Crucial Converstations Training being considered for League of Functional Therapists

Over the last 30 years an innovative company call Vital Smarts has done research to find skills for exceptional communication. It has been applied in particular to Health Care in several settings. At Maine General Hospital they found that the training alone improved care.

Check out: Crucial Conversations® Training Improves Patient Safety at Maine Healthcare System http://www.vitalsmarts.com/userfiles/File/pdf/case_studies/mainegeneral_health.pdf

Just by taking this training their hospital improved in all the following ways.

They took the training across the board and they saw massive improvements.

What could you do if you were a better communicator? How would your health care facility improve? How would your relationships in your work and in your life improve? Who wouldn't be better if they were better able to hold conversations where emotions were strong?

These skills are skills for life. We are considering offering this course for practicing and non-practicing RFT and RFTAs, and our supporter members. This may be in mid 2010 depending on interest. To let you know, the course could cost $995 is you were just taking this training. However; since you are members or considering membership we should be able to significantly reduce that price. We are in dialogue about it currently with Vital Smarts team.

We are very excited about the prospect of offering these life changing lessons to our membership. Let us know what you think about it.

Please check out http://www.vitalsmarts.com/ and http://www.vitalsmarts.com/crucialconversationstraining.aspx?id=frombanner to get more information on these exciting courses.

Yours,

Ed Kaine, OTR, RFT

President of the American League of Functional Therapists

RegisteredFunctionalTherapist@gmail.com

Functional Therapy... the Next Generation of Occupational Therapy!