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Guide to Using 5 Bold Steps: A person centered planning approach

This guide outlines a person-centered planning approach for youth development and leadership. Learn how to identify sub-goals, clarify aspirations, identify support, discuss challenges, and determine values to achieve your goals.

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Guide to Using 5 Bold Steps: A person centered planning approach

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  1. Guide to Using 5 Bold Steps:A person centered planning approach Youth Development and Leadership Content Institute 2006

  2. Steps to complete Five Bold Steps • Identify sub-goals and vision elements • Clarify one major aspiration • Identify supports • Discuss challenges • Determine values • Five Bold Steps

  3. Getting started • Invite youth to think about using chart to organize plan for the future • Set up convenient time and location to discuss planning • Be prepared to meet more that one time to complete plan

  4. Step 1: Identify sub- goals or vision elements • Take some time to brainstorm ideas about a variety of goals/ dreams • Goals do not necessarily need to be directly related to major goal/aspiration • Record ideas on circles or vision elements

  5. Step 2: Major goal/ aspiration • Use sunburst to identify major aspiration or goal • Ask participants to think big about their aspirations- don’t let challenges stand in the way of dreams • Major goal can be a career goal but not necessarily

  6. Step 3: Identify supports • Youth should take some time to take stock of resources- family, school,community- that could support goals and sub-goals • Consider resources youth might need to research

  7. Step 4:Discuss challenges • Consider challenges that may make pursuing challenges difficult • Use this time to brainstorm solutions to overcome challenges • Remind participant that challenges should not be considered barriers to goals

  8. Step 5: Underlying Values • Youth should take time to consider personal values that are meaningful and important to individual as goals are pursued. • Examples of values that might be identified include: risk-taking, leadership, honesty, independence, respect, trust.

  9. Step 6: Five Bold Steps • Ask youth to identify 5 (bold) steps that can be taken by youth to reach your goal • Decide in what order steps should be taken • Examples might include researching driver education programs, learning more about a career, identifying a mentor, visiting colleges, preparing to lead IEP meeting.

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