Goal setting and action planning

Participant goals are individual to each person and based on their experience of living with type 1 diabetes. It is important to understand each participant’s goal, so that you can highlight how DAFNE sessions, and the DAFNE approach overall, are relevant to their goal. Participants are more likely to engage with a topic if they can see how it relates to their own life experience. This is why it is important to ask participants what their experience is, so that you can highlight sessions that are relevant and find ways to encourage participants to achieve their goals.

The DAFNE approach to goal setting is based on the cycle of change. The cycle can be useful to educators to estimate where in the cycle individual group participants might be. It may be useful to participants to highlight that lapse is part of the cycle and is to be expected.

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Figure 1 The cycle of change

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The cycle of change starts with 1 Pre-contemplation, followed by 2 Contemplation; 3 Preparation; 4 Action; 5 Maintenance; 6 Relapse. Lapses can be expected at any point in the cycle between contemplation through to and during maintenance.

Figure 1 The cycle of change