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On-site articles
This small section of the web site is dedicated to on-site articles, stories and essays:
Please feel free to write and submit something yourself.
I would like this site to include articles, stories and essays that are long or short, formal or informal, complicated or simple. They will be included if I feel they make a useful contribution.
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Circles of Support - an introduction [pdf file]
by Robert Weetman
This document introduces circles of support (also known as circles of friends).
It explains what a circle is, how it comes to exist, and links circles to person
centred planning. It is available as a pdf file or, on the Capacity Thinking
web site (www.capacitythinking.org.uk) as a normal web page.
You're looking good - have you lost weight?
by Robert Weetman
This article suggests that some very common conversations might not be so harmless
as they seem.
Catching trains
by Robert Weetman
This article takes a simple example of majority behaviour inconveniencing
a minority - in catching trains - as a starting point in considering bigger
questions.
Getting Support Right - planning support in person centred ways (pdf file)
The support and care services are awash with planning processes, and discussions over the best approach abound. Organisations often try to "roll out" something that they see as a replacement for the old ways of working. If only it were that simple.
About Me booklets (pdf file)
Notes about producing a booklet about a person (or for yourself) as part of person centred planning.