Tag: disability
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
Planning for Vulnerabilities with Self Advocates
Why is there a photograph of Woodlands Institution in a posting about planning for vulnerabilities with self advocates? Because, once upon a time, our society thought that the best way to keep people safe was to look them away. Ken Scott, in his historical research article, The BC Public Hospital for the Insane, 1872-1902, writes of the earliest institution being built in 1878 and in 1894, only 16 years later, with a total of 117 patients there was already a royal commission into abuses: . . . to investigate questionable practices . . . when a male patient died after … Continue reading Planning for Vulnerabilities with Self Advocates