Creative Ability Summer School, 16 & 17 July 2025

A fantastic opportunity to gain two days of activity-based experiential learning, facilitated by two expert South African VdTMoCA occupational therapists., flying in especially to share their extensive practice experience. Ideal for OTs trained in the VdTMoCA and who are ready to really get into the nitty gritty of application to activity-based OT practice as well as some of the more talking and education-based groupwork interventions. Two days of just doing - experiential learning. Come away with a bag of objects and materials to immediately start using in your practice and handouts on treatment principles for activities experienced during the 2 days. Heaven!!

Basic training in the VdTMoCA

Basic training for OTs and OT Support Workers Getting started with the essential foundation knowledge in the VdTMoCA

Improving a service - the Analytical Survey

Gain an understanding of the Analytical Survey Method and how it can enable you to make sense of: - why clients are not attending or engaged as well as you expect in a service, - the relation between clients' needs and problems, and mismatched service provision.

Fuller understanding

Be confident in your understanding of the levels and phases of creative ability. A South African expert in the VdTMoCA brings the levels alive with clear examples for working with the levels in practice, supported by very user-friendly infographics in the VdTMoCA Refresher. VdTMoCA Refresher PLUS additionally provides treatment activities examples.

Field specific focus: autism, personality, substance misuse

All online, recorded teaching. Applying the VdTMoCA to autistic children and adults. Applying the VdTMoCA to personality traits and disorders. Applying the VdTMoCA to understanding occupational therapy for individuals with substance use disorders. The influence of personality disorder on creative ability (short module). Applying the VdTMoCA to team intervention with people with an eating disorder.

Advanced practitioner knowledge

Realising Creative Ability is for advanced knowledge, including recordings of complex case-based teaching and in-practice case supervision.