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Cohort 1 · 2026 · Session 6 of 8

Sign-in sheet

Thursday 25 June 2026 · 11:00–13:00 · Akaltye Room, Desert Knowledge Australia

Date

Thursday 25 June 2026

Time

11:00–13:00

Venue

DKA, 475 South Stuart Hwy

Facilitators

Metia · Mandy · Lukas

Participant sign-in

Each participant signs in on arrival. If a participant can't sign independently, their support worker or coordinator countersigns. Photo permission column — tick Y only if a signed photo permission form has been collected for that person today.

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Support workers attending today

For every support worker who attends the session: name, organisation, phone, and whether you've collected a signed photo permission form for them today. Leave rows blank if not needed.

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Facilitators & visitors

Dietary, medical and safety information for catering and facilitator reference lives on the catering brief and emergency contacts sheets — not here, for privacy.

Cohort 1 · 2026 · Session 6 of 8 · Facilitator pocket

Emergency contacts

Thursday 25 June 2026 · 11:00–13:00 · Akaltye Room, Desert Knowledge Australia. Confidential — facilitator use only.

Quick dial — emergency

Emergency

000

DAS office

(08) 8953 1422

Lukas mobile

0409 924 058

DKA reception

(08) 8959 6000

Venue

Akaltye Room, Desert Knowledge Australia
475 South Stuart Hwy, Alice Springs NT 0870

If evacuation

TODO — verify with DKA

Facilitators in the room

Lead facilitator

Metia Lisati
(08) 8953 1422
peersupport@das.org.au

Peer co-facilitator

Mandy Knight
Through DAS office

Programs Manager

Lukas Blom
0409 924 058
projects@das.org.au

Per-participant contact tree

Critical-flag participants highlighted. Call primary contact first; secondary as backup.

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Day-of escalation tree

Medical event (allergic reaction, breathing, fall): Call 000 first. Mandy or Metia stays with the participant. Lukas calls primary contact + DAS office. Document on incident form within 24 hours.
Behavioural distress / walkout: Mandy or Metia follows after a beat. Quiet check-in outside the room. If escalation needed, call primary contact. Don't return participant to room without consent.
Photo without consent risk: If anyone in the room photographs a participant whose form isn't signed, ask politely for the photo to be deleted. Note in debrief.
Critical incident (any safety issue you can't handle alone): Lukas mobile 0409 924 058. If unreachable, DAS office (08) 8953 1422.

Cohort 1 · 2026 · Session 6 of 8 · Catering brief

What we need on the table.

Thursday 25 June 2026 · Morning tea + light lunch at 11:50. Akaltye Room, Desert Knowledge Australia.

Headcount

24 people

Caterer

TreatMe Good

Service window

11:50–12:30

Set up by

12:00 sharp

Headcount breakdown

12 participants + 3 facilitators + 8 support workers + 1 carer = 24 people.

Critical safety alerts — read first

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Full dietary flags

Participant	Dietary	What this means at the table
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Cohort 1 · 2026 · Session 6 of 8 · Run sheet

Small Steps and First Steps

Two hours. The minute-by-minute facilitator script for M9.

Date

Thursday 25 June 2026

Time

11:00–13:00

Venue

DKA, 475 South Stuart Hwy

Facilitators

Metia (lead) · Mandy (co-fac)

Session purpose · three things to land

Every participant breaks one goal into three small steps on the Small Steps ladder (P10 of the PATH BOOKLET) — smaller is better, and the steps are theirs.
Every participant can picture their PATH Plan day: WHEN, WHO, COLOURS, WHAT TO BRING captured on the Getting Ready worksheet (P11), a date confirmed (or a follow-up call booked), and an invitation list started — with help to send the invites if they want it.
Every participant leaves ready for their PATH Plan day — a personal Before/During/After plan for looking after themselves on the day (one thing circled per row) and the consent/photo form sorted.
S6 closes plainly, not as a finale — a short forward bridge to the two remaining sessions (Professional Skills 2 Jul, Meetings 9 Jul) and each participant's PATH Plan day. The program farewell now lives at S8.

The unspoken fourth one: every participant leaves wanting their PATH Plan day to come. That's the only one that matters in the long run.

This is a handover session — people arrive as a group and leave as individual focus persons, each preparing for their own PATH Plan day. A rough ladder the participant owns beats a polished one we helped too much with. And mind the arc: M9 was written as the program's final group session ('nine weeks'), but for Cohort 1 it lands at S6 with M10 + M12 still to come — pitch the close as 'the PATH work is done', not 'goodbye forever', and adapt the nine-weeks count to our six sessions since 14 May.

Pre-session prep

Three days out · Mon 22 June

OwnerLukas (Mandy calls unbooked dates)

Confirm PATH Plan day dates for each participant (Trello PATH – Participants) — co-fac calls anyone whose date is not yet booked
Print the booklets: PATH BOOKLET in colour, A4, saddle-stitched, 1 per participant; EXTRAS BOOKLET as needed
Print the worksheets: M9_W1 Small Steps ladder ×3 per participant, M9_W2 Getting Ready ×1, M9_W3 Invitation template ×1 + spares, Looking-after-yourself (Before/During/After) ×1 + blank consent/photo-permission forms ×1, Layer 1 feedback forms ×1
Confirm catering — cake / shared food if the cohort agreed at S5
Confirm whether the cohort agreed to a group photo at S5; confirm any interpreter or family member attendance

Day before · Wed 24 June

OwnerLukas + Metia + Mandy

Metia + Mandy walk through the deck together — Mandy names where she will go first
Re-read each participant's worksheet snapshots from S2–S5 (All About Me, Now, My Team, Keeping Strong, My Future) in the Trello record — bring forward any unfinished items so they can be picked up today before the PATH content closes
Lock Mandy's picks: her 'one thing I've noticed' line, her one-small-step icebreaker sentence
Pack the standard kit (markers, paper roll, sticky notes, camera, first aid, contact cards)
Check the venue is booked 60 minutes longer than usual (extra setup before, debrief time after)
15-min huddle — last walk-through

Day of · Thu 25 June, 10:00 arrival

OwnerAll

Both facilitators arrive 60 minutes early today (not the usual 30) — last PATH session, we set the room up well
Booklets on chairs; M9_W1 + W2 + W3 + the looking-after-yourself sheets on the side table
COLOUR CODED PATH wall poster (A2, DAS palette) taped up
Tea / food / water on the side table
Print and check the day-after SMS draft for each participant
Test AV + load the M9 deck (do not depend on cloud); 30-min huddle Metia + Mandy

Minute by minute

11:00–11:10 10 min Welcome + AcknowledgementFrom M9 · slow this one — it's the last PATH welcome Lead: Mandy (welcome) + agreed reader (Acknowledgement)
S6 deck slides 1–3 (cover up on entry · Acknowledgement · today's plan)

Mandy welcomes — and names the cohort: first names of every person. This is the last PATH welcome, so slow it down. Mandy shares one thing she has noticed about the cohort over our weeks together. Specific, not generic — locked at alignment. Acknowledgement — read the locked default wording, slower than usual. Don't paraphrase, don't improvise (pending cultural review — CRR-001, Lhere Artepe sign-off due Phase 8; use the locked default until it lands). Then Metia sets the frame for the day — source script, adapted for Cohort 1 (M10 + M12 still to come): "Today is the last PATH session. After today the PATH work is done — you each have your own PATH Plan day coming up. We've still got two more sessions together on other skills. We are still with you. DAS does not stop when this room closes."

Watch: Anyone visibly flat or anxious on entry — endings stir people up. Quiet check-in, no fuss. Don't let the front of the session sprawl; the close needs its full ten minutes more than the welcome does.

11:10–11:25 15 min Icebreaker — one small step you've takenFrom M9 · one short true sentence each · ties to today's Small Steps theme Lead: Mandy (models first)
S6 deck slide 4

Mandy models a short, true sentence first — one small step she has taken since the group started. Hers is drafted in advance. Then around the room — one sentence per person: one small step you've taken since we started. Big or small, in the group or at home. No pressure to elaborate. Pass is fine. 2026-06-25: this replaces the old '9 weeks in 9 words' / 'our time together' framing — it conflated a week count, a retrospective and a self-observation, and read as a finale. S6 is no longer the program close, so the icebreaker is present-tense and feeds straight into today's Small Steps work.

11:25–11:45 20 min PATH refresher + the map shapeFrom M9 · the COLOUR CODED PATH poster on the wall Lead: Metia (Mandy adds where it fits)
S6 deck slides 5–6

Walk the COLOUR CODED PATH wall poster — the map shape each participant will draw on their own PATH Plan day. Point at the poster, not the screen, where possible. This is revision, not new content — refresh gently and connect it to the day they're preparing for. On the partnership (read it properly — it matters): "DAS facilitates your PATH Plan in partnership with Inclusion NT under the PATH MOU 2025-26. The PATH method itself was developed by Jack Pearpoint, John O'Brien and Marsha Forest in Canada in the late 1980s. Inclusion NT in Darwin built the leadership-group preparation. DAS adapts it for Central Australia. You are part of a long line." The full attribution chain (CRR-015) is printed on the inside back cover of the PATH BOOKLET — show them where.

Watch: Watch for fatigue — this is the longest stretch of received content today. If the room sags, trim the refresher and get to the ladder early; the activities are the session.

11:45–12:00 15 min Activity 1 — Small Steps ladder (P10)From M9 · M9_W1 (3 copies each — drafts are fine), final into the booklet Lead: Both walk the room — Mandy helps with smaller-is-better
S6 deck slide 7

Metia introduces: "Small steps. Smaller is better. 'Phone Auntie this week' beats 'sort out my whole family this year'. The ladder is not a to-do list. It is the first three things, in order, that move you toward your goal." Each participant breaks one goal into three small steps on the M9_W1 ladder — 3 copies each, so drafts are allowed — then the final version goes into P10 of the PATH BOOKLET. Mandy walks the room. If a step is too big, she asks: "What is the very first thing you do? Do you call someone? Send a message? Catch a bus?" Write that on rung 1.

Watch: Someone who cannot think of any small steps — one prompt only: "What is one phone call you have been putting off?" Write that on rung 1. Done. Don't pile on more prompts.

12:00–12:15 15 min Break + shared foodTea · food · water · cake if the cohort agreed at S5 Lead: —
S6 deck slide 8

Facilitators ease off — but this break is also the cold-feet slot. If anyone has wobbles about their PATH Plan day, this is where Metia sits with them (see tricky moments). Lukas during the break: quietly stage the afternoon — M9_W2 Getting Ready sheets at each seat, invitation templates (M9_W3) and the looking-after-yourself sheets (Before/During/After) + blank consent/photo-permission forms stacked at each seat for the afternoon.

Watch: Watch dietary flags per the participant pack. Keep the food unhurried — it's the last shared spread of the PATH arc.

12:15–12:35 20 min Activity 2 — Getting Ready for your PATH Plan (P11)From M9 · M9_W2 · WHEN / WHO / COLOURS / WHAT TO BRING Lead: Both — Mandy scribes where preferred
S6 deck slides 9–11 (Activity 2 · Who's coming · Your PATH Plan facilitators)

Metia introduces: "WHEN, WHO, COLOURS, WHAT TO BRING. We need this before you leave today, even rough. We can fix details over the next two weeks." Four parts on M9_W2, final version into P11 of the booklet: - WHEN — their PATH Plan day date. Confirm it before they leave today, or book the follow-up call. - WHO — their invitation list. Who do they want in the room? The M9_W3 invitation template goes home with them; offer help to send the invites if they want it. - COLOURS — the colours they want on their PATH map. - WHAT TO BRING — photos, music, a support person, food. Mandy scribes for any participant who prefers it. The words stay the participant's.

Watch: The WHO list is theirs — don't editorialise it, even if someone invites a person others are uncomfortable with (see tricky moments). Confirm WHEN for every participant before the room closes — that's the non-negotiable of this segment.

12:35–12:55 20 min Looking after yourself for your PATH Plan dayFrom M10 'Looking after myself' (Before/During/After) · its weaving-guide Week-9 home · PATH-Plan-day prep Lead: Metia frames · Mandy scribes the flipchart
S6 deck slide 12

Frame: 'Your PATH Plan day is a big day — let's get you ready for it, like packing your bag the night before a trip.' Whole-group capture on the flipchart, three rows; then each person copies onto their own sheet and circles ONE thing per row to actually do. BEFORE the day: good sleep, eat breakfast, know the time and place, get there early. We help you sign the consent + photo-permission form — that's the paperwork done. DURING the day: it's your map and your day. Take your time. It's okay to pause, have a drink, or ask us to slow down. AFTER the day: rest, look at your map, tell someone about it, pick your first small step. 2026-06-25: this is the M10 'on time + paperwork' slot the M10 weaving guide assigns to Week 9 (M9) — relocated here to replace the program finale, which moved to S8. No new activity invented.

Watch: Keep it practical, not anxious — the goal is a calm, prepared participant, not a checklist to stress over. Anyone worried about a particular part of their plan day — note it for a 1-on-1 before the day.

12:55–13:00 5 min What's next — see you in two weeksS6 close · NO program ceremony — the farewell now lives at S8, the last session Lead: Mandy (Metia supports)
S6 deck slide 13

A warm, plain close — NOT a farewell. Cover slide 11 (Your PATH Plan facilitators) first if it hasn't come up: who's in the room on their plan day. Then the forward bridge (slide 13): 'Today you finished the PATH map work and got ready for your PATH Plan day. Two more sessions to go.' - Tomorrow: a short SMS or call from Metia or your DAS lead. - Next two weeks: we sort out the details of your PATH Plan day with you. - Thursday 2 July: Session 7 — Professional Skills. - Thursday 9 July: Session 8 — Meetings. Our last session together. No standing ovation, no leave-behind ceremony today — that's S8. Keep it light: see you Thursday.

Watch: Resist making this a goodbye — there are two sessions to go and the real send-off is S8. If a participant treats it as the end, gently redirect: 'Not the end — two more, and your PATH Plan day. See you Thursday.'

Mandy's choices to lock at alignment

Choice	Options
Welcome wording + her 'one thing I've noticed' about the cohort	Her own words. Specific, not generic — one real observation from the weeks together. Locked at alignment, rehearsed not improvised.
Icebreaker model sentence (her one small step)	Drafted in advance — short, true, hers, present-tense. Example: "Since we started, I've begun speaking up at my house meeting."
Acknowledgement reader	Mandy / Metia / both — read the CRR-001 locked default wording either way, slower than usual
If unwell mid-session (like S1)	Steps out — Metia + Lukas continue. Acknowledge briefly, don't make a thing of it.

Participant flags · keep in your back pocket

Participant	Flag
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Anticipated tricky moments

Cold feet about the PATH Plan day Sit with them in the break. What is getting in the way? Wrong date? Wrong people? Wrong room? Almost always fixable. Defer the day if needed — PATH Plan dates are not contracts.

Wanting to invite someone others are uncomfortable with Their plan, their call. Hold the boundary respectfully. Do not editorialise the invite list. If there's a genuine safeguarding flag, that is a separate conversation outside the room — follow DAS procedures and document in Trello.

Cannot think of any small steps Mandy asks one prompt: "What is one phone call you have been putting off?" Write that on rung 1. Done.

A participant doesn't show up Phone same afternoon — Metia, not Mandy, if the relationship matters. Find out why. Arrange a one-on-one to catch up on the worksheets — we don't write them off. Their PATH Plan day still happens.

A participant shares cultural framing (M7 'Keeping Strong' callbacks) Listen — do not author or correct (per CRR-011 / CRR-012). Bush food / animal / Country references stay observational; cultural meaning sits with the participant. If a new cultural-content question arises, log a CRR entry and route to the appropriate referee — DAS does not author Aboriginal cultural content.

End-of-session checklist

Each participant has their PATH BOOKLET with Small Steps (P10) + Getting Ready (P11) filled in
Each participant's PATH Plan day date confirmed — or a follow-up call booked within 2 days to confirm it
Each participant's invitation list captured (in their booklet or their Trello PATH – Participants record)
Layer 1 per-session feedback collected in the box at the door — any RED faces raised at the debrief and followed up within 24h
Cohort photo (if taken) saved to the DAS archive with the consent log
Cake / shared food cleared. Room left tidier than we found it
Co-fac debrief done (15 min, paid time)
Day-after SMS sent to each participant within 24 hours (per 06_Post_Workshop_Follow_Up_Template.md)
Trello PATH – Participants updated for each participant: PATH content complete — PATH Plan day [date] (cohort still meets for M10 + M12)
CRR entries reviewed — any new cultural-content questions raised today logged to the Register and routed to the appropriate referee
Layer 1 + 2 data filed; the Layer 3 end-of-program reflection is now captured at S8 — the full cohort report (Inclusion NT: CB&PLG MOU + PATH MOU + DEX) is aggregated after S8
M9 worksheet pile (W1, W2, W4) prepared for Mandy in menu-of-options form — peer review for the NEXT cohort's M9 build, not inspection of these participants' private sheets
Each participant has their Looking-after-yourself sheet (one thing circled per row) and their consent + photo-permission form signed for their PATH Plan day

Cohort 1 · 2026 · Session 6 of 8 · Agenda

Small Steps and First Steps

Thursday 25 June 2026 · 11:00–13:00 · Akaltye Room, Desert Knowledge Australia

Modules

Lead

Metia

Co-fac

Mandy

In room

Lukas

Timeline

Time	What	Who leads
11:00–11:10 10 min	Welcome + Acknowledgement From M9 · slow this one — it's the last PATH welcome	Mandy (welcome) + agreed reader (Acknowledgement)
11:10–11:25 15 min	Icebreaker — one small step you've taken From M9 · one short true sentence each · ties to today's Small Steps theme	Mandy (models first)
11:25–11:45 20 min	PATH refresher + the map shape From M9 · the COLOUR CODED PATH poster on the wall	Metia (Mandy adds where it fits)
11:45–12:00 15 min	Activity 1 — Small Steps ladder (P10) From M9 · M9_W1 (3 copies each — drafts are fine), final into the booklet	Both walk the room — Mandy helps with smaller-is-better
12:00–12:15 15 min	Break Break + shared food Tea · food · water · cake if the cohort agreed at S5	—
12:15–12:35 20 min	Activity 2 — Getting Ready for your PATH Plan (P11) From M9 · M9_W2 · WHEN / WHO / COLOURS / WHAT TO BRING	Both — Mandy scribes where preferred
12:35–12:55 20 min	Looking after yourself for your PATH Plan day From M10 'Looking after myself' (Before/During/After) · its weaving-guide Week-9 home · PATH-Plan-day prep	Metia frames · Mandy scribes the flipchart
12:55–13:00 5 min	What's next — see you in two weeks S6 close · NO program ceremony — the farewell now lives at S8, the last session	Mandy (Metia supports)

What we keep vs hold over

What we keep

Nothing compressed — M9 runs as a single module in its native 2hr shape (the first session of the program that doesn't fold two modules)
Both worksheet activities protected: Small Steps ladder (P10) + Getting Ready for your PATH Plan (P11) — WHEN confirmed before anyone leaves
Layer 3 end-of-program reflection in pairs — full 20 minutes; it's the program's evaluation backbone
S6 close: the plain forward bridge + the looking-after-yourself block — keep it light. The program close (standing ovation, leave-behind handover) now lives at S8, where it's never trimmed

Held over to next session

Easy Read variant — a separate Phase 6 build (slides at 28pt+, one worksheet question per A4 page, sticker-and-arrow Likert on M9_W4, bigger ladder rungs); the current deck is 18pt minimum body
Invitation sending — the list is captured today; actually sending the invites (with help where wanted) happens in the follow-up window over the next two weeks
EXTRAS BOOKLET 9-week — offered as a take-home for whoever wants one, not worked through in-room
Day-after SMS — post-session follow-up per 06_Post_Workshop_Follow_Up_Template.md (the end-of-program letter now posts after S8)
How much 'final goodbye' weight stays at S6 — M9 was authored as the last group session, but Cohort 1 meets twice more (M10 2 Jul, M12 9 Jul); the split between today's PATH-arc close and the S8 program close is an alignment decision
Mandy's menu-of-options peer review of the M9 worksheet pile (W1, W2, W4) — after today, for the NEXT cohort's M9 build, not these participants' private sheets

Materials needed

Laptop + projector with M9 deck preloaded (do not depend on cloud)
DAS-rebranded PATH BOOKLET (full 19pp, colour, A4, saddle-stitched) — 1 per participant (PATH_BOOKLET_DAS.docx)
EXTRAS BOOKLET 9-week (DAS) — 1 per participant who wants one (EXTRAS_BOOKLET_9_WEEK_DAS.docx)
M9_W1 Small Steps ladder (A3 landscape) — 3 per participant
M9_W2 Getting Ready for PATH Plan (A3 landscape) — 1 per participant
M9_W3 Invitation to your PATH Plan template — 1 per participant + spares
Layer 1 per-session (traffic light) feedback forms — 1 per participant
COLOUR CODED PATH wall poster (DAS palette, A2 print) — 1, taped to the wall
DAS contact card — 1 per participant (office stock)
Markers (purple, red, orange, black) — 6+, plus the standard kit (paper roll, sticky notes, first aid)
Camera (phone OK) — only if the cohort agreed to a group photo at S5; consent confirmed per person on the day
Catering: tea, food, water — cake / shared food if the cohort agreed at S5
Looking after yourself (Before/During/After, retargeted to the PATH Plan day) A4 — 1 per participant + Easy Read picture-stem spares (from M10 'Looking after myself')
Blank consent + photo-permission forms — 1 per participant (for the looking-after-yourself paperwork step)

Participant flags + needs are on the Emergency contacts and Run sheet (facilitator-only) — kept off the agenda to keep this one scannable.

Adapted for Central Australia by DAS, in partnership with Inclusion NT under the PATH MOU 2025–26. Original curriculum © Inclusion NT.

Name	Role	Signature	Arrival
Metia Lisati	Lead facilitator
Mandy Knight	Peer co-facilitator
Lukas Blom	Programs Manager
Visitors
Visitor 1
Visitor 2