About Thistle Learning

Thistle supports over 200 people with long term conditions, disabilities and additional support needs every day and this directly influences our training and consultancy practice.

We know that good training and learning is rooted in practice.   

We work with everyone – from front line staff to managers, to strategic leads, to families and individuals – to develop culture and practice around personal outcomes and asset based approaches. Thistle has delivered work in partnership with the Scottish Government, JIT, NESS, the Alliance (Scotland), NHS boards across Scotland and more.

We work throughout Scotland to create bespoke programmes that encourage and develop best practice in health and social care – and that mirror the Thistle approach to supporting people.

We believe that, irrespective of professional discipline, there exists a core set of values, principles and good conversation skills that enable a focus on what matters most to people and what they want to achieve from support.

These skills, based on solution focussed practice and person centred practice and planning, enhance the ability to: 

• improve support experience;
• support shared decision making; and
• assess and plan health and care support with a strong focus on enhancing wellbeing, planning towards outcomes and a meaningful life, promoting recovery, prevention, anticipatory care and support for self management.

At an organisational level, we support managers and leaders to model these approaches in the service of transformational change. 

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