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Circles of Adults

Circles of Adults is an excellent approach to problem solving which we are able to use with your team on request.We can use it for real around the inclusion of challenging young people or other real issues of inclusion or we can model the approach plus offer training and coaching in carrying the processes out.

'wonderful process - every IEP should involve this instead of the meaningless targets'

Order the Circles of Adults book here

Click here to read more about the process

Click here for an article describing the development of the process

circle of adults graphicWhy not enlist us to take your team through 10 monthly sessions will model this in-depth problem solving process for use by teams working around the inclusion of a challenging individual. Using both process and graphic facilitation the group is guided through a set of key questions to reach a shared and deeper understanding of the young person's challenging behaviours, unmet emotional needs and to develop fresh strategies to support change. Participants will be expected to develop facilitation skills as well as to bring the stories of the most challenging young people they are involved with to the group sessions as the problem presenter in the Circles of Adults process.

Participants will receive direct feedback and supportive coaching as they learn the process skills involved. By the end of the 10 sessions participants will feel able to lead the process within their own work settings.


4 Questions

Jack Pearpoint and Marsha Forest designed The Four Questions exercise to help families, groups and organizations to get out of the trap of negative thinking.  For example, an organization kept asking the people they work with to tell them what was wrong, so they could improve.  But the people told them everything was really OK.  They knew some things weren’t right.  Jack and Marsha suggested they ask a new set of questions.

  1. What are we doing well right now?
  2. What could we be doing better?
  3. What could we be doing differently?
  4. What can we do now (within 48 hours) to start doing things better and/or differently?
Read more here>>>

soultion circleSolution Circles

A Solution Circle is a 30 minute creative Problem Solving Process for getting unstuck...Ideal for busy people! lt was designed by Marsha Forest & Jack Pearpoint.

This is a short and powerful tool. 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.

Click here to go to the Inclusion Press website to read more about Solution Circles.

Download our Solution Circles handout here.


teenage mumsVisioning & Building Consensus

We can join with you and your organisation to lead visioning, personal or organisational futures planning using wonderful tools such as MAPS or PATH.

'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.

Derek and Colin reflectThe focus of this work can include:

  • children with challenging behaviour
  • disabled children in transition
  • teams planning their future
  • schools visioning
  • community consultations
  • schools in special measures
  • Education Action Zone planning
  • and many more possibilities...

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

PATH graphic

Colin and Derek listened to the stories and dreams of a group of courageous Romany Gypsy mothers and young people in the West Midlands as they helped shape the future for a more inclusive Staffordshire secondary education.

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Restorative Solutions

Restorative Justice as aprocess is a great approach to 'making it right' instead of simply punishing offenders.Find out more about it from some of the successful work carried out in Nottingham

Do something. In the face of hatred, apathy will be interpreted as acceptance — by the haters, the public and, worse, the victim. Decency must be exercised, too. If it isn't, hate invariably persists.

Restorative Justice is an essential ingredient for the inclusive school and education system. Howard Zehr is one of the pioneers of this Restorative process. See him on video at YOUTube so is Desmond Tutu who can be seen on video here.

We have been supporting the development of Robin Tinker's work in Nottingham focused on secondary schools. Check out the links on this national UK site. Transforming Conflict is an excellent site developing restorative justice still further. There are at least 6 national UK projects currently being evaluated and highly likely to be followed by a national roll out of this initiative.Try Restorative School Documents for some very practical resources.

Peter Keane on video talking about: Peer Mediation , Restorative work with children and the Role of Support Services in South Tyneside

Restorative Interventions Training: North East England

'I have just done a rough count of children who have been involved in
Restorative Conferences since we completed our training with you and I am up to about 100 children.

We have also had about 12 parents involved in conferences. We are using the language so much it is second nature and there have been many more children who have benefited from this I'm sure! We are really pleased with how it is going and just this week me and Jane Cunningham (Head Teacher) have held a couple of really successful conferences where the children have been so on board and positive at the end of the process it has confirmed to us that we are doing the right thing!

We have had times when we doubt what we are doing because we are still struggling to get some staff on board but luckily we have been able to remind each other of our successes! We both agree that your training was very inspiring and would like to thank you for that! We will keep chipping away at everyone!'

Thanks again

Alison Holmes
Relationship Manager, Seaview Primary


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Our New Book!            

Restorative Solutions: Making it Work

Colin Newton and Helen Mahaffey

This is a practical book about how to implement Restorative interventions and approaches in schools. The book gives guiding ideas, principle, theory and values as well as direct scripts for those involved in direct contact with pupils, staff and parents. Restorative Solutions are about inclusion, transforming relationships and radical ways of impacting upon conflict and rule breaking behaviour. All schools in the UK and Support Service staff will want a copy. Parents will also find it an extremely valuable resource for bringing up their own children peacefully.

There is also a pack available featuring a great DVD created in Milton Keynes led by Tom McCready.

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Other Resources

Including Children with Autism...

...Start here with your problem solving with the work of Paula Kluth author of 'You're Gonna Love this Kid'

 


Problems Differentiating? Start here.....

Differentiating Instruction: 5 Easy Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms
© 2005 Paula Kluth


'Tools for Change'

From Inclusion Press, this 2 CD-ROM set is a summary of 15 years of learning, creating and collaborating between John O’Brien, Marsha Forest and Jack Pearpoint. The collection of Person Centred Strategies includes approximately 70 tools developed by the trio to assist you to deal with change in your family or organisation. Ready to print, there are 180 overheads by Jack Pearpoint. Thirty new video segments, four slide shows and 18 articles highlight many of the tools which are explained with text and graphics in hundreds of ‘screen’ pages. The CD’s are user friendly. You do it your way. The tools are generic and are ‘field tested’ by thousands of people across all five continents. To see sample images from the CDs visit Inclusion Press website.


Training and Books

Our Training

Person centred planning and support services for young people with complex needs

Educational Psychologists and person centred planning

Visioning in the early years

Multi agency working

Problem solving tools and techniques

School improvement planning

Live visioning and problem-solving

Books

Inclusive Solutions: Circles of Adults Pack

Inclusive Solutions: Circles of Friends Pack

Inclusive Solutions: Creating Circles of Friends

Inclusive Solutions: Restorative Solutions Pack

Inclusive Solutions: Solution Circle


A Little Book About Person Centred Planning by John O'Brien and Connie Lyle O'Brien

All My Life's a Circle: Using the tools Circles, MAPs & PATH by M Falvey, M Forest, J Pearpoint and R Rosenberg

Buliding New Worlds: A Sourcebook for Students with Disabilities in Transition from High School to Adult Life by Beth Mount & Connie Lyle O’Brien

Essential lifestyle planning: A handbook for facilitators. By Michael Smull, Helen Sanderson and Bill Allen

Families Leading Planning by Alison Short & Helen Sanderson with Margaret Cook

Implementing Person-Centered Planning, Voices of Experience

Life Building: Opening windows to change using Personal Futures Planning by Dr. Beth Mount