asset-based approaches trevor hopkins freelance consultant
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Asset-based approaches
www.assetbasedconsulting.net
Trevor HopkinsFreelance Consultant
Aaron Antonovsky1923 - 1974
‘The father of salutogenesis’
The ‘salutogenic’ perspective
Focuses on three aspects:
• Finding solutions
• Identifying ‘General Resistance Resources’
• The concept of a ‘Sense of Coherence’
Health
Health is seen as a movement in a continuum on an axis between total ill-health and total health:
‘Ease’ ‘Dis - ease’
Health
Health is seen as a movement in a continuum on an axis between total ill-health and total health:
‘Ease’ ‘Dis - ease’
Health
Health is seen as a movement in a continuum on an axis between total ill-health and total health:
‘Ease’ ‘Dis - ease’
Health
Health is seen as a movement in a continuum on an axis between total health and total ill-health:
Later analysis suggests this is a multidimensional concept rather than the unidimensional one Antonovsky proposed.
‘Ease’ ‘Dis - ease’
Sense of Coherence
This capacity is a combination of people’s ability to:
• Assess and understand the situation they are in
• Find meaning to move in a health-promoting direction
• Have the capacity to do so
The Sense of Coherence
Antonovsky expressed these as:
• Comprehensibility
• Meaningfulness
• Manageability
Generalized Resistance Resources
These are:
• found within people as resources bound to their person and capacity
• in the person’s immediate and distant environment
• of both material and non-material qualities
• from the person to the whole society
Generalized Resistance Resources
Mapping-Sentence, definition of Generalized Resistance Resources (1985) Antonovsky p. 103)
Generalized Resistance Resources
• material/financial• knowledge/intelligence• ego/identity• coping strategies (rational, flexible, far-sighted)• social support (ties, social resources)• commitment, continuence, cohesion, control• cultural stability, cultural resources• magic• religion/philosophy/art (a stable set of answers)• a preventitive health orientation
The salutogenic model
The Salutogenic Model from Antonovsky - Faltermaier, (2005) p. 66)
The salutogenic model
The salutogenic model and “sense of coherence concept could be implemented as a systematic
orientation and perspective in daily activities and professional practice – that is, creating
empowering dialogues to enforce the strengths of people.”
Encouraging the strengths of women patients - A case-study from general practice on empowering dialogues (1999)
Malterund K & Hollnagel H
Asset Mapping...
...or how to find, build and connectthe Generalized Resistance Resources
Assets mapping
Can be done with:
• Individuals – circles of friends/support/accountability
• Communities – Community asset mapping
• Organisations – using Appreciative Inquiry
“The key factor is not what is available but to be able to use and re-use them for the intended purpose”
Circles of support and accountability
“When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other”
Margaret J. Wheatley
Circles of support
‘Circles of support and personalisation’ (no date) Max Neill & Helen Sanderson
www.helensandersonassociates.co.uk/media/75948/circlesofsupportandpersonalisation.pdf
‘Using an assets approach for positive mental health and well-being’ (2012)
Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Sciences
Circles of connectivity
Community asset mapping
“The emerging associational map will chart the complex, diverse, interrelated array of local informal and formal associations. The purpose of the map will not be to seek associational assistance or advice to systems. Nor will it be in order to create partnerships.
Rather the map will be needed to better understand the center of local neighborhoods, civil society and themediating structures of locality.”
John L McKnight
Community asset mapping
The actual and potential assets of:
• Individuals
• Associations
• Organisations
‘Building Communities from the Inside Out’ (1993)John P Kretzman & John L McKnight
Creating an asset map
The actual and potential assets of:
• Individuals – heart, head & hand
• Associations
• Organisations
Adding more depth
As well as individuals, associations and organisations, in a community this can also include:
• The physical assets
• The economic assets
• The cultural assets
Using an assets approach for positive mental health and well-being’ (2012)Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Sciences
http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=18364393
Primary Assets
Secondary Assets
Potential
Assets
Analysing assets
“Good organisations know how topreserve the core of what they do best.
Preserving the right thing is key.Letting go of other things is the next step”
David Cooperrider
Appreciative Inquiry
Agenda
Reflection – remembering times when our culture, values and identity made us proud.
Affirmation - inquiring into those strengths and how we can use them to create the future
Action – practical planning towards the future
The appreciative cycle
...building the path as we walk it
Questions and discussion
It takes everyone to build a healthy, strong and safe
community.
“The asset approach is a set of values and principles and a way of
thinking about the world.”
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