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Training

people planningWe design and deliver tailored training courses, for Social Service Departments, Health Trusts, small and large voluntary sector providers, community groups, advocacy and pressure groups on a range of different projects. Further down the page are examples of some of these courses.

University Courses
Andy teachingIn 2002 Pat and Andy helped design a new Higher Education Certificate in the Person-Centred Approach. This collaboration with the ALTRUM network and Queen Margaret University received European Funding in 2003 and over 300 students have enrolled since then. This award winning course developed by Diversity Matters in partnership with Terry Daly and Kate Munro and now managed by The Thistle Foundation is a winner of a National Training Award for changing workplace practice and an ESF award for best long-life learning project it has also been awarded SSSC accreditation.

Accredited Trainers
We are accredited Essential Lifestyle Planning facilitators and trainers. We admire Michael Smull's continuing impact on person-centred approaches (www.elpnet.net) and include his approaches in much of our work.

people enjoying trainingWe also continue to maintain our learning about person centred planning by keeping up to date with the work of Jack Pearpoint, Marsha Forrest (www.inclusion.com) and John O'Brien (http://soeweb.syr.edu/thechp/rsapub.htm) who are the creators of the MAP and PATH processes.

We keep exploring and developing our facilitation skills in person-centred planning through direct work with people who use services and their families. All of our work in facilitation and training is enhanced by our process work studies.

Here are some example training courses: scroll down this table for more information

Person Centred Planning Courses

Usually lasting 6 days and split into 2 or 3 blocks of work, these courses cover three of the most commonly used planning processes: Essential Lifestyle Planning, MAPS and PATH. We explore communication skills and core person-centred values elements in addition to practical training on how to use the methods. Both Pat and Andy are accredited Essential Lifestyle Planning Trainers and have over 15 years experience as trainers in Maps and Path Facilitation. Like all our courses we can tailor the delivery and content to meet the needs of your organisation or service.

Advanced Facilitation in Person Centred Planning

A three day practical (and sometimes residential) course to enhance facilitation skills - participants will have previously undertaken training and practice in person centred approaches (15 -25 participants).

Managing Person Centred Services

We apply a structured evaluation and reflective process to help managers create a framework to identify some of the key components of person-centredness e.g. Uniqueness, Right Relationship, Service Relevance and Coherency and ways of supporting their development.

Community Building & Sustaining Connections

A three day introductory courses for participants who are interested in supporting people to increase community presence and connection &/or three day advanced workshops for those that are already doing it every day.

Serve You Right
A five day course run in a three day and a two day block on using person centred planning tools and techniques to work with people who have severe reputations or challenging behaviour.

Learning to Listen

A three day course on developing communication skills, especially for those working with people who have severe reputations (and named after the book by Herb Lovett) this course helps everyone think about roles, rank and systems and their own place in the universal process of hearing and being heard.

Right Relationships

A course to help participants explore the nature of positive support relationships and person-centred thinking, particularly aimed at engaging diverse groups of people (e.g. People with learning disability labels, family members and support staff working together).

Designing individualised services

A course for people interested in the IN-CONTROL ideas or in the possibility of re-organising group services or starting new individual services.

Creative ways to approach change

Developing a range of tools and techniques which help alter the habits and routine ways we have of coping with change - we also look at the mythical elements that shape any journey of change.

Working with Risk

An antidote to risk aversion this short two day, or longer four day workshop that familiarises people with pro-active person-centred approaches to help people live a good and full life with a balance of risk and security.

Intractable Problems Sessions

These are essions in which teams or small groups of people are facilitated to work together around areas where they feel have a problem and feel stuck or where there is conflict within a team, organisation or family.

 

 

 
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