This session explores Do For One’s intentional approach to social matchmaking—first identifying a Partner, then seeking an Advocate whose qualities, interests, and capacities align with the Partner’s needs and interests in efforts to foster a meaningful relationship.
The key takeaway is to understand how relationships are built through a relational rather than clinical process. Using the Partner PortrAitas a guide, participants will learn how to highlight a person’s strengths, interests, needs, and vulnerabilities, and how to recruit and orient Advocates in ways that set the stage for enduring, freely-given relationships.
“Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can’t put it all back together again. What you can do, is the only thing that you can do. You take two things that ought to be together and you put them together.”
