Events
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Training – 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 […]
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Training – A Harm Reduction Approach to Psychiatric Drugs (Vermont Only)
Training schedule: Monday 9/23/24 and Wednesday 9/25/24 , 1230-430pm each day (this is a two-day workshop) As peer support workers, we are sometimes discouraged from having conversations about psych drugs. We are encouraged to leave it to the medical professionals. While we cannot give medical advice or replace the role of doctors, we can offer […]
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Training – Harm Reduction: Autonomy, Choice, & Self-Determination
Autonomy, Choice, & Self-Determination: Harm Reduction In this interactive workshop, participants will gain insight into applying harm reduction principles when supporting folks having a variety of experiences. Together we’ll explore how to meet folks where they are and practice a person-centered, empathetic, and nonjudgmental approach to harm and risk reduction. Participants will investigate the utilization […]
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Training – 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 […]
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Training – 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 […]
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Training – Intentional Peer Support Core (5-day In-Person – 10/7 through 10/11/24, 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 […]
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Beyond The Bridge Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion
Main Street Landing Film House 60 Lake Street, Burlington, VT, United StatesABOUT THE FILM The team at A Bigger Vision Films noticed that most documentaries on homelessness offer few solutions, so they set out to create BEYOND THE BRIDGE, an ambitious documentary film about solutions to homelessness. The film crew drove over 40,000 miles to visit 12 cities and dozens of service providers, those with lived experience […]
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Training – Intentional Peer Support Core (5-day In-Person – 10/7 through 10/11/24, 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 […]
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Training – Intentional Peer Support Core (5-day In-Person – 10/7 through 10/11/24, 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 […]
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Training – Intentional Peer Support Core (5-day In-Person – 10/7 through 10/11/24, 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 […]
$100
