FREE Webinar - Peer Decision Coaching: Strengthening Self-Determination and Community Participation
Doors to Wellbeing invites you to join our monthly Peer Specialist Webinar Series. This FREE continuing education opportunity brings experts by experience to expand peer specialist skills, knowledge and best practices. The series is the last Tuesday of every month (except December) at 2pm ET/1pm CT/12pm MT/11am PT.
Peer Decision Coaching: Strengthening Self-Determination and Community Participation
This webinar introduces Peer Decision Coaching, a process involving mutual support between peers to facilitate informed, values-based decisions about community participation in areas such as work, school, leisure, and relationships. The webinar will also share key lessons learned from trying out this approach in practice, including how many people were reached and expressed interest in participating, how participants responded to the intervention, how both participants and peer specialists experienced and viewed the approach, and what factors supported or made it more challenging to use in practice. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect on how these ideas apply to their own work and identify one concrete action step they can take moving forward. While this webinar is designed to be most useful for peer specialists working with young adults, those working with older peers may also find the concepts relevant for supporting community participation and recovery goals.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the key components of Peer Decision Coaching.
2. List at least two strategies for supporting decision-making.
3. Identify at least two common barriers and two facilitators to implementing Peer Decision Coaching.
Presented by: Dr. Elizabeth Thomas
Dr. Elizabeth Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Temple University’s Barnett College of Public Health. She serves as co-Director of the Community Inclusion and Reflective Collaboration Center and an investigator within the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion, both focused on enhancing community inclusion and participation among individuals who experience mental health challenges. Her research focuses on supporting the community participation interests and needs of young adults, with an emphasis on peer support and self-determination. Dr. Thomas’ work has received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. She also serves as an associate editor for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.
Presenter: Eric Larson
Eric Larson has worked on his recovery for over 20 years. His expertise stems from understanding the collective state of his humanity on his own recovery path from emotional torrent, type 1 Diabetes and hearing voices. Eric works with the Copeland Center facilitating Online Workshops. Honing his empathetic abilities and structuring caring communities is his passion. Eric plays his music in his projects Midnight Garden, Wounding of the Bright, and self-publishes his poetry. Some of his main wellness tools are music also include the 12 steps, meditation, cats and reading.
This is part of Doors to Wellbeing's Peer Specialist Webinar Series.
