Memory workshop

You’re Worried About Your Memory… Workshop.

The Roseland Festival is proud to host a pioneering event aimed at helping people worrying because they have noticed changes in their memory and cognitive abilities. Rather than seeing “dementia” as a chronic, untreatable, terminal illness, the approach focuses on the cognitive problems unique to each individual and how to develop calmer, more successful ways of dealing with them, both in terms of physical health and through psychological methods. The workshop seeks to make people aware of increasing cognitive difficulties, and they might be helped through their own efforts.

The participants should be experiencing some difficulties with their memory and cognitive processes which concern them. It is not aimed at interested bystanders. Participants should reckon on being able to follow the workshop’s three hours (with breaks!) and its novel ideas. There will be an opportunity to split up into small work groups. This is a “training” event and there will be no attempt to provide individual therapy.

We hope participants will leave with more optimism and with a framework and structure that allows them to handle their problems with more confidence.
The workshop is for people worried about their memories, so it is “for real”, not those who are only interested “intellectually”.

Workshop has five main components:
Why the existing model is wrong, degrading and damaging.
Clearing out your mindspace to maximise the ability to attend – working on traumas, bad relationships, grudges etc. that use up mindspace
Maximising cardio-vascular health, so that your brain maximises its oxygen and nutrient supply
Problem-solving approach: break down your “lousy memory” into tackleable problems
Maximising your giving and taking support from important others to help with 2-4.