Essential Lifestyle Planning Facilitator Training.

The government’s guidance on person centred planning requires organisations to provide training in a variety of person centred planning approaches.

This training provides participants with an in depth working knowledge of Essential Lifestyle Planning. This is part of what is described in the guidance as the 'depth strategy'.

 

What does this course cover?

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. Participants will learn about person centred thinking tools and exercises that they can take away, share with their colleagues and begin to use straight away. Participants will develop their own one page profile over these two days.

The further two days will introduce 5 more person centred thinking tools, a person centred review process and facilitating/coaching - showing how we can grow one page profiles into essential lifestyle plans through a variety of methods. Day 3 of the course will take place approximately four weeks later and is designed to support participants to be able to grow the one page profile into an essential lifestyle plan, coach others to contribute to it, facilitate a person centred review and develop an essential lifestyle plan with somebody they support.

Day 4 of the course will take place approximately six weeks later and is designed to support participants by reflecting on the work they have done since the last day and share ideas on keeping the plan 'live', ensuring it makes an ongoing difference to the person. Further person centred thinking tools will be introduced on this day, we also reflect on what great essential lifestyle plans feature.

Participants will be required to complete work in between training days.

 

Who is it for?

People who deliver services, families who want to plan with someone they know and care about, care managers, service co-ordinators, health professionals.

What will people know and be able to do as a result of attending this course?

 

• Experience person centred thinking tools to create an essential lifestyle plan.
• Gain an in depth working knowledge of essential lifestyle planning.
• Become competent in using the person centred thinking skills.
• Develop their own essential lifestlye plan.
• Gain competence in using the core person centred thinking tools plus 5 additional tools.
• Be clear about the different headings and stages of the essential lifestyle plan meeting.
• Be able to use the person centred review process.
• Be clear about how to support people to prepare people for their meeting.
• Know how to sort what is important to people from what is important for them.
• Be able to respectfully address significant issues of health and safety, whilst supporting choice and informed decision making.
• Know how to consider what makes sense and doesn't make sense in a person's life and develop this into actions to make meaningful changes for the better in the person's life.
• Be able to facilitate essential lifestyle planning meetings.
• Support others to use the person centred thinking tools
• Know how we can grow one page profiles into essential lifestyle plans or inform support plans through a variety of methods.
• Share ideas on keeping the plan 'live', ensuring it makes an ongoing difference to the person.

 

How long is this course?

4 days

How much does this course cost?

UK costs £2800 (£700 per day) excluding VAT, materials and expenses. Contact kerry@helensandersonassociates.co.uk for further information.

For more information regarding delivery and costs for this course internationally, please contact:

In the USA contact amandag@helensandersonassociates.com

In Canada contact juliem@hsacanada.ca

In Australia contact info@helensandersonassociates.com.au

 

Materials

UK - Essential Lifestyle Planning Manual by Michael Smull, Helen Sanderson et al available from HSAPress priced at £14.95.

This course is accredited by the international organisation 'The Learning Community for Person Centred Practices' led by Michael Smull, who co developed ELP in the USA.