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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
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 QuestionsJack 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.
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Why 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. 
The focus of this work can include: 
Restorative Interventions Training: North East England 'I have just done a rough count of children who have been involved in 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 |
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.
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