Our Courses

We provide training and consultancy for families, for people who want to develop their own plans, and for organisations.

We have established courses and we also design and develop new courses or projects for and with our customers using design teams. A design team is made up of a cross section of the participants who will be on the course or event and other stakeholders. We work with the design team to develop a clear common purpose and plan activities and logistics to achieve this purpose.

 

Developing Person Centred Teams and Implementing Planning.
This is a four day course delivered over an 8 week period designed for first line managers who have direct responsibility for the work of teams implementing person centred planning.
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Developing Support Plans.
This is a two day workshop, designed to give participants an introduction and overview of support planning and its role within the self directed support process.
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Essential Lifestyle Planning Facilitator Training.
This is a four day course delivered over a 10-12 week period. The first two days are designed to provide participants with competency in using the person centred thinking skills.
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Essential Lifestyle Planning - Train the Trainers.
As Partnership Boards and service providers develop frameworks for the implementation of person centred planning and develop their breath and depth strategy for training, as outlined in the Guidance, organisations may wish to develop their local training capacity. This nine day course will enable participants to deliver both 'breadth and depth training'.
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Families Planning Together.
The workshop assists families in learning how to develop or help their loved one develop his or her own One Page Profiles, which can be helpful in describing what matters most to the person and how to best support them.
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Financial Organisational Challenges for Personalisation.
This one day workshop supports providers to consider and identify the challenges and implications of the personalisation agenda on their financial policies, procedures and practices.
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Getting started with your plan.
This one day workshop is designed for individuals and/or their family members who want to know how to get started with support planning, either for themselves or on behalf of somebody else.
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Human Resource Challenges for Personalisation.
This one day workshop supports providers to consider and identify the challenges and implications of the personalisation agenda on their human resource policies, procedures and practices.
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Introduction to Personalised Care Planning.
Personalised care planning is central to enabling people to be in control of their health and their life. The development of the personal care plan is a key part of this process. A personal care plan describes; who a person is, the health outcomes they want to achieve and the support they will need to achieve these outcomes. It then shows how they will use their personal health budget to make this happen.
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Introduction to Working Together for Change.
This one day workshop describes a simple six stage process that uses person centred information (for example from person centred reviews, person centred plans or support plans) to drive strategic change and commissioning.
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Just Enough Support.
This one day workshop has been designed specifically to offer proactive steps to make a concerted push around developing alternatives to just paid support and promote better outcomes for people. Building on the work described in "All Together Now" and offering a highly practical, step-by-step approach to generating ideas, testing and implementing them.

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Learning and Reflection Day for Support Planners.
This one day workshop has been designed specifically to offer effective support to those people who have undertaken the two day course for support planners and who have a responsibility for developing support plans.
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Managers and Person Centred Practices - using the new "Progress for Providers for Managers - Checking you progress in using Person Centred Approaches.

This one day course enables managers of provider services to identify and begin to address the changes that are needed to ensure that person centred approaches are embedded in day to day practice and that people using services have choice and control over how they are supported.

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MAP and PATH.
This course will focus on tools developed by John O'Brien, Jack Pearpoint and Marsha Forest. Specifically it will focus on MAP and PATH but also looking at other problem solving tools such as solution circles. Underlying the whole course is the principle of graphic recording, helping participants develop the use of images and pictures to stimulate creativity in a way that words alone cannot. This is a four day course delivered over a six month period.
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Marketing your Organisation for Personalisation.
This one day workshop supports providers to consider how to market their organisation for personalisation.
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One Page Profiles.
This one day workshop provides participants with the skills to use the core person centred thinking tools needed to develop a one page profile, and act on this. The workshop also shows how to go from a one page profile to a person centred plan (essential lifestyle plan) and how a one page profile can be the beginning of a support plan.
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Outcome Focused Reviews - An Introduction.
This is a one day workshop designed to introduce participants to the process of outcome focused reviews.
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Outcome Focused Reviews.
This is a two day workshop designed to share the outcome focused review process for reviewing support plans and to support people to facilitate this type of review. What makes for a successful review and the key elements of a great review. How to support people to prepare for their reviews. Explores how information from reviews can inform strategic change.
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Pathways and Profiles: Using person centred thinking tools with the Getting a Life transition pathways.

The Getting a Life Pathways covering employment, health, becoming independent (home) and friends and community show us how we should be supporting young people through the transition from school to a fulfilling adult life. Person centred thinking tools are invaluable in helping us do this well.

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People Planning Together.
This workshop provides an opportunity for people to develop their own One Page Profile and explore their dreams and goals. People will also learn how they can direct what happens with their plan and supports.
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Personalised Care Planning.
Personalised care planning is central to enabling people to be in control of their health and their life. The development of the personal care plan is a key part of this process. A personal care plan describes; who a person is, the health outcomes they want to achieve and the support they will need to achieve these outcomes. It then shows how they will use their personal health budget to make this happen.
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Person Centred Reviews: Important To/For Reviews and Working/Not Working Reviews.
There are ways of facilitating reviews that puts the person at the centre of the process and draws on person centred thinking tools and approaches. This process often does not take any more time or preparation, but will develop a clear and focused person centred action plan with the person.
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Person Centred Reviews in Transition: Using the Transition Pathways.
This two day course is for teachers, teaching assistants, SENCOs, health professionals and many other key people are required to facilitate reviews as part of their role.

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Person Centred Reviews - Transition Reviews, Citizenship Reviews.
Care managers, teachers, social workers, health professionals, SENCOs and many other key people are required to facilitate reviews as part of the transition process for a young person.
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Person Centred Thinking Skills.
In essential lifestyle planning we have identified 5 basic skills and with 7 tools. This 2 day course covers each of the 5 basic skills with opportunities to practice them and think about how to apply them in your work.
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Person Centred Thinking Skills with Older People.

Over the last ten years we have been using person centred thinking tools with older people and their allies in order to improve quality of life and increase choice and control whilst also providing an evidence based paper trail of how that is happening for people.

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Person Centred Thinking Skills with People living with Dementia.

Over the last ten years we have been using person centred thinking tools with people who have dementia and their allies in order to improve quality of life and increase choice and control whilst also providing an evidence based paper trail of how that is happening for people.

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Person Centred Thinking - Train the Trainers.
This 7 day programme will enable people to deliver person centred thinking training and to support facilitators/ coaches on an ongoing basis with the development, coaching of others and implementation of their plans.
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Person Centred Risk.
This is a one, or a two day, person centred risk course. This course is suitable for senior managers, first line managers, family members and carers and support workers.
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Person Centred Supervision.
This is a one day course. Person centred supervision is a partnership process that creates respectful and supportive climate enabling people to understand and support each other well. This course is suitable for any one in a supervisory position.
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Planning Live! Workshop.
This is a three day programme with an optional fourth day, designed for individuals, their family members, Circles of Support members and professionals who are trained support planning facilitators, whose purpose is to enable people to develop their support plan ready for signing off by a budget holder. It is designed for people developing their own support plan or for families, friends and support planners, who will be helping people develop a support plan.
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Positive and Productive Meetings.
The positive and productive meetings course is an innovative, practical meeting process that ensures that people can listen carefully, think clearly and therefore make effective decisions together.
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Progress for Providers and Customer Journey.
This two day course enables providers to make the changes that are required to deliver personalised services and operationally responsive, flexible service provision, through the development of Individualised Service Funds.
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Re-ablement (one day).
This one day workshop provides participants with the skills to use core person centred thinking tools. The information gathered can be developed into a one page profile and the beginning of the support plan. The course includes the journey of the customer from the time of referral through the 6 weeks process of re-ablement and how the tools can be used to support the person and the staff member well throughout the process.
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Re-ablement (two day).
This two day workshop provides participants with the skills to use core person centred thinking tools. The information gathered can be developed into a one page profile and the beginning of the support plan. The course includes the journey of the customer from the time of referral through the 6 weeks process of re-ablement and how the tools can be used to support the person and the staff member well throughout the process.
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Re-ablement, the new journey. Design day. 

This one day workshop to design and map out what is needed locally to be able to offer a new reablement journey that complements your local vision.

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Self Directed Support in Practice - Roles and Responsibilities of Social Care Staff.
This two day workshop is designed to introduce social care staff, (care managers) to the self-directed support process and their roles and responsibilities within that.
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Support Planning Awareness Day.
This is a one day workshop, designed to give participants an introduction and overview of support planning and its role within the self directed support process.
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Support Planning and Individual Service Funds for Providers.
This is a one day course designed to support providers to consider the challenges and implications of developing support plans within their service and/or using support plans to develop Individual Service Funds.
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Support Planning and Review Strategy Day.
This one day workshop is designed to introduce best practice recommendations for commencing the process of developing a robust support planning and review strategy.
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Workforce Development Strategy Day.
This one day workshop begins the development of a workforce strategy, which identifies and clearly outlines the training and support required to deliver the changes the personalisation agenda requires.
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Working with Decision-Makers (Who Agree Support Plan).
This one day workshop is designed to introduce decision-makers, who have responsibility for agreeing and signing off support plans, to the self-directed support process. This includes team managers, operational managers, divisional managers.
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Working Together for Change.
This is a simple six stage process that uses person centred information and themes it to inform strategic change. The person centred information may come from person centred reviews, person centred plans or support plans.
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Let's Be Healthy: Person Centred Approach to Health and Wellness.
This course is still in the planning stage, but for more information, please email: amandag@helensandersonassociates.com

 

Survivorship Planning - Person Centred Approach to planning for your life after cancer treatment.
This course is still in the planning stage, but for more information, please email: 
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Using Person Centred Thinking Skills with people living with a life limiting illness and those approaching end of life.

We have been using person centred thinking tools with people who have a life limiting illness and people approaching end of life. Over the past two years we have been pioneering a person centred approach called "Living Well....thinking and planning for the end of your life".

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