Professionals
Power for All builds partnerships with community organizations to provide occupational services to child care centers, preschools, schools, universities, Parks and Recreation Boards, not-for-profit and for profit organizations providing services to individuals with a variety of abilities. Special training sessions and experiences or consultation services can be provided upon request. We approach occupational therapy from a holistic, nature-based, experiential, collaborative and neurodiversity affirming lens.
Motor/Printing For The Classroom
Audience: Any classroom teachers that want
to learn and facilitate FM/printing centers in
their classrooms.
Audience: Staff that will facilitate these types
of groups, centers in the classroom or any
program. It is recommended that at least 2
staff members are trained to facilitate pullout groups in the school/program/classroom
so there is always a backup if one member of
staff is sick. Three is best.
Total: 3 hours recommended; a 1.5 hour can
be arranged but many foundational
concepts are missed!
Session 1 – 1.5 hours
Break 15 minutes!
Session 2 – 1.5 hour
Universal Design for Physical Literacy
How do we teach physical literacy?
What are the main aspects of teaching
Physical Literacy?
How do you set up programs and activities to
be accessible to a variety of abilities?
This workshop provides evidence-based
resources, activities, and principles to know
how to adapt activities for all lessons.
Total:
2 hrs.
Universal Design for Physical Activity and Recreation
An experiential workshop with some content where you will explore Universal Design (UD) principles and their application to physical activity and community recreation. Learn how UD can support children and youth achievement in community recreation. Discover practical and local resources
that will empower your practice as you enable
children and youth of diverse abilities to engage on a journey of lifelong health and wellness. Practitioners will explore a variety of communication and program adaptations. And experience a variety of practice labs with different sports and rec activities.
This is a 3-hour workshop. Participants come
away with games/activities planned for their
camps that are accessible to all.
Parent Education and Coaching
All our workshops are also available to be offered to parent groups and parent education or coaching workshops.
Just let us know your needs to work out a tailored option for your group or organization.
Interoception- the basis for Self-regulation skills
Practitioners will learn the variety of interventions associated with helping children/youth develop or reinforce their interoceptive awareness. When children/youth learn about the language of their own body sensations, those sensations become maps that can guide them to know what emotions they are feeling and at what intensity. Knowing these two things, facilitates then the management of intense emotions. This workshop is done with a variety of experiential activities so clinicians and caregivers feel prepared to implement these practices right away.
Safety and Support plans for children/youth who are experiencing meltdowns, shutdowns and burnout
Navigating through all these conditions in a
neurodiversity affirming and trauma sensitive
way. This workshop is for community
practitioners, caregivers, clinicians, etc. This
workshop is best done in a 3-hour session split into two sessions of 1.5 hours each.
Environments that are sensory aware and trauma sensitive while facilitating learning
This can be a 1.5-3-hour workshop. The
shortest, the more generally the topic is
discussed. Participants learn the aspects of
the environment that are worth scanning
so that information can be used to design
environments that are neurodiversity
affirming and allow students to develop
self-regulation. Emphasis is placed in
interventions that help children/youth to
show up as their most authentic selves and thrive!
Gross Motor Development
This is an extension of the FM development
workshop. Development in children starts
around the core (proximally) and extends to the fingers (distally). When we want to address FM skills, we need to begin by addressing gross motor skills first (running, jumping, balancing, crawling, rhythmic activities, bilateral coordination, body awareness, etc.).
Ideas on formats, activities, centers for classrooms/programs are taught in this workshop.
Length: 2 hours
Sensory Enhanced Learning Environment Design
Teachers and instructors can sign up for an
environment makeover deluxe package. This
means that they will obtain a kit to design their
classroom environment, seating tools, fidgets,
lighting, sound/acoustic tools, and many other
tools. Students who are outliers in these
classrooms will get a self-regulation profile for each kiddo so that school and future teachers, family, and community members can implement the same tools for students. Sensory aware and trauma sensitive evidence based strategies are learned to implement in the classroom.
There are four components of a deluxe package:
Professional Development for Staff The training is 2 sessions of 2 hours each.
Environment Scan and Makeover Teachers participating in classroom makeover will arrange to meet weekly or bi-weekly with OT. It is preferred that 2-3 sessions are arranged for the observation of the use of space, planning and designing of the new environment. It is recommended that 2 or 3 teachers in the organization meet with OT to design the environment.
Coaching with OT
OT can also offer 2 coaching sessions to roll out self-regulation programs in the classroom for teachers or instructors. A day or two to change the environment and arrange all new furniture and tools also needs to be arranged with
OT. Organization Budget and Purchasing
Organization should share with OT budget availability for the purchase of a variety of sensory tools to address needs for sensory and motor integration.
Nature Based Learning for Self-Regulation and Trauma Growth
An experiential workshop with some content where you will explore the main principles and their application to offering nature-based programming to children and youth. Learn how nature-based programming can support children and youth achievement in community. Discover practical and local resources that will empower your practice as you enable children and youth to connect to the Land and engage on a journey of lifelong health and wellness.
Workshop 2 hours, need outside space for
experiential labs.
Specialized Services
Screenings for whole classrooms or groups are also available upon request. Some of our most popular offerings are: Kindergarten screenings, Motor development screens for programs/groups, etc. Adaptive Nature based activities like paddling, hiking, snowshoeing, sensory enhanced yoga, etc.
Self-Regulation and Motor Development programs that take place 8-12 weeks specially designed for your organization and/or cohorts. Back Care and Ergonomics for Staff health and wellness.
Other ideas, just let us know and we will work with you to bring evidence-based strategies that will enrich what you offer to children and youth.
Self-Regulation, Emotional Literacy and Mental Health for caregivers and their children/youth
This workshop is best done as a series of 3
workshops. Each workshop is 1.5 hours to 2 hours
depending on the group. Community
practitioners, parents, caregivers and clinicians
are introduced to their own self-regulation
profiles so as they go through the process of
developing their own, they learn to develop it
for the children/youth they work with. We
then have a variety of activities that touch on
emotional literacy and mental health. A variety of
strategies to address these areas are reviewed
and experienced so participants can take all
these interventions away with them and implement
them into their practice. Other topics that we touch
upon are compliance and interoception.
Re-Imagining Routines and Transitions
Neurodiversity affirming, sensory aware
and trauma sensitive interventions are
reviewed to effectively promote selfregulation and also executive function
while guiding children/youth through
transitions. This workshop is best done in a 3
hour session split into two sessions of 1.5 hours
each.