Living WRAP

Thursday May 24, 2012 2-3 pm EDT

Join author, educator and mental health advocate, Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, as she explores how people use WRAP daily as their guide to recovery and wellness.  She will talk about the importance of hope, personal responsibility, education, self- advocacy, support, and problem solving in using WRAP.  In addition she will share ideas for enhancing each section of WRAP, from the Wellness Toolbox to the Post Crisis Plan, so that it becomes a truly powerful personal guide.  Her presentation will include stories that she has gathered from people around the world who use WRAP; stories that illustrate the challenges of using WRAP, and the power of WRAP in helping people to improve the quality of their daily lives and going on to meet their own goals and dreams.

Click here to register:           https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/778361768

Please join Matthew Federici, Executive Director, and Copeland Center Advanced Level WRAP Facilitators for a 3-day course on WRAP and Healing from Trauma Course in West Chester, PA.

For those of us who have experienced trauma, many things can be triggering. By creating a plan that empowers us to determine what works well for us is a trauma-informed practice. As an evidence based practice (Cooke, et al, 2009) it is recommended that WRAP® classes are to be provided by peers, those with lived experience. Making a connection based on shared experience offers the most hope for others when what works is seen as present in the Facilitator’s experience. However, being a “peer” in a WRAP® workshop is not defined by patient identities or illness. An essential value of WRAP® Facilitation is that “difficult feelings and behaviors are seen as normal responses to traumatic circumstances and in the context of what is happening and not as symptoms or a diagnosis”. Also it is a practice that “clinical, medical and diagnostic language is avoided” in facilitation of WRAP® classes. Practicing these values and ethics in facilitation is critical to ensure that WRAP® is a tool for recovery and healing from trauma. Regardless of identifying as a peer or a person in trauma recovery, WRAP® is for everyone and anyone may find quality of life benefits in taking this WRAP course.

This course is beneficial for people seeking recovery from trauma or  anybody supporters of trauma survivors utilizing WRAP.  WRAP Facilitators are encouraged to attend and will receive the recommended refresher credit.

Dates: June 27-29

Location: Temenos Interfaith Retreat Center, West Chester, PA. Retreat Center link: http://www.temenosinterfaithretreat.org/

Tuition: $350 including lunch. Shared lodging available on site for $100 for the nights of June 26, 27, 28. The Copeland Center will provide lunch; all other meals are on your own. Participants are responsible for their own transportation.

To Apply: http://tinyurl.com/WRAPandTrauma2012

Once you have put in an application, you will receive an email from our staff. Payment of the tuition will hold your space in the training.

WRAP Facilitation is a training program developed and implemented by the Copeland Center for Wellness & Recovery based on ongoing consultation with Mary Ellen Copeland, her associates, Mental Health Recovery and WRAP facilitators and people with a lived experience in recovery. In order to improve skills and stay informed regarding effective approaches to WRAP Facilitation continued learning is imperative. It is recommended that WRAP Facilitators attend a Refresher Course at least once every two year in order to stay up to date on developments and best practices.

Course Description: The WRAP Refresher Course is a three-day, interactive course co-facilitated by Copeland Center Advanced Level Facilitators, Gina Calhoun and Eric Larson, to sharpen and expand facilitation skills to further engage groups in the Wellness Recovery Action Planning.

Through attendance in this course WRAP Facilitators will:

1)    Recognize expanded options on how to give effective group introductions.

2)    Identify additional knowledge areas, values and ethics of WRAP.

3)    Apply at least one new skill to sharpen and expand group facilitation skills.

4)    Develop new and creative approaches to facilitation to accommodate participant challenges and differing group needs.

Those who participate in this training will receive a certificate for completing this 24-hour training. This training can used for continuing education credit requirements for CPS and others. Please contact the Copeland Center for more information.

Recommended for WRAP Facilitators to enhance knowledge and skills with WRAP and to get updates on implementing WRAP as an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP).

Tuition: $750 includes lunch and all training materials.

To register: http://tinyurl.com/WRAPrefresher7-12

Spend five days with Copeland Center staff learning to become a Mental Health Recovery Educator designed to help you become a powerful change agent/recovery educator as a WRAP Facilitator. You will gain a deeper understanding of the recovery process and learn to:

• work with people who have mental health challenges to discover the strengths they have and can use to enhance their recovery;
• effectively share the underlying concepts necessary to recovery: hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy, and support;
• work with individuals and groups to develop a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP),
• teach about wellness tools and strategies;
• empower and motivate people to work toward recovery – feeling the way they want to feel, making their lives the way they want them to be, and moving toward meeting their life goals;
• use interaction and presentation styles and strategies that enhance recovery.

Thousands across the US and the world have trained as WRAP Facilitators and those people are changing the mental health system to honor people’s recovery journeys. This course models the behavior of a facilitator in a WRAP class and stresses authenticity and unconditional high regard, as well as a strong set of values and ethics to guide your work.

This training will take place at the Marlboro College Graduate Center in downtown Brattleboro, VT.