Hey ,

This email is a day late. If you're a details person, you would have noticed that I normally send out an email on a NZ early Tuesday morning, which equates to sometime on a Monday in most other parts of the world - so apologies if you were searching your inbox for it - I sure hope you were because you missed me 😄!!

I could make up a whole lot of excuses about why this emails a day late, but the truth is I just couldn't decide how best to wrap up our OPC spotlight in a way that was useful to you, challenging enough to be interesting, but not too challenging that it felt like a chore. It's always fun to reflect back on what we've learned along the way and it's well worth celebrating because we do tend to forget where we've come from and not give ourselves enough credit for how much we've absorbed over these past few months of digging into OPC.

So after much thinking about how to grab your attention in your busy inbox and get you get curious enough to take the quiz I've come up with a plan (possibly the long rambley intro has not helped!!)

I've started the quiz in this email so you can run through the questions quickly. This will both remind you of topic and techniques we've covered, and get you thinking about the answers.

Then - if you're remotely competitive or an A-type personality (that would put you in with 90% of Wired Collective members), I'm hoping you will click through to check your answers and score your self. I'm curious to see if this little experiment of mine works 😉

Here we go...

Take The OPC Test

Take the Quiz

Preview...

1. Define Occupation in the context of OPC?

2. Why is paraphrasing not recommended in OPC?

3. Which of these is the key question to ask in relation to goal setting?

  A) What are your goals for your child’s future?

  B) How can we fix the issue you're facing right now?

  C) What is most important to you at this moment?

  D) Can you prioritize your goals based on urgency?

4. What's a good strategy to manage conflicting goals between parents and their children?

5. Parents who are highly driven to support their child’s development are great partners for therapists, but what do we need to be mindful of?

6. In OPC, what is emphasized as fundamental to effective coaching?

  A) Avoiding traditional hands-on therapy

  B) A primary focus on goals

  C) Open, curious, and client-centered mindsets

  D) Being careful to not offer solutions

7. Can you list 10 signs that a coaching session is going well?

8. How would you use OPC around equipment provision conversations?

9. Before you give advice or solutions you should pause and notice ____ ___ ________ ____, and check in that this is what the client is looking for.

10. OPC goals should be

   A) task-oriented goals

   B) Participation-based goals

   C) Value-based goals

   D) Outcome-focused goal

11. According to Dr. Fi Graham, what is the significance of maintaining hope in therapy?

   A) It creates a sense of false hope which is counterproductive and should be avoided

   B) It is essential for the therapeutic process and should be nurtured

   C) It is irrelevant to therapy outcomes

   D) It is detrimental to honest conversations about prognosis

12. How can you support the conversation when parents have unrealistic goals, such as expecting a child to walk when they have significant mobility limitations?

13. In relationship-focused therapy at the Wise Table, Jaqui Barfoot described an arc of therapy. What were the 3 components of the arc?

14. When a parent is stressed we can expect to see the parent being more _________ and having less ___________ __________

15.  How can you help parents interpret delayed or different social cues

16. How can we support children to be more active and take ownership in setting goals

Take the Quiz

I can't wait to see what your score is!

Warm regards,

Mindy

PS - I've been prepping for Kelly's interview and I'd love to know what you'd love to know. Hit reply to this email if you've got interoception questions.