Person Centered Planning

Beth Mount : Capacity Works

Training on Person Centered Planning can be provided as introductory workshops or full days or much more in depth over a number of sessions.

Books on Person Centered Planning

We can join with you and your organisation to lead visioning, personal or organisational futures planning using wonderful tools such as MAPS or PATH around an individual person or a team searching for consensus and direction.

 

Person centred planning is a way of organising around one person to define and create a better future (Pete Richie, 2002)

What exactly is person centred planning?

Inclusive Solutions can model and coach the use of a range of person centered planning processes with children, young people and adults, in collaboration with families and friends.We have and still are working with a number of education teams developing skills in the use of MAPS and PATH. These tools can replace review and transitional planning processes for many young people with high support needs and can break in to destructive cycles of blame and exclusion around young people labelled as 'trouble'.

Connie Lyle O'Brien and John O'Brien's The Origins of Person -Centered Planning
A Community of Practice Perspective is well worth reading.

Inclusive Solutions can join with you and your organisation to lead visioning, personal or organisational futures planning using MAPS

 

or PATH person centred tools.

making use of colourful graphic techniques and high levels of participation.Check out our Books and Video section for training materials.

The focus of this work can include:

• children with challenging behaviour
• children with disabilities in transition
• teams planning their future
• schools visioning
• councillors clarifying their vison
• LEA Teams planning ahead

See a detailed copy of a

MAP for the future of Nottingham City's SEN Support Services

that we facilitated

 

 

• schools in special measures
• Education Action Zone planning
• and many more possibilities...
  
  
  

PATH - Solution Circles - MAPS - Circles of Adults and many

more problem solving and planning approaches can be

brought to your organisation to build futures.

PATH & MAPS are creative planning tools that utilize Graphic Facilitaion to collect information and develop positive future plans. MAPS focuses on gathering information for planning - based on the Story (history) of a person or organization. PATH goes directly to the future and implements backwards planning to create a step by step path to a desirable future. (Inclusion Press, 2000)

We actively work to include children and young people in problem solving and planning processes.

Pictures, key words, or graphics help support our work

We have been busy this year facilitating PATHs and MAPs around the UK, for all kinds of reasons.

 

Tell me more about what Person Centred Planning really is?

Getting Practical...

In the UK we need to find much more person centred approaches to annual reviews, transition reviews, and all the rest! Our planning too needs to reflect our wish to respectfully involve the student in meaningful ways. Our Individual Education Planning (IEPs) could be so much more person centred and child friendly, both in process and actual plan produced. Check out this completely different but very powerful Individual Education Plan:

All About me. This excellent booklet has been written by a young person from Scotland with help from those who know him best, starting with his family.

Essential Lifestyle planning has informed many of the questions posed in Stephen's book. Radically change your IEP and review work today!!

Another fine example was created by Joe and his family and friends just before secondary transfer. It has already proved invaluable.

‘All about Joe'

 

How do you compile a book like this? Joe's family tell us how.....

Jack Pearpoint nd some very inclusive associates have created a wonderful Person Centred CD 'Tools for Change' which covers a whole range of creative tools.

Circles of Adults (Click for Summary) and Solution Circles are two excellent approaches to person centred planning and problem solving which we are able to use with your team on request.

Solution Circles (Small Word doc handout) : 30 minute Creative Problem Solving Process for getting unstuck...Ideal for busy people!

Solution Circles ( Web link showing Grpahic and process) are a Creative Problem Solving Tool designed by Marsha Forest & Jack Pearpoint

This is a short and powerful tool that takes no more than a half hour. It is effective in getting "unstuck" from a problem in life or work. Solution Circles are tools of "community capacity". It assumes and demonstrates that nearby people - in any community or work place have the capacity to help - if asked. It requires a person to ASK - not an easy thing in our culture of privacy and "do it alone". This tool puts all the values we espouse into practice and demonstrates that TOGETHER WE'RE BETTER

Both processes can be learned and are powerful ways of supporting inclusion.

 

'Superb,moving and inspiring keynote presentation'
(SEN conference feedback, Southwark LEA, 2003)

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