Resources
Welcome to the My Home Life Charity Resources Page
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A Guide to the My Home Life Charity Resources
What it can be used for: Deciding which resource to use, when.
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A Moment
What it can be used for: Encouraging engagement during discussions and meetings.
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A Place in the Fun
What it can be used for: Generating ideas that support connection and fun, between residents and staff, in care homes.
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A Way with Words
What it can be used for: Discussions around language we value, and language we
would like to use more.
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AEIOU
What it can be used for: Visual prompt to encourage a culture of noticing what one values, and saying it out loud.
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All About Me
What it can be used for: Relationship-building with new staff, and among teams.
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Appreciative Feedback
What it can be used for: Providing feedback for appreciation and growth.
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Be-Endy Resources
What it can be used for: Guiding choices of which My Home Life resources to use at the beginning and end of conversations.
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Beneath the Surface (Iceberg Tool)
What it can be used for: Reflecting on relationship-centred care, and finding out what matters.
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Bounce and Boost
What it can be used for: Reflecting and talking about building and boosting confidence.
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Breezy and Blustery
What it can be used for: Checking-in and inviting people to share about what has been breezy (flowed easily, felt comfy) and what has been blustery (a bit trickier, unsettling).
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Emotion Words and Emotional Touchpoints
What it can be used for: Exploring emotions with a varied emotional vocabulary.
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Engagement Buffet
What it can be used for: Planning and preparing to do engagement work in care home.
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From Our Chat Today
What it can be used for: Clarifying what people are hoping for, from a conversation.
View ResourceHuman Rights in Care Homes Reflection and Conversation Resources
What it can be used for: These exercises can be used prior to any training, meeting or workshop to start a conversation on the topic of human rights in social care and/or care homes.
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Improving Experience Template
What it can be used for: Recording the rationale, processes and outcomes of a practice improvement initiative.
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In the Know
What it can be used for: Recognising and naming what we’re proud to know, what we’re getting to know and what we don’t know yet.
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Insights into Me
What it can be used for: Creating an account of what the person values and cares about in their everyday life.
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Instant Delights
What it can be used for: Connecting with others through sharing something that has been a source of an ‘instant delight’.
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Key Card Questions
What it can be used for: Connecting with others, by sharing a little about ourselves.
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LIFE Sessions and Stories have Legs
What it can be used for: Learning and innovating from stories from
practice.
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Lingo of Connection
What it can be used for: Reflecting on and trying out some ideas related to connecting with people with later stage dementia.
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Lounging Around Sketchbook
What it can be used for: Supporting connection and engagement between residents and staff.
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My Home Life Frameworks
What they can be used for: Providing an overview of the evidence-based
frameworks which underpin My Home Life.
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My Home Life Recipe for Success
What it can be used for: Providing a structure for using Appreciative Inquiry in quality improvement initiatives.
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On The Look Out
What it can be used for: Stimulating our noticing of what we value, and encouraging us to share this out loud.
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Picture Knowing Me
What it can be used for: Connecting with others, by sharing a little about ourselves.
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Positive Inquiry Tool
What it can be used for: Acknowledging what is working well, and coming together to develop things further.
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Positive Practice Poster
What it can be used for: Facilitating conversations that celebrate and learn from positive practices.
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Pre Meeting Selfie
What it can be used for: Taking a snapshot of how you are before a meeting, and how you’d like to be in the meeting.
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QUeST
What it can be used for: Identifying qualities and strengths that we have, and ones we might like to develop.
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Reflections and Ripples
What it can be used for: Giving a framework for personal or group reflective practice.
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Resident wellbeing toolkit
What it can be used for: Promoting discussions, ideas and innovation around the topics 'Transition' (into care), 'Meaningful activities', 'Purpose, significance & achievement and 'a good ending'.
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Sense and Sensory Environment
What it can be used for: Creating a profile of how the person responds to different types of sensory stimuli.
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Steps To “Celebrating”
What it can be used for: Stepping into giving feedback that is authentic and specific.
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The Well
What it can be used for: Naming what has worked well, and crucially what helped this to happen.
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Visual Inquiry/ Images
What it can be used for: Tapping into describing experiences, emotion, insights and ideas.
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