Experiencing Dementia – 1-Day Training Course (in person)

Since 2011 Re-Live have been delivering powerful, experiential training for anyone supporting people living with dementia, including health and social care professionals, volunteers, community connectors, and public health teams. Our training deepens understanding and equips participants to provide compassionate, person-centred support.

Who is this for?

This training is for anyone working alongside people living with dementia—whether in care settings, community spaces, or public health initiatives. It offers insight into the emotional and psychological experience of dementia and practical ways to respond with understanding and empathy.

What to Expect

This interactive, immersive training will:

Offer experiential exercises that bring the lived experience of dementia to life.
Invite participants to explore: What if it was me? How would I feel? What would I need?
Build understanding and empathy between people living with dementia, their families, and support networks.
Support participants in reflecting on challenging situations and developing compassionate responses.

Course Details

Time: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Numbers: up to 20 participants
Cost: Please get in touch. We would like to support you.

Includes: Two Re-Live facilitators, travel, insurance, and materials.
Excludes: Venue hire and accommodation for multi-day training.

Why Train with re-live?

Our experiential approach equips attendees with practical skills, knowledge, and the confidence to apply them in real-world settings. Research shows that experiential training leads to deeper attitude shifts and greater compassion than traditional methods (Sheard, 2009; Ballard et al., 2001).

Re-Live have trained over 5,000 professionals and community members. Our training is shaped by research conducted in the UK, USA, and Japan.

This training aligns with key dementia care frameworks in Wales, including:

All Wales Dementia Care Pathway of Standards (Public Health Wales, Welsh Government, 2022-2024)
Dementia Action Plan for Wales (Welsh Government, 2018-22)
Good Work – A Dementia Learning and Development Framework for Wales (Public Health Wales, Social Care Wales, NHS, Welsh Government, 2016)
The Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014

What Participants Say

"The best training I’ve ever done. This will stay with me always." – Care Worker, Rhyl

"As a physician caring for dementia patients for over two decades, I strongly recommend this training. An incredible experience." – Professor of Neurology, UCSF

"No PowerPoint! Engaging, insightful, and practical." – Reablement Team Manager, Pembrokeshire

Book Your Training

For enquiries, availability, or additional needs contact: info@re-live.org.uk

Experiencing Dementia (Online Training)

Re-Live also deliver Experiencing Dementia as an online training course via Zoom aimed at health and social care professionals who want to gain knowledge and insight into the experience of a person living with dementia.

Learning Outcomes:

· Guide trainees through a series of live online experiential exercises which provide a powerful insight into the experience of dementia

· Invite trainees to engage with the emotional and psychological experience of dementia, exploring the questions "What if it was me living with dementia, how would I feel, what would I need?"

· Develop compassionate perspectives and a greater understanding between staff, people living with dementia and family members, especially during the challenges of Covid-19 restricitions.

Re-Live will:

· provide a secure link with a unique password for each training course

· Provide an online space, including breakout rooms, for trainees to share practice and reflect on experiences

· refrain from recording training courses

· ensure a screen break half way through the training course

Feedback from recent training courses via Zoom:

“I'd like to take this opportunity to say that the course was extremely beneficial, and was conducted extremely well on Zoom. The person-centered approach, and connecting the key points to attendees through personal experience, made the content all the more meaningful. Thank you for the experience, and I am looking forward to any future training’ - Care Home Manager (Nov 2020)

“This was my most positive experience of Zoom to date as a participant. I felt safe, supported and connected to the others in the training” - Project Lead, Denbighshire Leisure (July 2020)

“An incredible afternoon of training via Zoom. Expert facilitation from Re-Live” - Dr James Kolasinski, Lead for Research Output at Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (July 2020)

“I really welcomed all of the elements woven through the course which explored and demonstrated active rather than passive participant involvement” - Arts in Health Practitioner (June 2020)

“There were equal opportunities for every participant to have a voice which I find often in training days or recently, Zoom meetings very difficult to do so” - Community Connector (June 2020)