1. Beliefs and Values Seeking Social Justice
Stop the Life Wasting!
How Do We Support “Lives of Distinction”?
Deep Listening: What Do You Want to Do?
(Not What I Think I Need to Do TO YOU or FOR YOU!)
How Do We Co-Create?
How Do We Engage in Right Relationship?
How Do We Reshape Our Resources?
Chris
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2. Beliefs and Values Seeking Social Justice
What Reshaping Means
BEING FLEXIBLE, TIME AND AGAIN, WITH RESOURCES
RESHAPING RESOURCES AGAIN AND AGAIN TO FIT ONE PERSON AT A TIME
DEMANDS RETHINKING “GROWTH”
Reshaping takes so much E and Time, little time for traditional growth
Unless growth can be used to leverage reshaping
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3. Beliefs and Values Seeking Social Justice
What Reshaping Means
Redefining “Growth” to Mean Practicing (in true sense):
OPEN MIND
OPEN HEART
OPEN WILL
Reshaping takes so much E and Time, little time for traditional growth
Unless growth can be used to leverage reshaping
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4. Open Heart: The Rule that Guides Quality Person-Centered Exploration and Support Design
“Don’t be a do-gooder. Be a gooder-doer”
Wolf Wolfensberger
Journey is spiritual
“The success of an intervention depends upon the
interior condition of the intervener”.
Bill O’Brien

5. OPEN WILL
“MAKE HOPE PALPABLE”
John O’Brien
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6. Processes That Have Helped
Practice
AI: Organizations Move in the Direction of the Questions They Ask
Organizations Move in the Direction
of Their Practices
Organizational Circuitry Will Change with Practice,
Practice, Practice, Practice
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7. Overarching Strategies
Dancing the Dance of Contradictions
Individual Freedom and Autonomy vs Safety and Control
Organizational Risk vs Individual Growth
Individual Growth vs “Skill Building”
Creativity and Flexibility vs Imposed Governmental Controls
Creating Room in Which to Dance
Holding Spaces Sacred
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8. SOME MECHANICS Peter Block on “HOW”
“If we were really committed to the pursuit of what matters, we might be well served to hold a moratorium on the question, ‘How’?
It would force us to engage in conversations about why we do what we do. It would create the space for longer discussions about purpose, about what is worth doing. It would refocus our attention on deciding what is the right question, rather than what is the right answer.”
Sandy
How many visits have we had from agencies with no change in their behavior
Visits are always about “how”.
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9. Decouple from others people’s supports… and behave “as if”
SOME MECHANICS
Decouple from others people’s supports… and behave “as if”
Traditional Dollars Used “As If” They were Self Directed

10. Jim
Family Partnerships
Tell Jim’s Story

11. Gary, Edie, Doug and Brian
Family
Partnerships

12. OUTCOMES
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13. OUTCOMES
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14. OUTCOMES
George
and
Brian
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15. George on Right Relationships
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