Dignity of Risk
The Right to Failure
Dignity of Risk
Emphasis is placed on two concepts:
• Personal choice
• Self-determination
Personal Choice
Autonomy
Informed
Planned risks
Every Choice…
Learned Helplessness is:
• debilitating
• disabling
• disheartening
• disrespectful
Choice and taking chances
Increases hope
Enhances self-esteem
Enhances self-respect
Empowers
Dignity of Risk
• Right to make one’s own choices
• To be supported based on individual choice and
preference
Informed choice
Experience life
Take advantage of opportunities
To learn
Develop competencies
Independence
Take calculated risks
Dignity of risk can be understood as a human right
Living life
E = Education
E = Exploration
E = Experience
Life means taking risks
Job Search
Relationships
Daily
Leisure
Entertainment
Fear:
• of the unknown
• of legal ramifications
• of failure
Support people through any failure.
Operational:
• systems
Promote self advocacy
Time
• quicker and easier
Collaboration
Environments
• group homes
• institutions
Ensure appropriate accommodation and support
exists
Traditional approaches
•
Uniformity
•
Consistency
•
Task specialization
•
Hierarchy of authority
•
Compliance with process
Today
• Tolerance for ambiguity
• Less direct control
• New and better people skills
• Change as the constant
Discovering What Really Matters
Listening
Observing
Asking
Discovering
Almost everything - except telling -
Work with the person to understand what is important
to them and provide & assist them with the means and
the skills to make informed choices.
Overprotection can keep people from becoming all
they could become.
Many of our best achievements came the hard way:
We took risks, fell flat, suffered, picked ourselves up,
and tried again.
Sometimes we made it and sometimes we did not.
Even so, we were given the chance to try.”
(Perske, 1972:24) Perske, R. 1972.
Change
Inspires
us.
“Quality is a
continuous journey,
it’s not a destination.
-Jeff Pederson, CHI Friendship
People
Define
us.