Participants will receive access to an e-learning workshop. This provides background information on the communication and imaginative techniques which are taught on the one-day workshop. We strongly encourage participants to complete the e-learning in the 2 weeks prior to the course as it will form the theoretical basis for the interactive learning on the course.  

In the first session we’ll reinforce the GREAT LAURS - structured approach to communication and language techniques. In the second and third sessions we’ll learn techniques to manage anxiety and specific imaginative techniques to use during hospital procedures and in the peri-operative setting. Our goal is to provide useful understandings about communication which can assist with reducing a child's anxiety when facing procedural care, and simple practical skills you can begin to use at your next day caring for children.