Beyond its planned outcomes, the Learning Exchange generated a wide range of additional learning and benefits. The shared activities inspired new ideas that could take place in their own Centres. Activities including fairground fun, planetarium visits, gin or soda tasting, sound baths, and trips to Samye Ling Buddhist Temple highlighted the diversity of programming possible and reinforced that activities can be engaging, locally relevant, and member-led. Members said that seeing these creative approaches in action encouraged them to adapt similar activities for their own communities, Since attending, members from Dementia Friendly Dunblane have introduced their Meeting Centre to the therapeutic experience of Sound Baths whilst others learned that for some people the experience felt uncomfortable and reinforced as a learning point how options are critical to developing sessions and activities in a Meeting Centre and quiet spaces to relax is feeling a sensory overload.
Learning Outcomes
- Peer to Peer Learning, support and strengthened network
- Practice based insights and Inspiration
- Operational and Strategic Development