Trainings
Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Peer Statewide Co-Reflections
This virtual co-reflection is a space for people to come together to reflect on the development of peer support relationships. This co-reflection space is for BIPOC individuals that identify as peers & or work in mental health & human services in Vermont. When: First and third Wednesday of each month at 3:00pm EST To register […]
Relationship-First Approach to Extreme States
In this interactive workshop, participants will gain insight into and practice an approach that centers personal connection, empathy, and mutuality when supporting people who experience extreme or unusual states and/or have extraordinary beliefs. Participants will explore ways to negotiate boundaries and disparate needs while maintaining values of choice, transparency, equality, community, and possibility. Topics include […]
Intentional Peer Support Virtual Overview (90 minutes)
“As peer support in mental health proliferates, we must be mindful of our intention: social change. It is not about developing more effective services, but rather about creating dialogues that have influence on all of our understandings, conversations, and relationships.” – Shery Mead, Founder of IPS Intentional Peer Support is a way of thinking about […]
Pathways Vermont’s Relationship-First Practice
In this interactive workshop, participants will explore ways to tolerate and embrace discomfort in their relationships with service recipients while learning about the values of Pathways Vermont’s Relationship-First Practice: humanity, authenticity, collaboration, humility, curiosity, and hope. Through this practice, service providers vulnerably embrace and investigate their discomfort, deepen their practice of empathy, and build powerful, […]
A Harm Reduction Approach to Psychiatric Drugs (Vermont Only)
Training schedule: Tues 5/21 and Thurs 5/23 , 1230-430pm each day (this is a two-day workshop) As peer support workers, we are sometimes discouraged from having conversations about psych drugs and are encouraged to leave it to the medical professionals. While we cannot give medical advice or replace the role of doctors, we can offer […]
A Harm Reduction Approach to Psychiatric Drugs (2-day training)
As peer support workers, we are sometimes discouraged from having conversations about psych drugs and are encouraged to leave it to the medical professionals. While we cannot give medical advice or replace the role of doctors, we can offer supportive conversations that explore others’—and our own—relationship to psych drugs. We might also be in a […]
Intentional Peer Support Overview Training (4-hour)
“As peer support in mental health proliferates, we must be mindful of our intention: social change. It is not about developing more effective services, but rather about creating dialogues that have influence on all of our understandings, conversations, and relationships.” – Shery Mead, Founder of IPS Intentional Peer Support is a way of thinking about […]
Intentional Peer Support Core (In-Person – Burlington, VT)
Intentional Peer Support is a way of thinking about and inviting transformative relationships. Practitioners learn to use relationships to see things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns, and support and challenge each other in trying new things. Based on Shery Mead’s book, Intentional Peer Support: An Alternative Approach, our in-person […]
Mad Movement Histories (Vermont Only)
DATES: Tues 6/11 and Thurs 6/13, 1230pm-430pm each day (*this is a two-day event*) DESCRIPTION: Come explore mad* movement histories through themes of resistance to oppression and building alternative supports, and through lenses of racial, disability, economic, and gender justice. We will look at and discuss some primary sources, and there will be short assignments […]
Mad Movement Histories (Vermont Only)
DATES: Tues 6/11 and Thurs 6/13, 1230pm-430pm each day (*this is a two-day event*) DESCRIPTION: Come explore mad* movement histories through themes of resistance to oppression and building alternative supports, and through lenses of racial, disability, economic, and gender justice. We will look at and discuss some primary sources, and there will be short assignments […]