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Social engineering as a context is obsolete –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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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.

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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