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Circles
of Adults (Summary web page) and Solution
Circles are two excellent
approaches to problem solving which we are able to use with
your team on request.We can use these for real around the inclusion of challenging young people or other real issues of inclusion. We can model the approaches plus offer training and coaching in carrying the processes out.
60 page full colour practical guide!
Solution Circles (Small Word doc handout)
: 30 minute Creative Problem Solving Process for getting unstuck...Ideal
for busy people!
Solution
Circles ( Web link showing Graphic and process) are a Creative Problem Solving Tool designed by Marsha
Forest & Jack Pearpoint (Inclusion Press)
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.
Teaching Assistants: Some radical new ideas from Mike Giangreco of Vermont University
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
October 2003 | Volume 61 | Number 2
Teaching All Students Pages 50-53
Working with Paraprofessionals
To make the most of paraprofessional support, teachers must
change their role from gracious host to engaged teaching
partner: Michael F. Giangreco
Problems Differentiating? Start here.....
Differentiating Instruction: 5 Easy Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms
© 2005 Paula Kluth
Circles of Adults (full
details)
We recently worked with a team of American teachers and community
leaders at the TASH conference in Boston, December, 2002 and
received this feedback about the Circle of Adults process:
- Love the process, methodical and artistic
- like bringing clinical and educational together - seeing
the child as a whole person over time
- completeness of it, quickly pulled into it - helpful
- wish I could have done this with a student I had felt very
alone in trying to support
- child's perspective - loved it
- 'tricks' don't know what elements might pops out e.g. fly
on the wall questions - make a change from the usual script
e.g. desert island - changes things - wonderful
- wonderful process - every IEP should involve this instead
of the meaningless targets
Including Children with Autism? Start here with your problem solving with the work of Paula Kluth author of 'You're Gonna Love this Kid'

Visioning and 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

In Sandwell we created a MAP with young people and workers to support the development of a Teenage Pregnancy Strategy in the area. Read the full report (short pdf download).
... making use of colourful graphic techniques.

The focus of this work can include:
- children with challenging behaviour
- disabled children in transition
- teams planning their future
- schools visioning
- community consultaions or developments
See a detailed copy of a
MAP
for the future of Nottingham City's SEN Support Services

- schools in special measures
- Education Action Zone planning
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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.

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 (Parent/carer
and pupil Guides to RJ)
'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

CIRCLES OF ADULTS
Teams Reflecting and Problem Solving Around
Emotional Needs and Challenging Behaviour

Why not enlist us to take your team through 10 monthly sessions will model an 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. Read more about Circles of Adults |