airport pick up
and drop off; the Positive Health training materials and course fees. 

Transportation to and from Nelspruit, South Africa are for the account of
the delegate/agency/sponsor.

They operate under the auspices of Empowerment Concepts, based in
Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, South Africa. 

For more information: david@empow.co.za

www.empowermentconcepts.com <http://www.empowermentconcepts.com/> 

www.empow.co.za <http://www.empow.co.za/> 

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

Empowerment Concepts

Ph. +27-(0)83-226-9466 

Fax to email +27-(0)86-683-4585

david@empow.co.za

www.empowermentconcepts.com

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