- A Life Vision is a positive depiction of the future based on imagining how life could potentially unfurl. It entails thinking about a number of dimensions such as: housing, relationships, hobbies, what generates positive emotional well-being, work, housing, spirituality, meaning, friendships, and life goals.
- This entails engaging in a form of mindfulness to picture the future and then inhabit its contours by tasting, visualising, smelling, touching, and hearing what life could be like within it.
- From the vision the steps to achieving it need to be broken down into bite sized chunks which can be achieved, where the individual is affirmed to build their belief along with their self-confidence.
- A life vision can only form after constructing a safe secure ecological environment; where a person-centred approach is devised to generate emotional recovery, undertaken with young people aged 10-17.
- The therapeutic interventions require weaving a web of continuous support, where a practitioners positive practice entails spinning a framework to generate positivity. This is composed of colleagues, families, communities, and skilled professionals, all working together for the common good of the young person.
- A psychologically informed environment also focuses on overcoming adverse traumatic experiences to devise a sense of positivity by enhancing the young person’s strengths by validating the negativity that exists in the path. This means drawing upon various therapeutic insights to think about how to work together to enhance their life vision.
- It also means challenging therapeutic nihilism along with labelling whilst overcoming any elements of vicarious trauma, all undertaken by providing ongoing support to colleagues. Each practitioner works together in reflecting on best practice in order to sustain positivity and generate hope.
- The PIE approach entails seeing the home as a container where the practitioners constantly innovate whilst delivering best practice. All of this is delivered by engaging in praxis: theory, action enwrapped within an ongoing reflection.
- Throughout their life journey young people are supported to work through the various psycho-social emotional stages of growth. It means that the practitioners need to be aware of where the young people are situated in the present plus what is required to move forward to self-actualise.
- By building on a young person’s strengths, the aim is to encourage young people to develop their hobbies along with their interests and think about how they can sustain themselves within positive social networks in the future.
- By supporting young people to move towards self-actualisation the idea is that they work to build towards positivity and emotional growth and work towards their aims whilst enhancing their well-being.
We are a young person’s organisation that believes
healthy relationships are the treatment
healthy relationships are the treatment