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Name of facilitator/s: Crystal and Rashidah

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Name of facilitator/s: Crystal and Rashidah

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Topic: Parent Motivation, Understanding Barriers, Building Bridges.

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Name of facilitator/s: Massitha and Zane

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Name of facilitator/s: Massitha and Zane

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Topic: Supporting Caregiver's Mental Wellbeing

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Supporting Change with Curriculum

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Topic: Addressing Sensitive topic with Caregivers

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Facilitating Caregiver-Child Interaction

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Sparkling Reflection through Curriculum Delivery

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Honor Strength in Overcoming Challenges

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Obj:

Develop self-awareness through sharing and reflection.

Understand the impact of open-ended questions on facilitating reflection.

Gain insights into their own thought processes and experiences.

Retune:

Pause, breathe, think about your week.

Pick a picture that best describes how your past week has been.

Share with one person who you haven't spoken with this week.

The listener askes only 2 open-ended questions to help the speaker reflect on their sharing.

The questions should encourage the speaker to think deeper about their experience and its significance.

Probing questions:

1. What questions can you ask to help your partner uncover a new insight or perspective about their week?

2. What question can you ask to encourage your partner to think more deeply about their experience and its significance?

Bioenergetic activity

Walk vigorously and then slow down

Move around the room - large steps

Let shoulders and hips be free

Processing questions:

What led you to choose this picture to describe your week?

How does this experience relate to your values or goals?

What did you learn about yourself from this experience?

How did this experience make you feel, and why?

What would you do differently if faced with a similar situation in the future?

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Objectives: Foster rapport and cultivate a supportive group culture conducive to collaborative learning.

Retune:

1. Welcome and Introduction: Feel, Distraction, Hope

Individual: Expressive Worksheet

2. Group Norms (Respect), Learning Cultures (Appreciates and Generous)

Paired work: Symbol work (to choose a symbol that represent a learning culture)

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Main Topic: Sparkling Reflection through Curriculum delivery

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Main Topic: Sparkling Reflection through Curriculum delivery

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Paired activity 1: Curriculum Delivery Mandala

Obj: To reflect on approaches or practices for delivering a home visit curriculum using AAAA and create a visual representation of insights and actions.

Awareness (Describe):

Draw a mandala representing the current approach to delivering the home visit curriculum. Use symbols, colours, and patterns to reflect experiences and feelings.

Q: What are the feeling or experiences that arise when you are delivering the curriculum?

Analysis (thoughts and inside of the experience):

Analyse the mandala by identifying patterns, strengths and challenges (areas of balance and imbalance).

Write down observations and insights.

Q: What elements in your mandala symbolize your strength and challenges.

How do these elements relate to your experience delivering the curriculum?

Alternative (Potential solution):

Reflect on the challenges, add new elements that represent alternative or skills to address the challenges in your approaches or practices.

Q: What new skills or approaches could you use to address these challenges?

What resources or support system could you draw upon? What personal qualities or strengths could you leverage?

Integrating new elements into your mandala:

How can you represent these new skills, approaches, or resources in your mandala?

What colour, symbols or patterns would you use to symbolize growth and positive change?

How can you integrate these new elements into your existing mandala to create a more balanced and harmonious whole?

Action (Concrete plan): Reflect on the updated mandala and identify actionable steps on how do you want to develop those skills to improve your approaches or practices.

Write down specific actions and strategies.

Q: Reflect on the updated mandala. What skills or approaches do you want to develop?

What specific actions and strategies will you take to improve your approaches or practices?

Activity 2: Experimental Role Play

Scenario of a mom who had just experiences chemical pregnancy. To implement AAAA to introduce Brain Development.

Paired activity: Curriculum Delivery using the 4As.

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Main Topic: Honor Strength in Overcoming Challenges

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Main Topic: Honor Strength in Overcoming Challenges

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Obj:

1. Acknowledge and celebrate their strength in overcoming challenges.

2. Identify growth areas in group learning for enhances collaboration, communication and knowledge acquisition.

Reflection:

Honor Strength in Overcoming Challenges

1. My Strength: Reflecting on strength based in the 4 areas.

Relationship building

Responses to strenth

Facilitating Parent-child interaction

Collaboration with Caregivers

2. My Challenge: Share a challenge they faced and how they have used their strength to overcome the challenge.

Resolution: Strengthening my strength

3. How can I strengthen this strength/ or a strength that I would like to develop?

4. How can the learning circle help me to strengthen/ develop this strength?

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Resolution:

Group sharing: addressed reflection on the challenges and usefulness of the 4As.

Q:

I like/appreciate how...

The challenge for me was ...

I'm proud of how I ...

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Self Reflection:

1. What did you notice from today? (can be of self/others/both and it can involve any/combi of senses)

2. Rate today's Learning circle.

3. What would help with your learning or engagement?

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Retune:

GROUNDING

5 things you can See

4 things you can Touch

3 things you can Hear

2 things you can Smell

1 things you can Taste

Some processing questions:

AWARE

What sensation/ emotions you notice?

ANALYSIS

What was challenging for you?

ALTERNATIVE

When can I apply this technique with caregiver?

ACTION

How can I adapt this technique to better support caregiver?

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Sit and breathe...

Take a moment for yourself...

Activity:

I listen and I don't judge

Pick a card (Ups and Downs - Innovative Resources) that represent the most challenging family you are working with.

Share with one another person what are your feelings and thoughts.

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Retune:

Deep breaths

One highlight ending 2024 and starting 2025.

Energizer Activity:

"Would you rather..?"

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Our own Self-Care Routine:

As you look at this poster, what speaks to you and any that you want to do more of?

Feel free to share with one another or just sit with it.

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Activity: Motivation Matchsticks

Format: In pairs

Materials: Coloured matchsticks or strips of paper in different colours.

Instructions:

Write down on each of the pieces of paper. One idea per strip.

Blue = What motivates me as a practitioner?

Green = What I think motivates other practitioners?

Red = What demotivates practitioners?

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Topic: Developmental Parenting (HOVRS&DIME)

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Main Topic: Supporting change with curriculum

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Main Topic: Supporting change with curriculum

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Objectives:

For practitioners to gain an understanding of implementing curriculum organically.​

For practitioners to gain an understanding of caregivers’ Openness to Change. ​

Activity: Role play (Case scenario was provided by Pearl based on a past case)

Let's unpack:

1. Thoughts and/or feelings​

2. Challenges​

3. Curriculum topics​

4. Entry points ​

5. Understanding your family

Awareness: If you were the KSP, what thoughts/emotions would you have felt about the session?

Analysis: What could have guided the KSP in facilitating the session within the boundaries of her role?

What challenges could the KSP have encountered while planning the session?

Which curriculum topics were incorporated in the discussion between KSP and Parents?

A video on looking for entry points: emergingminds.com.au/resources/in-focus-talking-with-parents-about-their-children/

Openness to Change:  https://emergingminds.com.au/

Level 1: I didn't even know it was a problem.

Level 2: I'm aware but I don't know if I'm ready

Level 3: I'm ready and I want to prepare

Level 4: I'm changing

Level 5: I'm keeping it going

Level 6: Opps, I did it again.

Covered Level 1.

How do you assess how open your client is to change?

Be curious, ask questions.

Examples: What are your thoughts about [topic]?

Is this something you/family want to change?

Level 1:

Client does not see it as a problem and is not interested in helping​

Client has no intent to change behaviour​

KSP is the one who introduces the ‘problem’

Do you have to… ​

share more handouts from Curriculum Manual? ​

share more strategies for sleep routines?​

brainstorm on SMART goals with parents? ​

develop a change plan with parents?​

check-in on progress regularly and identify possible barriers? ​

KSP can….​

Encourage self-exploration, not action​

Reflect and validate their perspective​

Make it clear that the decision is theirs​

Ask permission to share some information​

Provide information and feedback to raise awareness​

Explain and personalise the risk​

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The PERCS Conversation Guide helps practitioners to promote the visibility of the child in sessions, by focusing on what they are seeing, feeling, and thinking in response to the parent's experience of adversity. The five domains of a child's life were developed after an intensive consultation process with practitioners, academics, and parents with lived experience of adversity.

Parent-child relationship - This domain recognises the importance of a safe, secure, responsive, and nurturing relationship between a child and a parent/adult caregiver. The practitioner helps the parent to describe their goals for their relationship with their child, and how their current adversity might be affecting those goals.

Emotions and behaviours - Children need to feel loved, safe and nurtured. They also need to be able to express emotions and have these emotions listened to, and responded to, in a nurturing way. Strong worries or emotions in a child's life will often present as behaviours. The practitioner uses this domain to help the parent consider what the child's emotions or behaviours might be communicating.

Routines - From shared activities such as reading, sports and hobbies to expected meal and bedtimes, routines help provide the child with consistency and safety. These routines are often affected by parental adversity, and the practitioner can help parents to consider how routines can continue, even when times are tough.

Communication and meaning-making - Respectful and effective communication enables children to express their thoughts and emotions, and to make meaning from their experiences. Many children blame themselves for the adversity that happens around them, particularly those who have been subjected to trauma (Guy, 2020). A practitioner can work with parents to help them have conversations with children which are open, transparent, and reassure them that they are not responsible for their parents' experiences of adversity.

Support networks - Safe and supportive networks beyond their immediate family can be a key protective factor for children's social and emotional wellbeing. It is important for children to have many sources of adult support in their lives, and the practitioner can help parents to access supports that can reinforce children's safety and wellbeing.

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In focus: Talking with parents about their children - Emerging Minds

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The PERCS Conversation Guide helps practitioners to promote the visibility of the child in sessions, by focusing on what they are seeing, feeling, and thinking in response to the parent's experience of adversity. The five domains of a child's life were developed after an intensive consultation process with practitioners, academics, and parents with lived experience of adversity.

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Awareness

1. Where are you, in your thoughts, belief and motivation of CCI?

2. From where you are at, what will help you take the next step to increase CCI?

3. Where are the roadblocks, if any, and what would you want to do able it?

Analysis

In pairs, take turns to share.

Person sharing choose one of the question to share.

Person listening will ask reflective questions to enable the person to analyze.

What is CC!?

Our definition of CCI

interacting, bonding, attunement, rapport building, incidental and accidental learning, enjoyment of each other company, closeness, building language, modeling language skills, meeting the needs of the child, consistency towards child's ques in response.

Watching Video:

Pick out what is working?

What enable it to work?

Is there anything that you can take into the HV, how?

Why do you think this is doable? What is not doable?

Alternative and Action:

What would be the questions and statements you will use with the caregiver?

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Awareness:

When a sensitive topic (sensitive for whom, parent or practitioner) arises, where do you feel the discomfort in your body?

What do you think fuels the discomfort?

What do you do with this discomfort?

Tuning in:

What are some of the sensitive topics that you've encountered with your families?

(Developmental Delays/special needs, Breastfeeding, Suicide Ideation, Domestic Violence, Child Safety)

Discussion:

Discuss the situations you've encountered and what have you done to overcome it?

Case Studies:

Note how the KSP feels and assess their readiness level.

What do you think of the KSP's readiness level in this situation?

How does the parent feel during this conversation? How do you know? What are the signs to look out for?

How does the KSP feel in this scenario?

What can you do to feel ready to approach sensitive topics?

Tying in with HOVRS:

Which scale and specific indicator will be able to support and facilitate the conversation on sensitive topics? How?

What are some behaviors you will see in yourself?

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Main Topic: Parent Motivation - Understanding Barriers, Building Bridges

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Main Topic: Parent Motivation - Understanding Barriers, Building Bridges

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Questions to reflect on:

1. Think of a parent you supported who needed more encouragement. What behaviours or traits did you observe?

2. How can understanding common challenges and behaviours linked to low motivation share our approach to engaging families, and why does this matter?

OARS: Open-ended questions, Affirmations, Reflections, Summarise.

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Parent Motivation Understanding Barriers, Building Bridges

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Affirmation:

I appreciate...

Transfer of Learning:

What are your thoughts, feelings and behaviours?

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Reflection:

What personal strategies or mindset shifts can help you feel more prepared for difficult conversations with parents?

How do you plan to manage emotional discomfort in future sessions?

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Thorn(s) I'm processing

Still finding 'solutions for clients'

How to scaffold support for low motivated families

To actively reflect session with families

A good reflection tool, OARS

Bud(s) I want to grow/try:

- I would like to grow deeper into reflective practice with my families

- Doing more of OARS for my sessions

- Using OARS to reflect

- To apply OARS in my sessions more purposefully

- how to use open ended questions more & use OARS

- Applying OARS at work in encouraging lowly motivated families

- Actively summarise the session with families

- Try motivational interviewing

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Under the tab on Mental Well-being, there are tools and resources for further understanding of the different needs and resources to support the caregiver.

Consider how you will adapt the resources to the different families.

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Explore our suite of self-care tools and resources to help you better understand and manage your mental health.

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Questions for reflection:

1. Have you ever felt uncomfortable in a conversation?

2. What do you think fuels the discomfort?

3. What are some sensitive topics that you've encountered with your families?

4. Discuss the situations you've encountered and what have you done to overcome it?

Readiness level of the practitioner and caregiver...

Levels 0 to 3

Discussion questions for the case studies

What do you think of the KSP's readiness level in this situation?

How does the parent feel during this conversation?

How does the KSP feel in this scenario?

What can you do to feel ready to approach sensitive topics?

Self-Check-in

How do I feel?

Am I comfortable to talk?

Do I need support before proceeding?

What kind of support do I need now?

Reflection

1. What personal strategies or mindset shifts can help you feel more prepared for difficult conversations with parents?

2. How do you plan to manage emotional discomfort in future sessions?

Tying back to HOVRS

Which of the scales and specific indicator will be able to support and facilitate the conversation on sensitive topics? How?

Scale 1.7, 1.1, 1.3, 1.6, 1.5.

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Facilitating caregiver‐child interactions in home visiting: A qualitative observational study

1. The ShREC approach – Four evidence informed strategies to… | EEF

2. Bing Videos

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5-4-3-2-1-coping-technique-for-anxiety

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Tips on the level of openness of the client.

expressing vulnerability to parents

my co facilitator Sahana

the learning circle in its entirety

role play helps with content delivery

my co facilitator Pearl and my fellow team members for their active participation. And for the mentors for their guidance. Their facilitation was helpful in enhancing my perspective and approach too.

safe space

hands-on activities

discussion and reflection

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shared experiences!

Topic and small group discussions

The content delivery

Shared experiences

The slides are interactive

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knowledge on how to moderate conversations as they identify signs from parents.

The opportunities to have open conversations, to explore their thoughts with one another.

The discussions.

the screening tools are helpful.

topic

content and the delivery

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From Nora:

Everyone's attention whilst she present.

1. Content

2. Everything :)

3. The discussion and content delivery is great.

4. The content was very well delivered.

5. Nora's facilitation and sharing. Learning from peers too.

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- Very informative and reflective

- Thank you for sharing an important topic for our everyday job. The case studies and discussions helped a lot too

- *pats my own back* 😁

- Rashidah was clear in her facilitation and able to pick up responses and link and expand on themgood job!!! i’ve a better understanding of how to motivate parents using OARS

- Facilitation of sharing of different case scenarios that are real from the ground :)

- Great sharing & discussion

- It was a very intuitive session

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as we have always done it!

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Keep it up!

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Things are good the way it is now.

Alrdy very good (:

So far it has been great

More time!

Sharing of resources

As the LC always over runs, would it be okay if thr LC is set for 2.5 or 3 hrs instead? At least if it ends earlier it will be better.

More sharing about KSP’s coping on different situations

Sharing of KSP's tools

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More discussions!

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Dathan D. Rush, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, and M’Lisa L. Shelden, PT, Ph.DA Framework for Reflective Questioning When Using a Coaching Interaction Style (View here)

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Role play which allowed us to practice questioning skills

I really like the self-reflection and time dedicated to allowing us KSP to reflect and ponder upon our delivery to parents and ourselves

reflecting with the framework

Content delivery of 4As and activity for self-reflection

4As framework, reflective activity

The 4As guide was very helpful in the sense that I now know how to formulate questions with parents and keep parents focus on the topics.

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1. Current flow is satisfactory.

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