Person Centred Thinking
For people and families, this course can help you organise your thoughts, to think about what supports you want and how you want those supports
to work for you. When receiving support, it is not person centred planning that matters as much as the pervasive presence of person centred thinking.
If people who use services are to have positive control over their lives, if they are to have self directed lives within their own communities, then for those who are around the person, especially those who do the day-to-day support, it would be a great benefit to have Person Centred Thinking skills. Only a small percentage of people need to know how to write good person centred plans,however everyone involved needs to have good skills in using person centred thinking as well as the value and skills that underlie the planning.
There are a number of reasons for this. Teaching and supporting the use of person centred thinking skills will mean that:
- it is more likely that plans will be used and acted upon
- the lives of people who use services will improve
- there will be a number of ways to get plans started
- updating the plans will occur naturally, needing less effort and time
Every style of person centred planning requires a person centred way of thinking. It is made up of a set of thinking skills and values that result in seeing what is Important To the person and provides a way of acting on this and what is learned in the process.
What will people be able to do as a result of attending this course?
- Separate what is Important To someone from what is Important For them.
- Discover what is working and not working in a situation from different perspectives.
- Record how someone communicates and how we can communicate with them, via communication charts.
- Identify what are core responsibilities and where you can use creativity and judgment.
Mindfully record learning with tools such as a Learning Log and 4+1 Questions,
which help people focus on what has been learned and on future actions and solutions.
Parent to Parent offers a two day Person Centred Thinking course, facilitated by Family Facilitators who have been accredited by Helen Sanderson Associates.
Adaptations with permission from ‘The Learning Community for Person Centred Practices’ www.elpnet.net
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