Endeavour for Excellence

1. Endeavour for Excellence Week Two Day 1

2. Mon 20 May - Agenda • Review and explore our work to date • What has been learnt about our newly formed partnerships with people? • What has been learnt from engaging in the process of discovery? • Preparation for next steps • Best practice strategies for individualisedplanning

3. Tues 21 May & Wed 22 May - Agenda • Presentation of Distinctive Identity Portraits • 25 – 30 minute presentations by primary supporters or teams • Home, Relationships, and Roles • Desired Change • Assets, Interests, and Conditions • Fundamental and Most Pressing Needs • Critiquing of Portraits • Feedback intended to build on and improve discovery work

4. Thurs 23 May - Agenda • Preparing to plan • Planning questions and considerations • Planning process • Planning meeting process • Useful frames and strategies

5. Fri 24 May - Agenda • Individualised Supports • A description of our new way of working • Imagining Better • Stories designed to inspire and provoke thought and consideration

6. Review - SRV • Whyis it so hard for people we support to enjoy the same goodlife we take for granted? • What contributes to someone being devalued? • What are some of the common life experiences of people who are devalued? • What are some of the impacts of devaluation? • What is the antidoteto devaluation? • What are the two primary strategies of SRV?

7. Review- SRV • What do we mean by role expectancy and circularity? • What question do we ask if we are inquiring about the culturally valued analog? • When we are exploring model coherency, on what two factors do we focus? • How is the conservatism corollary helpful in our work? • What do we mean by personal, valued social integration? • How are non-programmatic issues different than programmatic ones?

8. Review – Individualised Practice • What is the first thing to attend to when engaging in this new way of working? • After negotiating a positive and respectful working relationship, what is our next task? • Why is discovery so importantto doing the work in a different way? • What are the three biggest, most universal domains for defining a desirable lifestyle? • What threeresources should we explore before organising formal supports?

9. Review – Partnership & Empowerment • What are some of the most critical features of a good partnership? • What do we mean by “interpersonal identification”? • What are some of the most beneficial roles of supporters? • What are some universal characteristics of choice? • What options are we most likely to choose? • What are some strategic supports we can offer to enhance choice-making?

10. Review – Discovery • Why invest in discovery? • What are some of the characteristics of good discovery? • What three areas of information are especially relevant to discovery? • What kinds of things might constitute assets or talents?

11. Endeavour for Excellence Partnering, Discovery, and Planning

12. Partnering • Shared values • Shared responsibility • Mutual respect • Role clarity • Communication • Conflict management • Interpersonal identification

13. Discovery • Intentional, strategic, focused • Intensive, thorough, wholistic • Positive, capacity-focused • Optimistic, hopeful, respectful • Descriptive, observant, factual • Multiple perspectives • Novel experiences, new possibilities • Locally grounded

14. From Discovery to Planning Feb. 9 – Mar 4 Enhancing discovery Preparing for individualised planning

15. When is Discovery Complete? • Never! • New and useful ‘discovery’ habits: • Observing detail • Noticing competency • Imagining possibility • Curiosity and creativity • Customizing support

16. Implies Action

17. Focuses on Just One Person

18. Is Systematic and Intentional

19. Is a Circular Process

20. Is Self-Fulfilling

21. Results in Typical Outcomes

22. Planning is More Is More Than Asking What People Want

23. Person-Centered Approaches • Personal Futures Planning (PFP) • Beth Mount - oriented toward organizing and extending a person’s social supports. • Making Action Plans (MAPS) • Marsha Forest - oriented toward planning for school inclusion. • Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope (PATH) • Pearpoint, O’Brien, & Forest - oriented toward helping individuals and groups chart strategies for achieving valued futures.

24. Person-Centered Approaches • Essential Lifestyle Planning (ELP) • Smull-oriented toward encouraging community services to become more person-centered in their approach to serving people, especially those with challenging behavior. • Roles-Based Planning • Ramsey - marries Person-Centered Planning and Social Role Valorization to improve social status, social inclusion, and employment outcomes.

25. What Constitutes Individualised Planning? • Focuses on just one person at a time • Portrays person in most positive light • Empowers person with rights and responsibility • Looks to create new options • Focuses on typical, highly valued and desirable possibilities • Specifies most fitting roles • Addresses enhancement of relationships

26. Desired Planning Outcomes • The most fitting possibilities worth embracing • The most highly regarded opportunities to pursue • Empowering and affirming the person • Engaging othersin the change effort • Concrete plan of action • Insuring accountability

27. The Facilitator’s Role • Act as advocatefor and defend the person • Build a committed and caring team • Model respect and consideration • Be creative, think outside the box • Develop a clear shared vision • Createrecordplanning activities • Generateenthusiasm and optimism • Inspireaction

28. Individualised Planning Decisions • Who to invite • What approach to embrace • When to meet • Where to meet • How to invite • Role of person • Major domains, themes, anticipated challenges

29. EFE Group Planning Option • Agreement and participation of person/family • Availability and participation of relevant team • Preparation work necessary • Guided/supported facilitation • 30 minute evening session to prepare

30. Thank you • www.genio.ie