Virtual Intentional Peer Support Core Training
February 19, 2025 @ 10:00 am - March 26, 2025 @ 3:30 pm
THIS IPS CORE TRAINING IS ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND/OR WORK IN VERMONT.
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 virtual Core Training is a 10-day introduction to this innovative framework and is designed to have you practicing right away. In a highly interactive environment, participants learn the tasks and principles of IPS, examine assumptions about who they are, and explore ways to create relationships in which power is negotiated, co-learning is possible, and support goes beyond traditional notions of “service.” IPS is all about opening up new ways of seeing, thinking, and doing, and here we examine how to make this possible.
This is a virtual training and we’ll be using Zoom as the platform. You’ll receive the joining information via email prior to the training.
Please review this document in its entirety before registering. Registration for this training indicates agreement to participation as noted in the document.
Schedule:
Tuesdays and Wednesdays for ten days: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Nov 12th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 26th,, Dec 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 17th ( Please note we are skipping Wednesday 11/27 and making our 10th session on December 17th.) All sessions are scheduled from 10:00 AM- 2:30 PM ET each day. We will have one 15 minute break, and a 45 minute lunch break planned during each session.
Facilitators:
Alexander Ferguson (he/him), Vermont Statewide IPS Trainer
Amey Dettmer (she/her) , Vermont Statewide IPS Trainer
Cost:
This training is generously sponsored by Vermont’s Peer Workforce Development Initiative – there is only a $120 fee per participant, which includes the cost for IPS Core Materials (a book). Please include an address for shipping when you register.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intentional-peer-support-core-virtual-vermont-only-registration-1003963049507