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:

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?

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?

• 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?

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.

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 ...

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?

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.

• Deep breaths

• One highlight ending 2024 and starting 2025.

Energizer Activity:

"Would you rather..?"

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.

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?

• 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​

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?

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?

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.

I appreciate...

Transfer of Learning:

What are your thoughts, feelings and behaviours?

• 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?

• 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

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

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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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.

- 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