We understand our child’s strengths & additional needs.
We should know our rights & advocate effectively for our children.
We can help our children develop & learn.
We should feel supported.
We should have access to desired services, programs & activities in our communities.
We should enjoy health & wellbeing.
INDIVIDUALLY (5 minutes)
Review your goal and prepare to describe it to another parent
Identify the strengths that will help you progress your goal
IN PAIRS - Coaching Discussion (10 minutes per person)
You will interview each other about your next goal, your strengths and how to achieve your next step right after the discussion..
Decide: Who will be the first interviewer and who will be interviewed
Interviewers: fill your peer’s goal details on the other side of this sheet
Write in what their long term goal is. Discuss how the goal supports the interviewee’s life and wishes.
Reflect on the interviewee’s strengths.
Discuss which strength(s) they will use to work on their goal and how. Ask in what way will a particular strength help them achieve this goal.
Clarify what is the first achievable step that they can work on right now. Note: It can be to do some research, to make a list of options or register for something that will bring them closer to their goal.
Change roles and repeat
INDIVIDUALLY (5 minutes)
3. ACHIEVE YOUR FIRST STEP
IF YOU FINISH EARLY
4. STRENGTHS SPOTTING DISCUSSION
Ideas for possible discussion questions:
What did you find out? How did it feel to achieve your first step?
What were you feeling?
Did you feel it anywhere in your body?
How might you feel when you achieve the long term goal?
What did you enjoy most about interviewing?”
What was it like to hear your strengths named?
How did linking strengths to a goal shift your thinking?
This is a prime example of how things can be invisible yet in plain sight. Whether its our child’s strengths, or what our child is communicating, not through their words, but their actions.
There are things that our children are communicating and we need to be careful that they are not invisible in plain sight”
Next we will review and progress you Child Goal!