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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.
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 Problems Differentiating? Start here..... Differentiating Instruction: 5 Easy Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms 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:
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.
See a detailed copy of a MAP for the future of Nottingham City's SEN Support Services
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)
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)
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.
CIRCLES OF ADULTS
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 |
We
actively work to include children and young people in problem
solving and planning processes.
