PATH training, August 2023 – and updates

Sign at PosAbilities “Festival of Flourishing”, leading to our story-telling tent 🙂 Eilidh Nicholson and I, hosted by Spectrum Society for Community Living, will be facilitating a 3 day training in Vancouver, August 23 – 25th. You can find out more, and register, here. We will examine several tools for thinking about person centered planning, network development and goal setting. We will focus particularly on PATH as a template for planning but will also look at MAPS, Solution Circles, the Circles diagram and One Page Profiles. At the end of these three days together participants will be able to facilitate … Continue reading PATH training, August 2023 – and updates

Invitation, discovery and engagement: Great real-life examples of families inviting community in to help them with planning.

Originally posted on 101 Ways to Make Friends:
David Wetherow has got us thinking, first about the idea that any planning event is an opportunity for invitation, and second, about invitation and introduction in general.   This led us to create a short workshop which we’ve now given a few times, “The Fine Art and Craft of Introduction and Invitation,” on rethinking how we approach community through growing our ability to invite and introduce by identifying and focusing on sharing our strengths. We’ve been given permission to use a couple of examples to show and most recently this one, from Kari Sullivan… Continue reading Invitation, discovery and engagement: Great real-life examples of families inviting community in to help them with planning.