1. Bringing Person Centred Approaches Into Our Everyday Work Max Neill 2007

2. Before Person Centred Planning ?

3. After Person Centred Planning

4. Problems of PCP Skilled facilitators are thin on the ground Getting TIME to facilitate plans Ownership of the plan Services that value paper more than real change in the person’s life Focus on the person is lost in between meetings

5. Too many plans + not enough action = Cynicism

6. Person Centred Thinking Tools

7. Core Duties Zone of Judgement and Creativity Not our job Where do we put Person Centred Approaches Now?

8. Not our job Zone of Judgement and Creativity Core Duties “Someone else should do it” “We think it’s great, and we’ll do it whenever we have spare staff and resources” “ We have to find ways to build Person Centred Approaches into our everyday work”

10. Important To the person Important For the person What People Like and Admire about the person One Page Profile Building A One Page Profile

11. One Page Profile What’s Working What’s Not Working Person’s Views Families Views Others Views Using What’s Working/Whats Not Working To Build on the One Page Profile

12. What’s Working What’s Not Working Person’s Views Families Views Others Views Action Plan Further Thinking

13. Next Steps I want more friends We don’t properly understand how the person communicates with us We need to find the right kind of people to support the person Relationship Circle Communication Chart Matching tool :

14. When this is happening (or has just happened) ……… does thisWe think it means And we do this The context – what is happening outside the person In the environment What’s just gone on The ‘trigger’ The behaviour What others notice Can be seen, heard and felt by others What the behaviour means What the feelings and emotions are Whats going on inside What others should do in response What the person wants other people to do Or not do Communication Chart

15. Matching Staff Supports Skills Needed Supports Wanted and Needed Personality Characteristics Shared Common Interests

16. Learning Logs DateWho was there What happened What went well? What did you learn? What did not go well? What did you learn?

17. Tools for building Person Centered Descriptions Reputations 4 + 1 ?s Rituals Good Day/ Bad Day Learning Logs Working/ Not Working Matching Staff Communication Chart Relationship Map

18. Using staff matching in recruitment Person Centred Reviews Communication Charts Replacing day notes with learning logs Sorting Important To and Important For One Page Profiles Positive and Productive Risk Assessment Ways Forward Using doughnut and working/not working in supervision and staff meetings Team plans and purpose statements

19. Learning Wheel Person Centered Description Action Planning What needs to stay the same? What needs to change? Implementation & Learning PCT Tools © The Learning Community for Essential Lifestyle Planning, Inc. 2006

20. “There’s no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day” Alexander Woolcott