What is this?

This is the third stage in Active Planning: a core process with clients

It involves evoking the young person's own understanding of "where I am" and where they currently wanting to get to reflects elements of Motivational Work and particularly the instruction to Develop Discrepancy.

There is some useful material at Relationship to help that may help to identify reasons for widely divergent ideas about where the young person and the KeyWorker both want to make as their Aims and Goals.

In comparing my intended destination with a young person's, I am demonstrating my capacity to accomodate difference, and the respectful curiosity and inquisitiveness that The Therapist's Mentalizing Stance promotes:

• "I am really interested that although I had in my mind that getting to X would be a good idea, that this is not at all what you had in your mind! How do you think I got it so wrong - or so different - from your point of view?"

A Useful Tool:

The Active Planning Map is a useful and very simple tool for helping a worker to address this in face-to-face work.