• 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?

• Framework for Reflective Questioning (4As)

  
  

• Expressive Art & Symbol work to process 4As

  Awareness: What are your strength/ challenge in delivering the curriculum?

  Analysis: How has that challenge impacted your curriculum delivery?

  Alternative: What are possible supports/ ways to address that challenge?

  Action: What is the ONE action/ step you will take to overcome that challenge?

  
  

• Reflecting on the skills promoted at each of the 4As.

  E.g. Awareness: Develops empathy, self- awareness and curiosity​

  
  

• Highlighting on how asking reflective questioning promotes (i) Parental reflective functioning & (ii) Keeping the child in mind.

  
  

  
  

  
  

• One key takeaway (what they appreciate/ one thing that that they will do differently).

(i) Grounding Activity

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

Retune to reflect on the above activity

Reflective questions (based on 4As) in the slide below.

• Difficult situations that KSPs commonly encounter/ not prepared for

• Curating curriculum that caters to parent’s comprehension and to obtain their buy-in

• Affirmation

  Sharing of appreciation to the KSPs who has facilitate the session, what they appreciate.

  
  

• Transfer of Learning

  ONE change they will apply in their practice.

  
  

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)

1. Acknowledge and celebrate their strength in overcoming challenges.

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

Reflection:

• Using Symbol Work & Expressive activity

Honor Strength in Overcoming Challenges

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

   • Relationship building

   • Responding to strengths

   • Facilitating Parent-child interaction

   • Collaboration with Caregivers

2. My Challenge: Share a challenge they faced (with a particular family) 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?

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?

Paired activity:

3 things that I am proud of

2 things I am getting better at...

1 thing I am figuring out...

Retune to reflect:

• How was the experience ?

• How did the facilitator response to your sharing ?

• How does that make you feel ?

• How do you think parents will response/ feel - from your questions and responses ?

• How can you reframe this activity for parents and child (to check on their progress) ?

Obj:

1. To reflect on our approach and how can we best position ourselves to support the family, meeting them where they're at?

2. What thoughts come to mind when I think about my role...as a "helper" or expert ?

1. To apply (refresh) the use of 4As and OARS

Paired Activity:

• Select an image that represents Up/ Down for the week.

• Take turns to facilitate sharing

• Then, reflect on how 4As and OARs were used

1. To recognize and reflect on personal challenges in working with challenging families. ​

2. To apply effective communication strategies in working with challenging families

• Affirmation: "I appreciate.."

• Transfer of Learning: " I'm processing"/ "I want to grow and try..."

Paired Activity: To process through writing and reflect on:

Aware

• What is the change I’m facing or want to embrace?

Analysis

• What influences my openness to change ?

• What’s the barrier?

Alternative/ Action

• What’s one action I can take today ?

• Who can support this change ?

1) To reflect on observed parent-child interactions (PCI) and identify strategies to facilitate positive interactions.

2) To practice applying a PCI observational tool

• Affirmation: "I appreciate.."

• Transfer of Learning: " I'm processing"/ "I want to grow and try..."

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?

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.

• 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

- 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