TOPIC: Tips for active listening and reducing social isolation
PRESENTER: Marissa Norton, Executive Director, Vent Over Tea
This welcoming, easy-to-follow workshop introduces simple
active listening tools that help strengthen relationships and
reduce social isolation among seniors across Quebec.
Participants will learn practical ways to create meaningful
conversations, build connections in everyday interactions,
and support one another with empathy.
OBJECTIVES:
- Increase participants’ understanding of how active
listening skills can reduce social isolation and strengthen
emotional well-being. - Equip seniors with practical communication tools—such as
empathy, open-ended questions, and paraphrasing—that
support healthier, more meaningful connections in their
daily lives. - Provide tips for breaking isolation, and finding connection
in the smallest of interactions.
Register for the Zoom link.
About SHARP
SHARP provides tools and resources to support English-speaking older adults to age and live where they choose. SHARP is short for “Services for Healthy Aging in the Right Place.”
Questions?
For more information, please contact Claire Quenville by email cquenville@jhpartners.net or by phone: 418-527-2533
SHARP is a CHSSN initiative funded through Health Canada’s Official Languages Health Contribution Program 2023-’28
