Pictability Facilitator Training for Professionals

Pictability™: Planning done differently

A new way to plan and set goals

Unlike traditional planning methods typically led by professionals, Pictability™ puts families in the driver’s seat. Through playful exploration, families reconnect with what is truly important to them, their family and their child.

Pictability™ looks at the family as a whole. Research shows that parents often place all their energy into the child with a disability or delay. This is not sustainable in the long term and carers risk burnout and mental health challenges. The Pictability™ experience is designed to consider parents as an individual and their family as a whole. Children thrive when their family thrives.

The Pictability™ experience shines a light on a child’s abilities and strengths and helps families to focus on the things their child can do, opening the possibilities for a bright future. The experience provides a launching pad for the family to get started with achieving some of the goals which builds parenting efficacy. It also clarifies what goals the family will need professional help with thus providing a starting point for early intervention services.

A full toolkit comes with the program

The toolkit includes multiple cards and boards designed to support parents expanding on ideas to create deeper and more meaningful (ie developmental, social, learning) children goals as well as family and personal goals for themselves.

The Pictability™ visuals were co-designed with families to build capacity and inspire wellbeing and flourishing (Adler & Seligman, 2016) – informed by evidence about how parents used Individualised Funding to achieve their goals (Mahmic & Janson, 2018).

Train to become a Pictability™ Facilitator

Become a Pictability™ facilitator and support families to set a vision for their child, family and self with this awarding-winning, internationally acclaimed visioning tool that will inform your family-centred approach.

There are 3 modules to complete in order to become a Pictability™ Facilitator.

The sessions are delivered online, run by peer worker parents who have completed the Pictability™ Facilitator Training and are accredited to run the workshops. There are a maximum of 16 participants per workshop.

Cost: $540 per participant

We also deliver tailored programs for large organisations.
Please contact Eram eram@plumtree.org.au to discuss group discounts and alternative workshop times or express your interest in future dates

Module 1 (Two hours)

In this introductory session, ECI professionals will:

Be introduced to the PictabilityTM resource from a parent’s perspective to understand its value for families.

Module 2 (Three hours)

In this practical workshop, professionals will:

Learn about the theoretical foundations of Pictability.
Become familiar with the Pictability process.
Practice skills to facilitate their first Pictability session.

Module 3 (Three hours)

In this practical session under the guidance of a Pictability facilitator, you will be paired with another ECI Professional to:

Role-play your first Pictability session as facilitator and parent.
Reverse your roles to experience both perspectives.
Analyse your first facilitation experience.
Receive coaching from the Pictability facilitator.

Express your interest in this game-changing professional program

Pictability Facilitator Training

Module 1: Monday 17 February; 10am to 12pm AEST
Module 2: Monday 24 February; 10am to 12pm AEST
Module 3: Facilitator will contact you to schedule a date and time

‘I believe early intervention organisations have always valued building the capacity of families, but we should be prepared to develop new ways to do it in partnership with them. The outcome we all want is independent, happy young adults who have strong foundations to lead meaningful lives contributing to their communities. But they can’t get there themselves. The skills, knowledge and vision of their family is critical.’