Tips for During the Scenario

Question 1

What is the aim of this scenario task?

Answer 1

To demonstrate your group skills - how you “work the group” and your interpersonal skills.

As we are operating in such a diverse environment, it is critical that you can build rapport and interacting across people of any kind, demonstrating empathy and warmth to put others at ease in their presence, in order to build trust and facilitate open and productive relationships.

The session aims to:
• To provoke participants to think about their own wellbeing system.
• To facilitate the participants’ understanding of, Te Whare Tapa Wha through the presentation of a formulation diagram. Facilitate a conversation about Whanau health.

Question 2

What the form says they’re looking for

Answer 2

Introduce yourself and the model
• Get participants to consider the model
• Elicit awareness of the participant’s relationships and how they affect other areas of their wellbeing
• Explore the importance between whanau health and how it interacts with other parts of the model.
• Elicit the recognition/understanding that all parts of Te Whare Tapa are linked to wellbeing.
• Explore the important link between relationship health and how they affect other areas of wellbeing,

We will be assessing your ability to interact with the people in our care.

Question 3

How to conduct the session

Answer 3

If you can be interactive, try and get the group involved either by moving around, using the whiteboard or an exercise they can all participate in.

Use an introduction question such as “ What sort of lifestyle changes do you think you might need to make for the future?” and “in what areas of our lives?” (get examples for each area)
Then point out that this looks like lifestyle balance – then say something around what you are focusing on for this session….

Put the Te Whare Tapa Wha concept/model on the whiteboard or and ask who knows what it is. Have a discussion brief about each taha and elicit a couple of examples for each area.

Then do the chair exercise to help them understand when things get unbalance (its likely to be on google). Followed by examples that may contribute to unbalanced life style.

Question 4

Things to be aware of

Answer 4

Include all group members

there is likely to be a vocal individual ( try not let them dominate, acknowledge their contribution and then shut down: e.g. Thanks for sharing your ideas ….its been very helpful, how about we hear from…..)

and a quite individual (try and draw this one in, get them to share an idea/example or their understanding. If you can remember their background story use this)

Watch out for anti-social and/or interfering behaviour.

This could be anything from having side conversations, to unhelpful gang examples, only wanting or using a certain colour pen, getting up and moving around.

Be transparent comment on what you are observing, refer back to the group Kawa which you would have developed earlier and discuss it with the group, hopefully find a solution around how they can focus/engage in the session.

Question 5

An exercise to use

Answer 5

Ask each person to think of one thing they’ve done recently to feel good or strengthen their whare.

Ask them to think about the area of the whare it relates to the most (it may relate to more than one) and come up to write on the class whare, near that area (inside or outside the whare is okay). Add one yourself too!

Congratulate them for doing these things to look after their wellbeing.

Ask if any areas seem stronger than others based on this first round.