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Welcome to the first edition of WOW Now, Wellbeing Our Way’s e-newsletter. You are receiving this newsletter due to your interest in Wellbeing Our Way or your leadership role in developing approaches which enable people to live well with their long term health needs.
This edition focuses on care and support planning and using coaching techniques to enable people to live well, in ways which matter to them. This follows our recent POW WOW (shared learning workshop) on the same theme.
I hope you find the contributions inspiring and informative – Sam and Anya’s blog reflects on the transformative potential of health coaching for people with long term health needs and Macmillan have shared a case study detailing their electronic Holistic Needs Assessment (eHNA). There are links to useful resources and profiles introducing you to some of the people involved with Wellbeing Our Way.
It’s heartening to meet many of you with such a commitment to developing meaningful partnerships between people with long term health needs and those working to support them. Please do feel free to join us at one of our upcoming POW WOWs or get in touch to share examples of your great work in future editions of WOW Now.
I’m very much looking forward to continuing working with you to develop ways in which we can most effectively enable people to live well, in the ways which matter to them.
Best wishes,
Natalie Koussa
Programme Lead – Wellbeing Our Way
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POW WOWs
Wellbeing Our Way is hosting a series of POW WOWs (shared learning workshops) which are based around approaches that enable people to live well with their long term health needs – for instance, peer support, supported self-management and person centred helplines and information.
The POW WOWs bring together people working in charities and those with lived experience to develop approaches which enable people to live well. They are a great opportunity for shared learning between staff and volunteers who are working directly with people with long term health needs, as well as those who are developing these approaches.
Our first POW WOW took place on 31 March. The session focused on care and support planning and coaching techniques. Many thanks to all those who joined us, especially our inspiring facilitators:
You can see the highlights and key messages from the workshop at #WOWhealth.
During the workshop, we discussed ideas for developing care and support planning and coaching approaches to enable people with long term health needs to live well. We are at the initial stages of scoping how the emerging community of interest can best develop these approaches within voluntary and community organisations.
If you would like to find out more, share examples of your practice in this area, or get involved in the Care and Support Planning community of interest, please get in touch with Natalie.
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Care and Support Planning POW WOW on 31 March.
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Upcoming POW WOWs:
We have an exciting series of POW WOWs for the remainder of the year, including:
- 27 May - Developing Peer support approaches to support people to live well with their health condition(s).
- 23 June - Demonstrating impact – developing a theory of change to demonstrate the difference your organisation is making.
- 26 August - Self-management support, with particular attention to meeting the needs of young people and meeting the needs of people whose capacity is changing (such as those with neurological conditions)
- 14 October - Developing person-centred information and helplines
- 11 November – Enabling people to influence
Read more and register here. We will confirm places as soon as we are able.
If you are a person with lived experience who would like to attend one of the POW WOWs, please see our Reward and Recognition policy for details of travel expenses and fees available.
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WOW How
WOW How is a regular feature which highlights some of the great work already existing within the community and voluntary sector.
’Even now treatment has finished, I still require physical and psychological support, which has been highlighted and demonstrated by the Holistic Needs Assessment.’
In this edition, Amanda Watson shares Macmillan’s approach to electronic Holistic Needs Assessments (eHNA) . This approach uses an electronic questionnaire as a starting point for a person living with cancer (or other long term health needs) and those supporting them to develop a care and support plan based on the person’s own priorities for their life. Click here to read more about Macmillan's approach and its progress so far.
For more information about the eHNA, please feel free to get in touch with Amanda Watson (eHNA Implementation Project Manager) or the eHNA team.
If you would like to share an example of promising practice for inclusion in future editions, please get in touch with Natalie. We would be particularly interested in examples around peer support or ways in which organisations are demonstrating the impact of their work.
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Meet the Steering Group
Barbara Babcock is Chair of the Transverse Myelitis Society and a member of Wellbeing Our Way’s steering group. Here is a sneak preview of her profile.
What sparked your interest in getting involved with Wellbeing Our Way?
When I read Wellbeing Our Way's programme objectives, I immediately saw an alignment between my professional skillset (as a life coach and adult learning specialist) and how we at the Transverse Myelitis Society empower our members with the information and support they need to self-manage their condition so that they experience a good quality of life. I wanted to get involved to share best practice and learn from others.
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