Category: Blog|Person Centered Approaches

My Person-Centered Thinking Mentoring Journey with HSA

I have been a Person-Centered Thinking Trainer since June 2020. Since then, I have had the opportunity to share the principles of Person-Centered Thinking with others through delivering and providing… Read more »

Grateful Musings of a PCT Mentor Trainer

Over the past year as a Person-Centered Thinking Mentor I have had the great honor of working with 10 of the most incredibly dedicated and talented people on their journey… Read more »

The Relationship Map creating pathways for trust, connection and compassion

A couple of weeks ago, I had my first opportunity to participate in a Person Centered Thinking (PCT) training, delivered in person. One of the exercises we work through together… Read more »

Springtime Reconnection through Community Mapping

As I sit writing this, we are enjoying a very unseasonably warm early-spring day. It is a gorgeous 76*F, and the sun is brightly shining. The sights, sounds, and scents… Read more »

Future Care Planning- Helpful tips to get you started

“My son is going to turn 18 next week. I’m just trying to look ahead to the future. His sisters are in college, so we are always discussing with them… Read more »

NCAPPS 2/22/22 Webinar Announcement!

National Center for Advancing Person-Centered Practices and Systems is excited to announce this webinar about person-centered decision making in healthcare and care at end of life. Featuring panelists Diane Coleman,… Read more »

Living Well and Planning for the end of your life

Living Well is a person-centered approach to supporting people to live well with a long-term condition. It also provides a structure to help people think about and plan for the… Read more »

Person-Centered Thinking: End of Life

A range of person-centered thinking tools focused on the end of life. This includes: relationship circles; sorting important to/for; good days and bad days; sorting what’s working/not working; “if I… Read more »

How do I want my life to be?

Planning Live- A Whole New Approach We are all used to answering typical, surface, get – to – know- you questions whether we are filling out job applications, trying to… Read more »

I Am…

Recently my son came home and needed help finishing a homework assignment. He was being asked to write a poem (ugh! From him) with the title “I Am.” As I… Read more »