What You’ll Learn:
✔ Person-Directed Support
Learn how person-directed is different from person-centred, and why shifting to person-directed is important.
✔ The Gift of Curiosity
Use curiosity as a core support skill to better understand what a person truly wants and values.
✔ Person-Directed Communication
Apply person-directed communication to your work through the how, what, who, when, and where of communication.
✔ Whole-Person, Whole-Life Planning
Learn the six key areas of life to explore when building a good life.
✔ Supported Decision-Making
Learn what supported decision-making is, and how it’s an important part of person-directed planning.
✔ Practical planning
Use practical workbooks and approaches to make a person-directed plan with the people you support
✔ Apply Learning Through Activities
Learn and solidify your learning through practical activities, with real-world benefits.
About the Course
Learn through videos and practical activities.
Includes printable tools and resources you can put to use right away.
Takes 2 - 2.5 hours to complete.
Section 1: Building the Foundation
In this section, we explore what person-directed means and the gift of curiousity.
Activity:
Case study exploring person-directed approaches and the assumptions we can make.
Section 2: Communication and Decision-Making
In this section, we explore how people communicate, what aids in communication, what supported decision-making is, and why it’s important. We look at how person-directed communication and supported decision-making are important foundations to person-directed planning.
Activities:
Activity 1: Communicating joy and happiness
Activity 2: Communication workbook
Activity 3: Decision-making workbook
Resources:
My Communication Workbook
My Decision-Making Workbook
Section 3: Person-Directed Planning
In this section, we look at the 6 areas of life in person-directed planning, how to explore dreams in a practical way, and how to make a person-directed plan.
Activities:
Activity 1: Personalized exploration questions
Activity 2: Exploring dreams
Activity 3: Breaking it down (dreams into goals)
Resources:
Building My Good Life Workbook
Person-Directed Planning Cards
Health Care Planning Resources
Section 4: The Journey Continues
In this last section, we reflect on how to carry this learning into our every day work.