Ten Footsteps 2026, course 32
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.
Each session will be delivered by a team consisting of two facilitators with lived experience (we call them Lived Experience Trainers or LETs) alongside two facilitators who are health care practitioners with a special interest in pain.
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 short video animation ‘Tame The Beast’
How might you use this in practice?
3. Access the Health and Wellbeing Tool
Complete it online or as a printed copy of the PDF for a) yourself or b) with a person who lives with pain. The result will guide you or the person you are working with to different resources on the LWWP website.
This is an invaluable tool as Step 3 and 4 shares what the person sees their priorities at the current time.
It also informs you and the person you are working with of level of the severity of the impact of the pain on their health and wellbeing. The severity of the level impact is mild, moderate or severe. It helps to know if the person has severe health impact of pain, as it means this person is likely to need extra specialist input.
Based on WHO criteria, this tool is also useful for data collection and outcome measurement, pre- and post-intervention, or in service evaluation e.g. Pain Cafés or Pain Management Programmes.
4. Find and download the ‘Pain Cycle / Self-Care Cycle’
Have you used this, can you try it out before the first session?
5. A visual tool that that can be used instead of the Pain Cycle, is ‘Pain is like an iceberg’
Can you find it on the website, and try it out before or after the session?
We will revisit these resources and tools in the first session. We will see which have been used, what was helpful, and what challenges you faced using them.
Doing this ahead of Session One will allow you to get the most out of 10 Footsteps Training and will be covered again in the session. Any concerns or problems please get in touch with Claire Packwood on: lwwp.training@gmail.com
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: Tuesday 27 October 2026, 09.30 - 13.00
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Session 2: Tuesday 3 November 2026, 09.30 - 13.00
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Session 3: Tuesday 10 November 2026, 09.30 - 13.00
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Recordings and resources
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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