Call Forth the Light in Community Life

1. Call Forth the Light in Community Life

2. ways to embody their contribution Capacity Thinking The art of discovering what people can contribute to community life

3. A Road Map of the Journey The Tasks and Tools of Personal Futures Planning TASK 2: Finding Capacities in People TASK 3: Finding Opportunities in Community Life Tool: The Personal Profile Tool: The Community Building Map • VALUES • Relationships • Places • Valued Roles • Choice • Contribution TASK 1: Getting to Know People TASK 4: Creating a Vision for the Future Tool: The Futures Plan Tool: The Relationship Map TASK 6: Organizational Change: Constructive System Support TASK 5: Supporting People Over Time to Take Action and Try Things Tool: Designing Platforms for Change Tool: Follow Along Meetings & Action Plans

4. How do you know it’s person-centered planning? 1. The person is at the center 2. Family members & friends are full partners 3. The focus is on developing capacities 4. Hopeful action happens 5. Listening & learning continue

5. What person-centered planners do? • Build a capacity view and a rich vision for a community future • Challenge deficiency thinking • Get involved with community people, places, & associations • Raise expectations • Join others to create opportunities, develop resources, & arrange assistance

6. How they do it • Gather the people who care & can act • Listen respectfully to understand the whole person • Search for possibilities by describing history & current realities, & by seeking ideas & leads from others • Create & share vivid & powerful images of desirable futures as a platform for asking for what is desirable • Go through many cycles of learning by acting, inviting others into the action, & reflecting

7. Voluntary participation in a large group person-centered planning process A facilitator team guides the whole large group by: • Introducing ideas and skills essential to person-centered planning • Defining a set of person-centered planning tasks for circles to work on in a self-managed way • Orchestrating the sharing of experience and learning among the circles • Involving resource people who provide relevant ideas, information and inspiration

8. School people, service providers, & professionals Facilitator Focus person Family member Project support person Friend Food & drink

16. Conditions that safeguard the process • Participation is voluntary • A team of skilled facilitators with knowledge of and commitment to personalized supports • A circle including (1) the focus person (2) someone who loves the person (3) others with a personal or work-related investment in the focus person’s future • Group as a whole is diverse but united by a common life transition & the circumstances of living with a disability in a particular place & service system

17. THE FIRST WINDOW These are the People I can count on: Reflection Task 1.1: Building a Relationship Map Friends Family Family Life Family Life Personal Network Community Network Service Providers

18. FAMILY CIRCLEName the people you love most and who love you most in the center circle, the place of family life - people you trust the most, who know you best, who love and care about you. • PERSONAL NETWORKFamily, friends, neighbors, classmates, co-workers, church members, helpful teachers (or other paid people).People you rely on, with whom you exchange friendship and concern, triumphs, struggles, mutual interests. • COMMUNITY NETWORKAcquaintances, friends from the past, people who you mostly greet or acknowledge as part of your community life. Put each person on the map as a stick figure with the person’s name. Indicate the nature of the relationship and how long you’ve known each other. Put people who are most important closest to the center. Indicate intensity & strength of the relationship with heavier lines. Highlight people in yellow who might be involved in your support circle. Look at your map. What do you notice? Do you see any patterns or themes?