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Ten Footsteps 2024, course 21
Before the course
- Welcome to the course
- Pre-course preparation
- Pre-course evaluation
During the course
- Session dates and links
- Recordings and resources
- Session slides
- Written reflection
Post-course information
- Accreditation
- Post-course evaluation
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Welcome to the course
Welcome to the Ten Footsteps training programme from Live Well with Pain.
This training will focus on helping you to gain more knowledge and skills to support people with persistent pain. It covers ways to support self management of this long-term health condition with more confidence, using a wider range of resources, tools and skills.
We hope you’ll find the sessions interesting and fun. The course is a co-production of practitioners together with people who live with persistent pain, co-delivering.
Your course facilitators are:
Diarmuid Denneny and Rachel Stovell
Printed guides to offer the people you’re supporting
With the increased confidence and skills you’ll develop through the training, you’ll want to get to work encouraging your patients or clients to adopt a self-management approach to their persistent pain.
Live Well with Pain’s printed booklets are the ideal aid for practitioners to use in their consultations.
Based on the acclaimed ‘ten footsteps’ approach, they cover many of the main topics you’ll have learned in your training. There are guides on Pacing, Sleep, Goal Setting and even one that gives an overview of all Ten Footsteps.
Giving your patient or client a booklet to take away with them following a consultation is a simple but effective way to reinforce your self-management messages.
These professionally produced booklets can be ordered in short runs of as little as 50 copies. And because they are printed ‘on-demand’, they are not only cost-effective, they can be with you in as little as a week. So you can get started guiding your patients or clients on their self-management journey.
Pre-course preparation
1. Familiarise yourself with Live Well with Pain
As part of your pre-course preparation please ensure you have explored our website.
The practitioners’ guide to the Ten Footsteps is a good place to start, as it takes you through the ten footsteps around which your training will be structured.
Next, explore the approach used by Live Well with Pain, which is based on the Five Areas CBT person centred model.
This website also has a wide range of self-management resources. Have a look at the downloads that you can share with the people you are supporting, and visit the skills and knowledge section to see the kinds of techniques that you’ll be able to explore in more depth during the training course.
2. Watch this one video
This is one video that may change your thinking on pain.
Watch from 33 minutes to around 45 minutes. Of course, you can watch some more and learn even more! It is fun too!
Did it change your thinking on pain? And if so, why did it change it?
3. Reflective Practice
The training is designed to help you use new knowledge and skills to guide every day self-management practice.
It is therefore helpful if, before the course, you are able to reflect on some of your own experiences of working with people with persistent pain so that you can share some of these examples during the training sessions.
It may help to think about these four aspects of your clinical / work experiences:
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What approaches or strategies have you found work well?
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What aspects of supporting people with pain management have you found challenging?
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What are common barriers stopping people with chronic pain engaging in self-management?
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What kinds of support are you finding that people with chronic pain need?
4. Explore the Footsteps Festival
Footsteps Festival is an ongoing web-based festival that is building into a really useful resource of recorded social prescribing events and activities.
Footsteps Festival was developed by Live Well with Pain during the COVID lockdowns, as a way of bringing togther people with lived experience of pain, clinicians, health coaches, researchers and many others. It offers a different, creative take on managing pain.
Explore the Festival
5. Further (non-essential) reading
Live Well with Pain has compiled a list of trusted publications that have proved useful in helping people to understand and self manage their pain.
Explore the publications
Pre-course evaluation
Before beginning the training, we ask all participants to complete a brief online self-assessment of your knowledge and skills.
This will help you be clear about your learning needs and plans for the Ten Footsteps training. It will also help us ensure the training is focused on participants’ needs.
You may also find it useful to make a note of your two stronger skills and two of your weaker skills areas to guide your goals for learning!
Pre-course evaluation
Session dates and links
Session 1: Wednesday 20 November 2024, 9.30am – 1.30pm
Meeting ID: 989 7793 5956
Passcode: 838713
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Session 2: Wednesday 4 December 2024, 9.30am – 1.30pm
Meeting ID: 962 3720 8187
Passcode: 036258
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Session 3: Wednesday 18 December 2024, 9.30am – 1.30pm
Meeting ID: 910 0771 0065
Passcode: 308521
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Recordings and resources
Session 1
Session 1
Please note, this recording ends at the final break, around 12.20
Here are the resources introduced in session 1:
The Pain and Self Care Cycles
Exploring the Pain Cycle with the person you are supporting can help them recognise how pain can affect different aspects of their life in negative and self-reinforcing ways.
Also included is its companion diagram, the Self Care Cycle, which shows the positive outcomes of adopting a range of self-management approaches to undo or limit the impact of pain.
Live Well with Pain Health and Wellbeing Check tool
The Live Well with Pain Health and Well Being Check tool is a self-completion, person-centred tool that can be shared easily with patients and clients.
The data from this completed tool will help identify the actual current impact of chronic pain on the individual and their health.
You can find a more detailed explanation of the Live Well with Pain Health and Well Being Check tool here.
Pain is like an iceberg
Persistent pain is like an iceberg – there’s so much more to it beneath the surface. Use this sheet with your patient to explore how pain impacts many different areas of their life – areas that could be addressed using self management strategies.
Pain and the Brain
Many people have a very simple, even simplistic, way of thinking about how and why pain occurs. While this works fine in many day-to-day situations, it falls down when trying to understand persistent pain.
This A4 sheet has been designed to use in consultations with your patient, to help them think about the many factors that are contributing to their experience of persistent pain.
Your journey with pain
People living with pain can self-complete this booklet. It uses the metaphor of a bus journey and is a great way for people to start on their journey of acceptance and where they want to focus their lives despite the pain.
A bus journey
The Bus Journey tool is a metaphor tool that can help people understand pain is part of them and their life at present. This is about learning ways to self manage pain by:
- Letting the person decide where they want to put the pain on their bus now, rather than in the driving seat or at the steering wheel.
- Supporting the person to decide what is the new direction of the bus journey, its route, new stops and which passengers they want on the bus from their family, friends and clinical team, social prescribers etc.
- Helping them set rewarding, paced goals and focus on their priorities for change.
Session slides
View session 1 slides
Written reflection
As part of your learning we encourage reflection on your practise. To help with this we have created a form which you can complete online, here:
Complete your reflection
Please complete the form with:
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a reflection about an encounter when it was difficult to support somebody with self management
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a reflection about an encounter when you used your skills in supporting self-management successfully
If you would like to keep a copy of your responses please save the PDF that you see when you submit.
Accreditation
Once you have completed your course, you will be able to obtain a Certificate of Attendance from the Personalised Care Institute (PCI). This is worth 12 CPD points.
After the third and final session, we will email you a link to create an account with the PCI, so that you can obtain your certificate.
Post-course evaluation
As part of our continued accreditation with the Personalised Care Institute, all course participants are asked to complete a post-course evaluation.
You can complete this online, here:
Post-course evaluation