BOOKINGS NOW CLOSED
Working with fatigue can be complex. However with a strategy to support assessment and intervention it can feel much clearer. Join this 2-day online course by booking your place below.
Fiona McKechnie and Beverly Knops have spent the majority of their professional lives (30+ years each!) working in this clinical area. They will share their experience in transferring scientific evidence into pragmatic, actionable strategies that clients can put into practice immediately.
You will leave with
more confidence
skills you can use immediately in your clinical practice
Relevant for professionals already working in specialist fatigue services and those working with persistent fatigue in other settings.
Secure your ticket now: £295 (Early bird just £250 available until March 15th)
- booking closes 48 hours before event
Key info:
Tuesday 16th April - Wednesday 17th April 2024 (9.30 until 3.30)
Tickets: £295 (Early bird of just £250 available until March 15th)
Online training: Link to join will be provided 48 hours before the event.
About your trainers
Beverly Knops
Executive Manager and Senior Occupational Therapist at Vitality360.
Beverly Completed her Occupational Therapy training in 1988. She has spent most of her career working with people experiencing persistent pain and fatigue. She worked in North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) for 29 years, starting in the Rheumatology services, then moving into the Specialist Pain and ME/CFS services. Beverly says that her main achievement at NBT was leading the patient volunteer programme. She trained and supervised patients with lived experience who are now involved in all aspects of the service, including co facilitating self-management courses. During this time she also spent a period of nine years working one day a week for the Bath Paediatric ME/CFS service, developing her knowledge and expertise in this age group. In 2012 Beverly started work as an associate therapist with Vitality360. In 2018 she was asked to take on the management of the company and following a difficult decision in 2021 to leave the NHS , she now leads this team full time. Beverly was a trustee for BACME for a period of 8 years where she was actively involved in the training stream, including supporting 4 conferences. She recently stood down from this position to join the Vocational Rehabilitation Association board where she is keen to bring her expertise in pain and fatigue but also learn more about how we can optimise the chance of people with persistent symptoms returning to and sustaining work.
Publications by Beverly:
Living with me and chronic fatigue-syndrome by Dr Gerald Coakley and Beverly Knops 2022 penguin Books
Fiona Mckechnie
Senior Occupational Therapist in Bristol ME service and associate therapist with Vitality360.
Particular interest in interdisciplinary approach and mindfulness based approach to fatigue. Extensive experience in employment issues for ME/CFS. Has worked in ME services since 1998 including in-patient service and severely affected at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford; The ME Centre in Essex; Action for ME and since 2007, Bristol ME/CFS service. Additional work in mindfulness for stress and anxiety in primary care and Mindfulness for cancer with Penny Brohn Centre and National Centre for Integrative medicine. Trainer and supervisor in ME/CFS and mindfulness based approaches. Trustee of British Association of Clinicians in ME.
Qualifications:
Post graduate diploma in OT and Teaching certificate and MSc in
Mindfulness Based approaches. ILM-5 coach and EMDR practitioner; trained mindfulness. ME/CFS and Post Viral Fatigue Training. 200hr yoga teacher. Registered as adhering to Good practice guidelines with British association of Mindfulness Based Approaches (BAMBA)
Publications:
Mindfulness based therapy for fatigue 2023 by Fiona McKechnie
Occupational Therapists guide to sleep
Involved in writing and editing BAME therapy Guide
Quoted in Financial Times: Why Long covid rehabilitation must be very slow.
Publishes on Substack