Tacpac is coming to Ireland

Tacpac is coming to Ireland!

We are delighted to tell you that we are coming to Ireland in October 2018 to do Tacpac Training in Sensory Alignment.

For those who have recently started using Tacpac, this is a unique offer for you to experience the Essentials Training. The course is being run at the following locations:

Cork, 15th October

Limerick, 16th October

Dublin, 18th October

Belfast, 22nd october

All of the training days run from 9:00am to 3.30pm.

For those who we have met in trainings before, we’d love to see you again with our Advanced Training Day on the 19th October in Dublin. The course runs from 9:00am to 3:30pm.

The course is both tremendously rewarding and fun as you meet fellow Tackpackers all with their own stories and experiences to share. To find out more about Tacpac trainings, click here.

Both courses cost £150 per person or £125 each if you are a group of five or more.

Essentials Training Day

Course Content

Our sensory system and the role of touch
Understanding the importance of the basic beat
experiencing the touch and music in an activity, using objects
use of thematic material
how the limbic system affects our senses
The central role of music in Tacpac
Sensory communication
Sensory overload

Cost per person £150

After the day you will be able to:

Understand the theory behind Tacpac
Learn to internalise and effectively deliver the Tacpac activities
Experience ‘sensory overload’ for yourself
Heighten awareness of your own senses (we have more than 5)
Discover how to work effectively with touch
Build skills in multi-sensory interaction (touch–sight–movement–sound)
Synchronise your sense of touch with your sense of music
Meet other professionals in the field, parents, and carers
Receive a Tacpac CPD Certificate in Sensory Alignment.

Essentials Training Day Register Interest

Training Feedback Essential - Face to Face

Name *

Date of Training

Please comment overall on today’s training. It would be very helpful for us to know what worked and what didn’t work. What did you like, what didn’t you like.

What was the most useful or surprising aspect of the course?

Was the concept of the patterning of the music clearly explained?

Was the concept of matching the patterns of the music to the touch clearly explained?

Was the concept of body patterning clearly explained?

Do you feel you are equipped to start using TACPAC after this course?

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Comment and name/place of work

Who would you recommend this training to?

If there is someone else you think might benefit from this training, please let us know, plus a contact person there.

Was this course what you expected? *

How did you hear about TACPAC? *

I found the training was delivered well and matched my school’s cohort very well. It was thought provoking and gave me many ideas on how this can be rolled out and introduced. It also enabled me to get a clearer idea around the intent and the purpose of TAC PAC as a communication strategy and how this can be explained to outside agencies such as ofsted.

Cheryl Louis, Treehouse School

I thoroughly enjoyed the whole training day from start to finish. Vanessa was an amazing instructor and pitched the course well with both theory and practical. She was extremely helpful in answering questions relating to my context and I can’t thank her enough. I feel confident in taking this intervention forward in my class of complex P1 learners.

Charlotte Johnstone Teacher Park School

It was really informative. I would encourage parents and other professional to go through Tac Pac training. Found it really innovative. Most surprising fact that it can be done with household simple stuff and doesn’t need to be expensive, very much handy and easy to use for parents/other caregiver and professionals.

Online Training Delegate,

The learning of the importance of the beat and uncovering some of the myths that we had previously been doing in our school so now they can be corrected. I feel I can relay the appropriate content learnt to other staff within my setting now.

Eimear Corrigan, Teacher,, Palmerstone School, Liverpool

I have been working with children with special needs for the past seven years. I have been amazed at the transformation in children who have been exposed to Tacpac. As there are no trainers that I know of in the Perth area, I am interested in becoming a trainer to enable more children to reap the benefits of this wonderful program.

SEN teacher

Hilary, You have given much joy to many with your creation of Tacpac. You really have made a difference to the lives of many children and their families.

Sue Murray,BLENNZ School, New Zealand

Well delivered. I like that even though this training was virtual it still felt very interactive and a safe place to ask questions and have discussions. I do feel like I have the knowledge and skills to begin TACPAC ‘properly’ now (or at least after a few more practice sessions on my niece). Thank you very much.

Emily Parham, Speech & Language Therapist, OXLEAS

The activities were brilliant for being able to practise the movements to the music in a supportive environment. There was no part of the course that I didn’t enjoy and from which I didn’t learn. Although I have used TACPAC before, I hadn’t considered the importance of unknown music without any connotations attached to it for the receiver. This now makes perfect sense and was a revelation!

Ashley Chambers, Portage Practitioner, Kent

Great working with you all

Dom Knight, Oxfordshire Web Services

I messaged my manager during the break to tell her how amazing the training course is; I didn’t expect it to go into as much detail as it did. I liked how the course went into detail about the function of the Limbic System in relation to behaviour and response. I now want to do more research into the physiological aspects of behaviour in Autism to work on positive behaviour support within our homes

Tracey Hamilton, Homes Manager , Albrighton Care