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Workshops, Trainings & Events

WRAP & Recovery Seminars/Workshops for Fall & Winter 2008-2009!!!

*Mental Health Recovery Seminar-I & WRAP:
2-Day Intensive:
Wednesday & Thursday, October 22 & 23 2008: 9.00 am-4.30 pm.
This 2-Day Intensive Seminar-I is designed to directly empower people on their recovery journey (and their supporters) through recovery education and developing a personal Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP). This Seminar-I also lays a broad foundation for building peer support groups and is a pre-requisite for Seminar-II: Facilitator Training.

*Mental Health Recovery & WRAP Seminar-II: Facilitator Training:
5-Day Intensive: Monday, November 3 thru Friday, November 7, 2008.
Monday-Thursday: 9.00 am-4.30 pm; Friday: 9.00 am-3.00 pm.
This is a 5-Day Intensive Seminar-II for Copeland Center Certification of Recovery Educators and WRAP Facilitators. This Seminar-II Trains and Certifies participants to Facilitate Recovery and WRAP groups, presentations, workshops, and equips them with all the skills and materials they need to Facilitate them in their communities. (Must have completed Seminar-I as a pre-requisite for this training). (There is a $250 fee for this Seminar-II. Limited scholarships and spaces are available for qualified applicants through our DMHAS grant funding).

*Pathways FOR-U: (12-Weeks):
Thursdays, starting November 13, 2008, 1.00pm-3.00pm.
This 12-Week Workshop is based on the Strengths-Based Pathways To Recovery Workbook and will help promote recovery in your life by increasing knowledge/education, finding satisfactory work/volunteer activities, developing meaningful relationships with others, achieving intimacy/enhancing sexuality, attaining higher levels wellness and exploring spirituality.

*Self-Esteem 101: (8-Weeks):
Tuesdays, starting October 14, 2008, 1.00pm-3.00pm.
This 8-Week Workshop was developed by FOR-U to explore things that contribute or take away from our Self-Esteem. Topics include: Self-Worth, Self-Image, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Confidence, Negative/Positive Self-Talk, Spirituality, and many others.

*Intentional Peer Support Training
with Shery Mead & Associates

Peer Support, an Alternative Approach 5 days November 10-14, 2008 Vermont, USA
For more information contact: lenorakimball@gmail.com
Location: The Inn at Essex (Vermont's Culinary Institute Resort)
Burlington, Vermont
www.vtculinaryresourt.com

Training Costs:
$970 Early (Before October 15)
$995 (After October 15)

What is Intentional peer support? is a way of thinking about purposeful
relationships. It is a process where both people (or a group of people) use the relationship to look at things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns, and to support and challenge each other as we try new things.

IPS is different from traditional service relationships because :
it doesn’t start with the assumption of “a problem.” Instead people are taught to listen for how and why each of us has learned to make sense of our experiences, and then use the relationship to create new ways of seeing, thinking, and doing.
IPS promotes a ‘trauma-informed’ way of relating- instead of asking ‘what’s wrong’ we ask ‘what happened’?
IPS looks beyond the notion of individuals needing to change and examines our lives in the context of our relationships and communities.
Peer Support relationships are viewed as partnerships that enable both parties to learn and grow- rather than as one person needing to ‘help’ another.
Instead of a focus on what we need to stop or avoid doing, we are encouraged to move towards what and where we want to be.

At the end of the day, it is really about building stronger, healthy communities.

What will the training cover?
Some areas covered:
Learning vs. helping
Thinking beyond the individual to the relational
The four tasks: (and what is unique about peer support)
   1. Connection and disconnection
   2. Worldview
   3. Mutuality
   4. Moving towards,

The power of language
Listening Differently
Mutual responsibility
Shared risk
The impact of trauma
Relationship patterns
Moving forwards in relationships
Boundaries and limits
Issues of power and privilege
Conflict dynamics and resolution
Challenging situations and conversations- e.g.
    * Suicide
    * Self-harm
    * When someone’s reality is different from our own
Co-supervision
Values
Competencies

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Healthy Relationships 101
(To be scheduled)

This is an 8-Week Workshop on Healthy Relationships

This group has been developed by FOR-U to explore how to recognize, achieve and maintain healthy relationships with other people and the world around us. Join us and let's figure out the mystery of the so-called "healthy" relationship together!

*All Connecticut Adults are Welcome!!!

For Seminar/Workshop details & registration information, contact:

Focus On Recovery-United, Inc. (FOR-U)
100 Riverview Center, Suite 272,
Middletown, CT 06457.
Tel: (860) 704-0556, Fax: (860) 704-0767,
Toll Free In CT: 1 (866) 255-5029.
Email: focusonrecovery@gmail.com, Website: www.focusonrecovery.org