Workshops & events
Learning Events Occupational therapy is a diverse profession with endless learning opportunities. We list both SAOT-sponsored and non-sponsored educational opportunities and events here. Do you have ideas for workshops? Are you a trained facilitator? We want to hear from you! Email your ideas to education@saot.ca.
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SAOT accepts postings from external providers that are of interest to occupational therapists in Alberta. Post your course, workshop or event for $95 plus applicable GST. Submit your event.
Until now, choices were limited if you wanted to learn how to use kinesiology tape. You had to read a book or attend an expensive class that locked you into one way of applying tape. Not anymore. FMT Basic Kinesiology Taping Certification FMT Basic introduces the evidence based approach to taping for pain*, enhancing fluid dynamics, posture, nerve entrapment and scars. FMT Basic is an evidence-informed kinesiology taping course that redefines our understanding of the effects of elastic therapeutic taping… Until now, choices were limited if you wanted to learn how to use kinesiology tape. You had to read a book or attend an expensive class that locked you into one way of applying tape. Not anymore. FMT Basic Kinesiology Taping Certification FMT Basic introduces the evidence based approach to taping for pain*, enhancing fluid dynamics, posture, nerve entrapment and scars. FMT Basic is an evidence-informed kinesiology taping course that redefines our understanding of the effects of elastic therapeutic taping… Join us for the SAOT AGM 2020. 6:15 – Registration 6:30 – AGM and Awards Presentations 7:15 – Guest Speaker Jon Jon Rivero 8:00 – Networking wine and cheese Keynote Speaker, Jon Jon Rivero presents: AWETHENTRICITY: The Awesome Art of Owning Your Authenticity & Influencing Others In this energizing keynote, AWETHENTRICITY: The Awesome Art of Owning Your Authenticity & Influencing Others, educators reconnect with their authentic awesome selves so that they can promote proactive mental health awareness and meaningfully influence… This three-day workshop will provide an integrated theoretical connection about the neurological interplay between attachment, developmental trauma and sensory processing issues. Participants will develop an understanding of the use of relational attunement as a regulatory influence that supports and stabilizes the arousal and sensory processing systems. This workshop will uniquely blend the integration of attunement skills with sensory processing intervention. Therapists, teachers, and parents will learn how to put these two distinct interventions together as a mechanism for the development… Presented by: Kim Barthel, BMR, OTR, C/NDT A presentation of pioneering research in the neurobiology of autism with treatment strategies supporting people who work with individuals on the Autism Spectrum. Topics explored will include epigenetics, the immune system, sensory contributions, functional movement, complex behaviour and co-regulation. Whether you are an educator, therapist of any kind, psychologist, physician, caregiver or keen parent, you will develop a deeper understanding of the brain-body science of ASD, and develop evidence-informed treatment and holistic therapy…
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November 2019
FMT BASIC & PERFORMANCE – CALGARY, AB – NOVEMBER, 23-24
January 2020
FMT BASIC & PERFORMANCE -EDMONTON, AB- JANUARY 11-12
SAOT Annual General Meeting 2020
February 2020
Psycho-Sensory Processing Intervention
March 2020
Decoding Autism
