Eikholt Conference 2024, on person-centred rehabilitation

Flyer for the Eikholt conference with text thank you for your visit.

The Eikholt conference is held in August each year and aims to disseminate relevant expertise related to visual and hearing impairment/deafblindness. This year, the conference was held on 21-22 August as a physical conference with the theme "See and hear me - about person-centred rehabilitation".

The aim was to reach out to everyone who works with and is interested in rehabilitation, and who meets people with impaired vision and hearing. The conference was attended by occupational therapists, vision therapists, audio therapists, audiographers, opticians, environmental therapists, psychologists, counsellors and others. The experience and feedback was that meeting physically is important and desirable also in the future.

The Eikholt conference in pictures

  • Susan Hart was this year's keynote speaker and spoke throughout the first day of the conference.

  • Susan Hart engaged the audience with both lectures and exercises

  • Susan Hart demonstrates with presenter Cathrine Timm Sundin what a handshake can signal.

  • During the breaks, there was time to talk to each other and spend time outdoors.

  • Good food is part of the conference experience.

  • Yngve Fritjof Kristiansen created atmosphere during dinner in the evening with guitar and song

  • Per Jostein Matre demonstrated how mastery beliefs can be worked with in practice.

  • Experience consultant Kirsti Fylling and Cathrine Timm Sundin, Senior Advisor at Eikholt in dialogue about what an advisor must see and do.

    She took the project as her starting point Boundless sporting joy.

  • Inga Britt Kjellevold Haugen talked about neural integration for better or worse.

  • The conference also provided an opportunity to test Speaksee, a product for transcribing speech

Watch recordings and download presentations

Here are recordings and presentations we can share. The recordings have speech, text and Norwegian sign language.

Goals and belief in mastery

Download Per Jostein Matre's presentation in the attached link and watch a recording of the presentation.

Goals and belief in mastery by Per Jostein Matre (PDF format)

In the recordings below, you can watch Per Jostein Matre present in two parts: When I realise that my own actions are useful and have an effect, I get up more easily in the face of setbacks - goals and self-confidence - two sides of the same coin.

Part 1:

Goals and belief in mastery - part 1 with Per Jostein Matre

Part 2:

Goals and belief in mastery - part 2 with Per Jostein Matre

Relationships and the development power of the meeting moment

Susan Hart's presentation was not recorded, but you can download the PDF in the attached link: Relationships and the development power of the meeting moment by Susan Hart (PDF format)

Boundless sports fun

The link takes you to a page where you can read about Project Boundless Sports Fun, watch videos and find guides and reports.

In the recording from the conference, Kirsti Fylling, in dialogue with Cathrine Timm Sundin, presents her role as an experience consultant in the Boundless Sports Joy project, what motivated her and what a consultant needs to see and hear.

See and hear me - about facilitating development and rehabilitation

Person-centred rehabilitation is a process that relies on partnership and dialogue between users and professionals to
create insight and mastery ( Eikholt-rapport-nr-01_20-Eikholtmodellen.pdf).

For many Eikholt users, having a combined visual and hearing impairment/deafblindness is perceived as having an invisible disability that their surroundings do not understand or take into account. Others experience being invisibilised and disregarded. The experience is one of not being seen and heard for who they are, because their surroundings are unsure how to deal with a person with a combined visual and hearing impairment/deafblindness.

In a rehabilitation process, it is particularly important that people with visual and hearing impairments/deafblindness feel seen and heard by their helpers, carers and professionals. This happens through good human encounters where safe relationships and trust are created.

This conference aimed to provide a refresher on how you can facilitate and use yourself to support another person's development and rehabilitation.

This year's conference was recognised with continuing education credits by Norwegian Association of Opticians (11 NOFEP points) and Norsk Physiotherapy Association (11 hours)

Download the programme in Word format

Download the programme as PDF

Programme Wednesday 21 August

*Subject to change

Programme Thursday 22 August

Flyer for the Eikholt conference with text thank you for your visit.

Get to know this year's lecturers

Susan Hart

Portrait photo of Susan Hart. She has short dark hair, a red jacket and is smiling with her mouth closed.

Susan Hart is a psychologist, PhD, specialist and supervisor in child psychology and a specialist in psychotherapy. She has been the director of a municipal family treatment centre and worked on a child psychiatric ward.

She is now an independent psychologist and has counselled various professional groups working with children, adults and families over the years. Susan holds many courses and lectures throughout Scandinavia. She is the author of a large number of books on neuroaffective developmental psychology, which have been translated into several languages. See more at www.neuroaffect.dk

Per Jostein Matre

Per Jostein Matre has 44 years of experience in mental health, child welfare and social work, as a therapist, counsellor and teacher. He has a master's degree in social work, clinical specialist training in cognitive behavioural therapy and is a trained counsellor.

Today, he leads the work on the competence programme and joint professional quality work in Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Addiction in Drammen Municipality. 

Inga-Britt Kjellevold Haugen

Portrait of Inga. Britt Kjellevold-Haugen. She has shoulder-length blonde hair.
Photo: Norwegian Association of the Blind

Inga-Britt Kjellevold Haugen is head of research at Norwegian Association of the Blind.

She was previously an associate professor at the Department of Optometry and Visual Science, now the University of Southeast Norway, where she was employed for 22 years. She also has a background as managing director and clinical director of private health clinics, as well as municipal health care manager.

Kirsti Filling

Kirsti Fylling works from home and is active in the deaf community. She has Usher syndrome type 1 and participates in activity weeks at Eikholt, where interpreting students do their practical training. An important and rewarding week. 

Kirsti has many interests, including painting and drawing, walking and being a football supporter. She was involved as an experience consultant in the exciting project "boundless sporting pleasure" .

Kari Jokstad

Portrait photo of Kari Jokstad. She is standing outdoors, with long blonde hair, an oval face and an open-mouthed smile. She is wearing small earrings, a grey jacket, a shirt and a sweater.

Kari Jokstad is head of research at Eikholt. She started her career as a physiotherapist in the field of rehabilitation and habilitation and has experience from both the specialist health service and the municipal health service.

Kari has been a manager at various levels in the municipal sector and in recent years she has worked on interdisciplinary projects in professional and service development. She holds a PhD in Person-Oriented Health Work from the University of Southeast Norway. Kari is particularly keen to ensure that the expertise of people with personal experience is included in service development and research.

Announcer

Cathrine Timm Sundin

Cathrine is a trained sign language interpreter and has worked as a freelancer for 17 years. She has a master's degree in rehabilitation and habilitation.. Her master's project "Participation in one's own rehabilitation process" is based on interviews with people with a combined visual and hearing impairment/deafblindness. 

At Eikholt, Cathrine is responsible for group and individual courses where communication with all the senses is a major part of the course content. She is particularly interested in the importance of carers and their knowledge of the combined sensory loss, networking and peer support. 

Cathrine is also responsible for interpreting practice at Eikholt, where all interpreters throughout Norway have a week's practice at Eikholt during their studies. 

Any questions?

If you have any questions about the conference, please contact Tanja Teigum by email: tanja.teigum@eikholt.no

Questions related to invoicing can be directed to Mona Borrmann by email: mona.borrmann@eikholt.no

Download our app

Eikholt has its own app with information. Download the app Go info screen in the App Store or Google Play.

Scan this QR code with the camera on your mobile phone to find the right app in AppStore or Google Play:

QR code to Google Play or App-store to get the Go info screen
  • Under Settings in the app, enter the sharing code Eikholt80
  • For information about the conference: Enter the sharing code Eikholt Conference under settings in the app.
  • Swipe left to switch between general information about Eikholt and the conference.

Read about last year's conference

To read about last year's Eikholt conference, click on the attached link:

Eikholt Conference 2023 - Eikholt

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