Module Six:Introduction to S.E.L.F.
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Treatment Planning Conferences
Trying to transform a nonlinear system using a linear model just
doesn’t work.
Jeffrey Goldstein, 1994The Unshackled Organization
DOES SYSTEMIC CHANGE WORK?
Around the world a full 70% of change efforts in companies fail
How many change efforts directed at the children will fail?
Change efforts are usually based on social engineering
Surfing the Edge of Chaos - Pascale, Millemann, Gioja, p.6
SOCIAL ENGINEERING PREMISES
Leader as head, Organizations as body: intelligence is centralized near the top
Premise of predictable change: assumes predictability and control during time span of change effort
Assumption of cascading intention: initiative defined, is communicated and rolled out.
Surfing the Edge of Chaos - Pascale, Millemann, Gioja, p.6
Social engineering as a context is obsolete –
Period.
“Living Systems” isn’t a metaphor for how human institutions operate.
It’s the way it is.
Surfing the Edge of Chaos - Pascale, Millemann, Gioja
S.E.L.F.
Safety
Emotion
Loss
Future
THERE ARE FOUR KINDS OF SAFETY:
• Your body is safe from physical harmPhysical safety:
• You are safe with yourselfPsychological safety:
• You are safe with other peopleSocial safety:
• You and other people in your community are safe and consistent with your conscience, beliefs, values
Moral /ethical safety:
PHYSICAL SAFETYNo violence to others in any form: physical, emotional, verbal, or sexual
Absence of suicidality / self-destructive behavior
Absence of substance abuse
Healthy, safe, relational sexual behavior
Avoidance of risk-taking behavior
Good health practices
Healthy, nonviolent disciplinary practices
PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY
Self-protection
Self-knowledge
Self-efficacy
Self-esteem
Self-empowerment
Self-control
Self-discipline
SOCIAL SAFETY
Safe attachments
Safety in the group
Exercise of responsible authority
Social responsibility
MORAL SAFETY(“Everything I Ever Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten” by Robert
Fulghum)Share everythingPlay fairDon't hit peoplePut things back where you found themClean up your own messDon't take things that aren't yoursSay you're sorry when you hurt somebodyWash your hands before you eatFlush
EMOTIONS
Giving words for feelings: Mad, Sad, Scared, Glad, Shamed
Neither expressing nor suppressing, but managing
Trading in actions for words
LOSS
Grieving
Saying goodbye
Refraining from Reenactment
Moving on
FUTURE
Changing trajectories
New attractors
Different choices
Imagination
Vision
A way of organizing complexity
Dynamic and nonlinear
Phases you move in and out of, not
stages you climb
An accessible language
Gets everyone on the same page
Applicable to children, adults,
families, staff and organization
S.E.L.F.
PRACTICE
Scavenger Hunt!
DISCUSSION
• Still need the SELF practice slides
SAFETY
Clients learn to care for themselves and others
Clients learn how to name what they feel and handle it without hurting themselves or others.
Clients learn to accept change and loss and how to say goodbye to people/places/things they care about
Clients learn to first imagine and then create a different futrure outcome for themselves
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S.E.L.F. TREATMENT PLANNING CONFERENCE
WHAT IS IT?
A time to measure client progress and
treatment.
A way to evaluate goals, struggles and progress
by organizing this information into the categories of safety,
emotion management, loss and future.
Non-hierarchical encourages discussion
and collaboration between team members,
including clients and families, rather than a
rote reporting or reading from reports
SELF Rx Plannng
“What happened to you?” instead of “What’s wrong with you?”
More time for the solution than the problem.
All attendees are expected to participate in giving information and posing questions.
S.E.L.F. TREATMENT PLANNING CONFERENCEHOW DO YOU RUN ONE?
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SAFETY
RECENT SUCCESSES
• Client successes:• Family successes• Staff successes
PRESENT CHALLENGES
• Past unsafe events impacting present, transitioning, home visits,
• use of student support• health issues,• destructive, aggressive behaviors • Bullying and victimization, • ability to trust staff and peers, boundary issues.
GOALS• Client commits to: • Family commits to: • Staff commits
S.E.L.F. TREATMENT PLANNING CONFERENCE
EMOTIONS
RECENT SUCCESSES
• Client successes:• Family successes• Staff successes
PRESENT CHALLENGES
• Recognizing and naming feelings, • identifying and using coping skills, • identifying triggers, • ability to read social cues, re-enactments. .
GOALS• Client commits to: • Family commits to: • Staff commits
S.E.L.F. TREATMENT PLANNING CONFERENCE
LOSS
RECENT SUCCESSES
• Client successes:• Family successes• Staff successes
PRESENT CHALLENGES
• Ability to talk about losses or changes, • ability to anticipate impending losses, • ability to deal with change constructively, • past losses impacting present. . .
GOALS• Client commits to: • Family commits to: • Staff commits
S.E.L.F. TREATMENT PLANNING CONFERENCE
FUTURE
RECENT SUCCESSES
• Client successes:• Family successes• Staff successes
PRESENT CHALLENGES
• Learned helplessness • academic progress, • ability to care for self and others• ability to talk about aftercare plans • ability to express strengths and resources• ability to participate in community service .
GOALS• Client commits to: • Family commits to: • Staff commits
LET’S PRACTICE!
Safety
Emotion
Loss
Future
BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE
Mohandas Gandhi