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Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 1

What is Intentional Peer Support? Intentional Peer support is about creating relationships, and taking a bigger look at how we’ve learned to operate in the world Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 2

What is Intentional Peer Support? Mindfully using relationships to: - Create genuine and meaningful connection - Invite and inspire learning and growth - Challenge and expand how we’ve come to ‘know what we know’ - Develop mutuality- where both of us are present and contributing - Create mutual accountability in our relationships and communities - Move towards what we want to do/be Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 3

Connection Worldview Mutuality Moving Towards Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 4

From Helping to Learning What is my role in this relationship? From Me Helping You to Us Learning Together Shery Mead Consulting © 2014 5

From Individual to Relationship When it’s about the individual • No one else has to change • We learn how to outcomes • We lose sight of our own • We lose sight of the relational dynamic • Both people contribute to mutual learning • We pre-determine learning When it’s about the relationship communicate with honesty and openness • Our relationship becomes model of other relationships Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 6

From Fear to Hope ▻ Fear-based relationships are based on what is wrong and what we are afraid is going to happen ▻ Hope-based relationships are based on what is possible, where we are going, and how we can together create something new Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 7

The Challenges ✴Tolerating Uncertainty ✴Sitting with Discomfort ✴Holding Multiple Truths Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 8

Relating to the Tasks of IPS Connection Worldview Mutuality Moving Towards Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 9

Connection ² A sense of belonging ² We’re in it together ² Builds trust which leads to learning for both ² Moves the focus away from the individual and into the relationship Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 10

Connection Disconnection Reconnection Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 11

What is worldview? Worldview • How we come to know what we know • Trauma- Informed- ‘What’s wrong’ becomes ‘What happened? ’ Shery Mead Consulting © 2014 12

Mutuality: Redefining Help Learning and growing together Moving away from a “service” type relationship It’s only working if it’s working for both of us Often happens in little moments Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 13

Mutual Responsibility The Relationship Shared Responsibility You Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org Me 14

Moving Towards • When connection, worldview and mutuality come together, it culminates in moving towards. • Crisis can be uncomfortable- even perilousit can also create opportunities! Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 15

Peer Support is about… ² ² ² ² Putting energy into mutual learning relationships as opposed to service relationships Connecting/reconnecting with family, our culture and the community Helping each other take a look at how we’ve come to make sense of the world Re-defining mental health Figuring out how to make this work for both of us Supporting and challenging each other to move towards the life we want Changing the world! Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 16

Contact Details Intentional Peer Support • www. intentionalpeersupport. org • info@intentionalpeersupport. org • Facebook – Intentional Peer Support – IPS Learning Community Artwork • Beth Filson • www. emfilsonsurvivalart. com Intentional Peer Support © 2014 www. intentionalpeersupport. org 17