About

We often hear from people who have either worked with somebody who has, or they themselves have, struggled to benefit from anger management related strategies or programmes. In some instances we’ve found that the individual has felt more demoralised and even more isolated as a result. Strategies that they desperately want to take on board actually turn out to fail them, making them feel as though they have failed and that there is no way out from this repetitive behaviour. Perhaps they’re behaviours they have learnt from a long time ago, or they may be dealing with a high sense of justice, where they feel misunderstood.

Behavioural management strategies also work within health areas where an individual has to change the way that they treat themselves or treat others.

Footnotes has a track record of enabling individuals. It’s not about ‘mind over matter’ strategies — these may fail in situations where an individual is ‘seeing red’, or where a fear or a memory just creates a ‘freeze moment’, or a restriction on them being able to self-manage.

What Footnotes has powerfully demonstrated, over and over again, is that through the use of image-based sequencing of information, individuals have been able to ‘give themselves a message’ for when they desperately need it. In some senses it is as though they are reprogramming their response to a situation by literally leaving themselves an image ready for that situation, one that will trigger a better decision or a right response. In so doing, they feel in control and able to avoid behavioural or other labels.

Applications

Our portfolio of strategies range from enabling an individual to gain perspective of their situation, seeing it from various angles or points of view, through to harnessing new hopes and being able to see a pathway and timeline to their successful goal. Footnotes supports changing behaviour, helping individuals to pre-determine a new response and organise themselves so that their behaviour is steered through time. 

When it comes to communication, Footnotes offers strategies for better interaction between those with previously difficult connections, and can also address reconciliation where anger or mistrust is preventing the way forward.

In multi-agency settings, the mediation strategies also have an important part to play bringing all parties together, and facilitating exchange. 

Pastoral care
There is a large overlap between behaviour management and pastoral care support that Footnotes offers. Please visit our ‘Counsellors and Pastoral Carers’ section for more information about using Footnotes in emotional support and post-trauma recovery.

These are a selection of some of the grid modules available ..