The tool engages young people and adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in their life planning to increase positive learning and life outcomes.
It coaches people to:
Identify their unique strengths and how they come into play in their lives
Co-design their planning to formulate a personal vision that inspires them
Develop their vision into goals
Embed their strengths into the process of working on their goals - harness different strengths for different goals.
Unpack goals into smaller achievable steps to build their confidence in goal setting and goal achieving
Grow their voice to enable them to make positive choices in planning their future
Nurture their inner leader through contributing meaningfully to their communities.
William describes his experience and shares his learning from his Pictability journey
In Albania, we facilitated a Pictability session with youth who had a sibling with disability. This session was formative for these youth in terms of formulating their goals to support their brother or sister and creating steps to achieve these lifelong goals.
Watch a quick Deep Dive about this strength-based program
A visual overview playlist is accessible at: tinyurl.com/youth-program-testimonies (screenshot below). This playlist groups program participants, including youth workers who supported some participants, sharing their feedback and thoughts about program elements and impact of the program. We also interviewed some parents and staff from our hosting organisation.
Participants interviewed explained how they achieved their goal using their signature strengths and described their favourite tools used during the workshop.
Support workers: Some participants were supported by their youth workers whose feedback was that they witnessed progress with the people they were supporting in goal setting and goal getting. These youth workers felt that such workshops could contribute to youth workers professional development
The parents of the younger participants shared the changes in attitude, action and intent that they had witnessed with their children and saw merit in following up with the program for their children to accomplish more goals, and in the process strengthen their new knowledge.