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"There is no use trying," said Alice; "One can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as much as six impossible things before breakfast." Lewis Carroll
9:30 - Registration and Refreshments10:00 - Introductions and Overview
10:30 - Thinking Differently about Problems: "Believing Impossible Things"
- Thinking outside the box
- You can effect change because
- You are a professional
- You have skills, knowledge, experience and resources
- You have discretionary power
- Any problems can be made just a little better with
- An inquiring and discerning mind - Willingness to think outside the box, knowing how and when to ask questions, using your own common sense
- A little help from my friends - Know your resources, working with others to knock down the brick wall,
- Empathy, genuineness, and respect - honesty and full disclosure, assertiveness vs. aggressiveness
- Commitment to action and change.
11:00 - Break
11:15 - Fun and Games
- Perspective - It’s all how you look at it
- Change - the first big problem
12:00 - Lunch
12:30 - Thinking Differently about Resources
Interviews and Introductions: Using your "inquiring and discerning mind" and identifying resources available with "a little help from my friends".1:30 - Thinking Differently about Relationships
- Communicating with Professionals
- Foster Families and Leadership
- Getting to Yes: Defining your BATNA and Separating the person from the problem
2:00- Thinking Differently About Possibilities
- Building and Using the LINK Family Network - Commitment to Action
- Suggestions for networking - local and regional
- Commitment to action
- Foster Parent Survey
- LINK commitment forms
2:30 - Adjourn
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