Education and Training
Films are invaluable for training and education – they
promote discussion, explore issues and stimulate emotions.
We have full compliant insurance and enhanced disclosure certificates
so can work with all ages.
A 3-day Training Package
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working on a three film series for Sam Warner, a high profile
Manchester based psychologist. The course is aimed at teaching
mental health professionals how to work with Survivors.
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A 1-year School Language Programme
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We are also working
with a Swiss publisher - Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Zurich
producing a 13-part series of films as part of a language
learning manual featuring schools in London and Wales, focusing
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A Teaching Tool
| Our work with Values
Into Action, in producing a 20-minute fiction involved working
closely with people with learning difficulties. The film was
scripted in a series of workshops and the film explains to
workers and Service Users the new Mental Capacity Act.
'Mission Possible: a DVD about the Mental Capacity Act made
by and for people with learning difficulties'
The film can be purchased by contacting:
Values into Action:
020 7729 5436
www.viauk.org
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Inspirational Filmworks
| In 2002 Oxleas
NHS Trust asked us to devise and deliver a film school to
fifteen of its mental health service users The result is Inspirational
Filmworks, an award winning User-led cooperative that has
so far produced four films screened on the Community Channel
and been commissioned by The Trust to produce staff training
films. This is an ongoing project, providing continuous support
and training. We will soon be launching www.inspired-stories.tv
- an internet television channel to broadcast Inspirational
Filmwork's and other User filmmaker's work. This is a social
enterprise model and will encourage other Users to be empowered
through making films. |
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Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities Parenting Programme
| In 2005, we worked
with the Race Equality Foundation and taught camera skills
to parents attending parenting courses in Manchester, Bradford,
Liverpool and London. The parents then filmed themselves during
the course. We collected all the material filmed and edited
two films, one a 20-minute film shown at REF's AGM in 2006
and another a 35 minute film for training.
We are presently engaged by REF on a youth film project.
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Quotes from clients
The result is beyond
what I would ever have expected and I am certain the film will
not only be very educational but also extremely interesting
to Swiss school students.
Mathias Grueter
Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Zurich |
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We chose Flexible
because we knew they would be totally reliable, very professional
and also very friendly and accommodating in terms of working
with people with learning difficulties. It all turned out brilliantly.
Everyone worked very hard and the DVD was fantastic
Catherine Bewley
Acting Director, Values Into Action |
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Flexible Films made
it their business to find out exactly what we wanted. When you
make a film for language teaching, you need a very exact text,
and they let us intervene much more than I think they would
normally do. They were also extremely good with the pupils –
put them at their ease, made them feel important, and coaxed
great performances out of them. And they took enormous care
to get exactly what they – and we – wanted.
John Clegg
Educational Materials Writer
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Flexible Films worked with us in
producing experiential films for our training package. They
had some exciting ways of using film to allow workshop participants
to connect with key emotional issues. They were insightful and
also came up with some innovative ideas. Participants have fed
back that the films are a crucial part of the training day.
Jan Holloway
Founder, Learning from Psychosis |
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