Doing Our Best Work: 10 Ingredients of Quality Support

Doing Our Best Work: 10 Ingredients of Quality Support

In this 17-minute video, Peter looks at ten essential components of quality direct support. A video for training and discussion with people providing or coordinating direct support, Doing Our Best work is based on a workshop Peter offers, and its production was supported by the New Hampshire Council on Developmental Disabilities ( www.nhddc.org )

  1. Believing in positive possibilities
  2. Building community relationships
  3. Listening deeply
  4. Working as a team
  5. Embracing curiosity
  6. Understanding the power of language
  7. Supporting people through relationships with them
  8. Asking “What brings out the best in this person?”
  9. Having power with, not power over
  10. Questioning structures and policies that limit people