Books & Articles

Books

Peer Support an Alternative Approach.

This innovataive curriculum details the difference between peer support and other helping practices. It includes appendices for warmlines, peer run crisis programs, and for peers working in the system. Modules include:

• Creating Learning Environments
• What is Peer support anyhow?
• First Contact and Language
• Listening Differently
• Building Trauma-Informed Mutually Responsible relationships
• Working with Challenging situations
• Conflict
• Self Care/Relational Care/Work Care

This curriculum is also offered as a 5 or 10 day training. Facilitator training is also available.

Co-supervision for Intentional Peer Support

A booklet covering:

• What is co-supervision?
• What is it that we are co-supervising?
  • Connection
  • Worldview
  • Mutuality
  • Moving Towards
• Giving and Receiving Critical Feedback
• The process of co-supervision
• Evaluation

Intentional Peer Support (An Alternative Approach) - Facilitator's manual

Over 200 pages packed with clearly-laid-out lesson plans, teaching and facilitation tips, and exercises for teaching the practice and principles of Intentional Peer Support. This is an invaluable tool for theoretical and skills-based training for a wide variety of groups- whether workplace training groups, support groups or community-based interest groups.

Wellness Recovery Action Plan & Peer Support

Peer Support is about having relationships with others in new and different ways that promote growth, recovery and wellness. WRAP is about living in new and different ways that promote growth, recovery and wellness. By combining the two, the skills and strategies that we discover in peer support can become part of our WRAP and the skills and strategies we discover as we learn about and use WRAP assist us in peer Support.

The combination of WRAP and Peer Support can be very powerful in helping us grow, learn from each other and challenge each other beyond what we thought we were capable of. Using some of the peer support theory, we can begin to use WRAP to help each other discover the context within which we've learned about ourselves, and then help each other develop plans that build a new "story".

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Articles

• Peer Support: A Systemic Approach
• Peer Support: What Makes It Unique?
• Crisis and Connection
• Rights, Research and Liberation
• Peer Support: A Theoretical Perspective
• Defining Peer Support
• Peer Support and a Socio-Political Response to Trauma and Abuse
• Discovering the Fidelity Standards of Peer Support in an Ethnographic Evaluation
• What Recovery Means To Us

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