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Post training, Organisational Trainers complete a feedback form which is used to maintain quality and for research about the efficacy of IPS. If anyone wishes to include additional material or make any changes to the training, they must negotiate with IPS Central. IPSANZ is the only organization in New Zealand licensed to print and provide manuals and our roles and responsibilities have been agreed directly with the founders of the movement.

At an organizational level, qualified peer workers are encouraged to schedule regular and group Co-Reflection sessions, as well as undertaking refresher courses pending availability , to ensure quality standards are maintained. To contact IPS Central go to www. Every session was beneficial. It opened my mind and awareness, and I found everything challenging and inspiring.

I enjoyed watching the video role plays and there was opportunity for open discussions. Everything worked well. Even though I was nervous about role plays I felt connected. The course gave me a greater understanding of what IPS is and how I can apply it. Particularly useful was understanding worldview and how to deal with conflict, connection and reconnection. Interested in learning more? Have some questions? Send us a message and one of our busy, hard working coordinators will endeavour be get touch with you soon.

Send message. Interesting, informative, interactive, thought provoking and challenging in a good way. I think the course was wonderful and a great asset to our community in helping to reduce the stigma around mental illness, as we work together towards wellness.

Just wonderful that this finally exists and is in action. This gift will help heal many and create a movement of positivity on a global scale.

IPS isn't therapy. It's a new model aimed at building purposeful relationships and communities based upon trust and respect. For building and nurturing meaningful connections. IPS is a "trauma informed" way of relating that looks beyond the notion of an individual needing to change and focuses on our lives in the context of communities and relationships. Develop Transformative Relationships. Change Negative Thinking.

Intentional Peer Support is a way of thinking about and inviting transformative relationships. With IPS, each individual pays attention to how we have learned to make sense of our experiences, and then uses the relationship to create new ways of seeing, thinking, and doing. IPS promotes a trauma-informed way of relating.

Looking beyond the mere notion of individual responsibility for change. IPS encourages us to increasingly move towards what we want, instead of focusing on what we need to stop doing or avoid.

IPS provides a framework from which to build stronger, healthier, interconnected communities. What are the origins of IPS? Who can learn IPS? How can I or my organisation be a part of IPS? There are 3 steps to be undertaken: Arrange a Core Training Event — Core Training is for anyone interested in mutual support and has been widely implemented as foundation training for people working in both traditional and alternative mental health settings. To find out more about organizing a Core Training — email trainer intentionalpeersupport.

We are available to provide consultation and mentor organizations practicing IPS to help integrate co-reflection into their workplace culture.

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As always, he discusses the crucial junctions at which History could easily have taken a different turn and analyses the possible and likely results. While necessarily speculative to a degree, the scenarios are all highly plausible and rooted in a firm understanding of actually events and their context.

In so doing, Timothy Venning gives the reader a clearer understanding of the factors at play and why things happened the way they did, as well as a tantalizing view of what might so easily have been different. Key scenarios discussed in this volume include:?? Alternative development questions who the producers of development knowledges and practices are, and aims at decentring development and geographical knowledge from the Anglo-American centre and the Global North.

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As the essays assembled in this collection show, interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of architecture and design throughout the twentieth century. Use Matters is the first to assemble this alternative history, from the bathroom to the city, from ergonomics to cybernetics, and from Algeria to East Germany.

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In his innovative book, Kieran Egan refashions the ancient function of the storyteller with such clarity that any teacher can step into the role with confidence. Skip to content. Intentional Peer Support. Intentional Peer Support Book Review:.

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