Workshop Summary
This workshop gives participants a deep understanding of the practicalities involved in supporting someone to make a decision. We use case studies to cover:
- assessing the required level of support for decision making
- identifying supports and mapping a support network
- how to support someone to make decisions
- identifying the pros and cons of decisions
- how to spot biases and conflicts of interests
- the importance of having decision review mechanisms.
Learning Outcomes
Workshop participants will understand:
- how to build decision making capacity
- barriers to making decisions and how to overcome them
- the duty of care versus the dignity of risk
- how to use decision support tools to effectively support an individual to make a decision.
Target Audience
Any individual, volunteer, business or organisation wanting to enhance their client relationships.
Delivery Method
Workshops can take place over Zoom or on Microsoft Teams software.
In person workshops will take place at a location convenient to you, this might be your home, a health care setting, your workplace or a residential aged care home.
Workshop Fees
Each workshop is customised to meet the specific needs of the workshop participants. Our facilitators draw on their expertise and lived experience of disability to provide a practical, relatable and informative workshop experience. Workshops are on a fee for service basis.
Resources Supplied to Workshop Participants
Mapping a Support Network Factsheet
Me and My Decision Form
My Decision Making Worksheet
Dignity of Risk Infographic