Community Meal
This month we will be serving a Pasta Bar with vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free pasta options for folks to engage! Salad and garlic bread as well. We will be asking that folks wear a mask while up from their seats, or while not eating/drinking. We look forward to joining you for another warm meal!
Trauma-Informed Approaches
Date: Thursday May 26th, 12:30pm-4:30pm This participatory workshop is intended to support participants to practice trauma-informed approaches in their work and community relationships. We will: ● Reflect on Trauma’s impact on: ○ How we view the world ○ Our mind and body ○ How we interact ● Rethink “symptoms” as survival adaptations ● Practice basic […]
Statewide Intentional Peer Support Core Training (In Person – Location & Times TBD)
June 2022 – (dates and times to be determined). Please email [email protected] to be pre-registered. Description: From the IPS Website “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 […]
Conversations About Suicide (in-person Burlington, VT)
As peer support workers, we will sometimes support folks who are thinking of dying by suicide. This participatory workshop is intended to support ourselves, fellow staff, and service recipients to engage in conversations about suicide in ways that prioritize compassion, empathy, and autonomy. We’ll spend time unpacking suicide as a language of pain, then consider […]
Intentional Peer Support Core Training (Online)
Training Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays for ten half days : 8/2, 8/4, 8/9, 8/11, 8/16, 8/18, 8/23, 8/25, 8/30, and 9/1, 12:30pm - 4:30pm EST each day Training facilitators: Rad (they/them), Vermont Statewide IPS Trainer, J (they/them), Vermont Statewide IPS Trainer Description: Intentional Peer Support is a way of thinking about and inviting transformative relationships. […]
Vermont Intentional Peer Support (IPS) Online Co-Reflections
First and Third Tuesdays of every month 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST IPS is a way of thinking about and being in purposeful relationships. Co-reflection is a process that we can use to help […]
Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Peer Statewide Co-Reflections
Description: This virtual co-reflection is a space for people to come together to reflect on the development of peer support relationships. This co-reflection space is for BIPOC individuals that identify […]
Vermont Intentional Peer Support (IPS) Online Co-Reflections
First and Third Tuesdays of every month 2:00pm – 3:00pm EST IPS is a way of thinking about and being in purposeful relationships. Co-reflection is a process that we can use to help each other reflect on our practice (how we’re doing what we say we want to be doing). Statewide IPS online co-reflections are […]
Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Peer Statewide Co-Reflections
This virtual co-reflection is a space for people to come together to reflect on the development of peer support relationships. This co-reflection space is for BIPOC individuals that identify as peers & or work in mental health & human services in Vermont. When: First and third Wednesday of each month at 3:00pm EST To register […]
Decolonizing Conversations About Death & Suicide
Main Street Landing Film House 60 Lake Street, Burlington, VT, United StatesAs our society is working towards equity and social justice, we must commit to working toward further access and inclusion. Anti-racism and racial justice require continuous work of daily action, reflection, confronting inequities, and challenging narratives. We acknowledge the importance of holding a space that is not dominated by white culture. In this training, we […]