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PATH training, August 2023 – and updates

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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

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CLBC’s Community Safeguards Projects and 101 Friends

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Under Jule Hopkins Community Living B.C. (C.L.B.C.) took on a brave agenda of creating documents related to how people can plan for vulnerability and stay safer in community, which had many different parts.  I continue to think this was really exemplary work that involved many self advocates and families, as well as brought together different groups. Jule was an early believer in our work and we used methods from what is now called CBPR (Community Based Participatory Research) and, together, learned a great deal about how inclusive groups and inclusive research works, and got to work with colleagues and agencies … Continue reading CLBC’s Community Safeguards Projects and 101 Friends

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Syllabus #CLMOOC

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Then I thought, hey And courses I’m teaching – person centred planning for folks with disabilities, leadership and developmental studies through the lifespan – are really exciting too.  As usual I am thoughtful about how the support of folks with disabilities, one of the most lively, joy-provoking things to do, is made dull with old scripts based on needs and lacks and deficits…    and perhaps that’s the point?  If we were to really throw ourselves into the inspiration that folks with disabilities give us – I don’t mean by this a kind of disability-porn too-easy sleaziness – the way … Continue reading Syllabus #CLMOOC