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.
In this 1-hour webinar, we will use Spring Up’s power mapping tool to discuss the intersectional power dynamics at play in many mental health, recovery, and peer support spaces. We will also explore how social norms of coercion and control show up in everyday communication and decision-making in relationships. Participants will collaboratively uncover how we internalize social scripts that shape our communication and expectations within support relationships.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify at least one internalized script that shows up in their communication and decision-making processes.
- Name at least three different types of power that might be present in a peer specialist dynamic.
- Discern between the four different communication styles.
Presented by: Mara K. Martinez-Hewitt and Brianna Suslovic
Mara K. Martinez-Hewitt, AMFT is a queer artist, decolonizing facilitator and community organizer living in the occupied Tongva lands of Los Angeles. They focus on healing justice for survivors, pleasure activism, land rematriation, DIY mental health and mutual aid efforts beyond borders. Mara is a member-owner at Spring Up and stewards the mediation program and Outreach. In their free time, they celebrate music on their dublab radio show, Discoteca 3ala Mars.
Brianna Suslovic is a PhD candidate, organizer, and care worker currently residing in Chicago, IL. With a background in social work and public defense, she strongly supports peer specialist interventions as an effective way to mobilize knowledge that can only come from lived experience. She is a member-owner of Spring Up and supports the collective’s learning platform, bluelight.academy.
This is part of Doors to Wellbeing's Peer Specialist Webinar Series.
