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We are onto WEEK-4 of the OPC Curious Minds Quest and the curious minds are continuing to excel at being brilliantly insightful in their quest to explore, learn and integrate all things OPC.

But before we jump into it, here's a snippet or two from week-3 to inspire us all:

"So, using an OPC mindset with a family recently around obtaining equipment for a child - it felt so good to sit back and allow the mother of the child to tell me what her preferences were. We sat together and looked at various options online, spoke about the ideal versus the doable and sent her home to 'shop' on her own to decide. She returned the following session with a decision which we both agreed upon and she felt good about. It's a great starting point now, heading into the clinic and ordering processes, which we all know are cumbersome and lengthy (at least in the US) - as I'm fairly certain usage at home will be greater with mom empowered as a lead in the process. Truthfully, I believe I have always tried quite hard to elicit parents' input into equipment choices; however, really allowing them to be more of a lead is a wonderful shift. I feel at times parents obtain equipment because they feel pressured by the medical community to do the best they can for their child but are not given the opportunity to think about if and how they will use it.

Kathy Volkman

"curious question for this week: are there times during episodes of care when it's more 'worth' spending more time talking. if you have limitations in time and if you're there specifically do be doing hands on therapy when would you be prioritising using the OPC approach? introduction (or not!) of equipment, transition from primary to secondary education as examples?

Stacie Ahern

Beautiful insights, reflections and nuggets for us all to digest - Thank You!

The competition is heating up, but our top 3 are continuing to hold their lead! Which if you're the competitive type then you'll be want to know that you get the most points for curious questions!

Top-3 Leader Board Results

But this might be a good time to also remind everyone who hasn't yet added to the conversation that each point is an entry into the draw, so you can still participate even though these 3 ladies are crushing it 😉

You're not behind!

You don't need to catch up!

Just jump right in this week and grab yourself some nuggets and an entry or two into the cash prize draw!

Why wouldn't you? Click HERE

This week we are onto Spotlights 7 & Laser Coaching 1

Topics Covered:

• Shifting goals from tasks to value based goals
• The value of maintaining hope
• Celebrating achievements along the way
• Meaning focused conversations as therapy in and of themselves
• Identifying coaching principles.
• Open-ended questions.
• Using visualization and its role in goal achievement.
• Breaking up the 'talk' session with physical practice of physical goals.
• To note-taking or not to note-take during the session?
• Using props or visual aids, such as a storyboard
• Using a goal, plan, do, and check approach (Co-Op)
• The significance of clarity in goal-setting and identifying specific steps
• Engaging in real-life situations to evaluate and refine goals around skills.

(Did you know you can listen to these offline using your usual apple or google's podcast player?)

Want to join in the fun?

All the instructions are below - we are waiting for you!

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OPC Quest for Curious Minds

This where you go from thinking about wanting brush up on your clinical skills - to taking those little, consistent actions that actually move you forwards.

One awesome nugget at a time!

One awesome action at a time!

One awesome curious question at a time!

The BIG prize of course is your confidence and growth, and the value that brings to the kids and families you work with,

but who doesn't love a little cash to throw around at some continued education courses too? So to sweeten the deal and get your competitive engine revving, each action you take gets you an entry into the big draw for a

$250.00 cash prize

and a few spot prizes thrown in just for fun.

Instructions

1 - Share a Nugget: Each week we will be focusing on one or two past activities. This week we start with the spotlights.

• Spotlight 7: Aspirations, Hope and Reality
• Laser Coaching 1: Dancing with Goals

Share Your Favorite Nugget Here

You don't' have to do it all, but do one thing.

Squiz through the spotlight resources, watch the video, listen to the podcast, read the transcript.

2 - Take the Challenge and Reflect: This weeks challenge is the same as last week because it's a hard thing to do but it is worth it! Dive deeper into the content by taking the challenge for double entries into the draw. This week's challenge is to record a snippet of a conversation with a parent or two then watch it back and reflect on what went well, what you might like to try differently next time.

Share Your Reflection Here!

Did you predominantly use open ended questions?

Did you make space for the parent to problem solve before offering solutions?

What questions came up for you?

3 - Ask a Curious Question: Curious questions are our highest value here in The Wired Collective. So for an impressive triple entry into the draw, add a curious question this week. It can be about the two spotlights we are covering, or any other question that's come up for you about coaching, goal setting and OPC that you would like us to dig into in our wrap-up Q&A with Dr. Fi Graham in February.

Ask Your Curious Question Here!

This is your chance to spark a thought-provoking discussion.

The OPC Quest for Curious Minds is not just an opportunity to win a valuable continued education voucher, but it's also a chance to deepen your understanding, connect with amazing members, and improve your clinical practice.

What's not to get excited about?

Logistics

1. Notifications: You'll want to make sure your notification settings are correct so that you don't miss out on the nuggets, insights and questions, and you also don't get too many notifications that clog your inbox. Head over to your profile and check you are happy with your notification settings HERE. You can choose from hourly, daily, weekly notifications - or none - but that would be pretty sad🙃
2. Prize Draw: We will do the Prize Draw at our Big Wrap-Up Q&A with Dr Fi Graham in February. You can check times and grab a seat HERE. Any comment you add as part of the challenge over this week gets you entries into the draw. You don't need to have completed all of them, but the more you complete, the more your chances (and your awesomeness) grow.
3. Navigating the challenge: The challenge is being hosted in the community forum on The Wired Collective Dashboard. There are 3 posts where you can add your comments. Add your nuggets in the nugget post, your reflection in the reflection post, and your question in the question post - you get the idea right 😊

The Community forum can be accessed from your side menu in the dashboard, or click any of the buttons in the instructions above to jump directly to the post.

That's it - let's play!

Have a wonderful week!

Mindy

PS - having trouble accessing the podcast or anything else? Just hit reply to this email so I can help.