OFFERING PRESENCE: AGENDA FOR THE DAY

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1 OFFERING PRESENCE

2 OFFERING PRESENCE: AGENDA FOR THE DAY! Welcome Moment (:15)! Growing Through Intro (:30)! Presence Session 1. (:45) Being, Intensity and the Journey! Morning Break (:15)! Presence Session 2. (1:15) Positive Listening LUNCH! Offering Session 1. (:45) Listening to Suffering! PM Break (:15)! Offering Session 2. (:45) Offering Hope! Reflection Moment (:15)! Close/Evaluation (:15) OFFERING PRESENCE

3 OFFERING PRESENCE What this workshop Includes:! Introduction to the Growing Through concepts and practices! Introductory Training on 2 Growing Through Practices 1) Presence (Being There) 2) Offering OFFERING PRESENCE

4 OFFERING PRESENCE What this workshop does NOT include: GROWING THROUGH PRACTICES TRAINING!Gleaning*!Visioning!Weaving GT PRO CORE SKILLS SESSIONS!Encountering Intensity!The Heart of Suicide OFFERING PRESENCE

5 OFFERING PRESENCE KNOWLEDGE Objectives-- Participants will understand 1. The Growth approach to crisis and intensity 2. The Big R and the 3 Ls 3. Strengths focused, recovery and phenomenological language related to mental health and suicide including the 5 Ds 4. The concept of Use of Self and Authentic Presence 5. Less-tening and Compassionate Curiosity 6. Offering and the Vice of Advice 7. Offering, Confirming, Qualifying, Inquiring (OCQI) OFFERING PRESENCE

6 OFFERING PRESENCE Skill Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Practice dropping in to self 2. Practice Authentic Encountering 3. Identify and utilize a personal in-touch 4. Open doors and windows 5. Use Positive Inhibition and Compassionate Curiosity in the context of Active Listening (Gleaning) 6. Practice grateful receiving 7. Use the OCQI approach to sharing personal experience OFFERING PRESENCE

7 GT Training Experience Elements (see workbook)! Mindfulness Exercises! Presentations w Q&A! Personal Writing and Discussion! Group Discussion! Role Play! Challenge

8 What you can expect from us! Presence (physical and mental)! Good guidance! A supportive learning environment! Openness to your insight/feedback! A spirit of mutual support! Respect for your individuality and journey

9 What we expect from you! Presence (physical and mental)! Commitment to the learning process! Participation in all exercises! A spirit of mutual support! Openness to a new experience/learning

10 What is Growing Through?! a strengths-based approach to supporting others through personal struggle and emotional intensity including suicidal thoughts and feelings! based in the idea of crisis as key to personal growth! advanced training for community members, service providers and peer specialists on crisis support skills including issues of violence, trauma and suicide! grounded in social/health justice empowerment, the consumer movement, trauma-informed care, disability rights, recovery, and peer support! Informed by humanistic psychology, mindfulness, dialectical behavior therapy and lived experience! GT takes Peer Support beyond service to the community Ally

11 Who are we? Eduardo Vega, MA Creator of Growing Through! Advocate, leader, trainer, consumer activist, author! 15 +years consumer-peer services in nonprofit, government (CEO MHASF , co-founder CAMHPRO, MHSOAC, NMHCSHC)! Person in recovery, 2x suicide attempt survivor! 25+ years in mental health, social services, advocacy including homeless services outreach/shelters,! Nationally/internationally active as leader/advocate/innovator in health and suicide prevention! TRAINING and mentorship of advocates! Social Project Innovation focused on user empowerment in many places around the world

12 Why Growing Through? Consumer Activist leaders at Clifford Beers Award Summit! Consumer empowerment! Peer support! Recovery movement/model! Peer Specialist programs! Humanistic psychology! Suicide and crisis! Heroes we ve known! Limits to mh service availability and quality

13 Why Growing Through! The Way Forward! No truly positive strengths based training for people to support others experiencing Crisis! Lack of effective tools for peer supporters working in intensity settings! Lack of recovery based alternatives to medical model/psychiatric terminology! No Training for sharing your story in the context of support! Limited skills in mh for directly addressing crisis intensity and suicidality Lived Experience of Suicide Summit at MHASF (2012)

14 Growing Through Core Elements Growing Through approaches what is often called crisis from the point-of-view that 1. much of the growth people experience is accompanied by pain, 2. that difficulties we encounter in life are essential to our development as people. 3. Humanizing and valuing the journey of struggle is an ideal way to be with others experiencing it

15 Growth Allies / Peer Relationships Growth Allies are uniquely helpful supporters that! Witness and value the difficult process their Peer is growing through! Live with questions, doubt and fear! Promote their Peers exploration, struggle, personal strength and resources

16 The Growing Through Peer Ally!Wise mind/ Skilled Use of Self!Compassionate Curiosity!Experience of Struggle!Listening Skills!Unconditional Support!Journey Supporter (not solution provider)!walking shoes

17 Core Elements 5 Growing Through Values 1. Recovery Roads. Recovery is an important and ongoing personal process that is unique to each individual. It may not have a clear starting or completion point and may be considered an ongoing process of growth,. 2. Progress in Pain. Emotional and mental pain and distress are non-optional parts of personal recovery. They are not a distraction from it. Personal growth results from difficult experiences and is something deeply personal and individual. 3. Solidarity in Suffering. Despite feeling alone, we are not alone. We can give to others in empathy and be with others even at our darkest moments. 4. Future Fruit. What people experience as crisis in life often paves the way for their future mission and contribution, including discovered meaning and purpose 5. Great Gifts & Gratitude. Every human being is a valuable, with their own beautiful gifts to contribute to the world. To witness another s growth and process is to be honored as well with a special gift

18 Core Elements 5 Growing Through Practices 1. Presence. Being fully present and supportive with the peer through skilled Use of Self. 2. Gleaning/Deep Inquiry. Learning about what the other is experiencing (through supportive Active Listening and Compassionate Curiosity) 3. Visioning. Witnessing, fostering and, if desired, co-creating the vision of a positively transformed future 4. Weaving. Helping the other to identify, develop and integrate personal coping strategies, self-soothing skills etc. to diminish the impact and intensity of the 5 Ds 5. Offering. Sharing experience, hope and resources if and when desired by the peer.

19 Growing Through Core Dignity and Recovery Language! Crisis!Transformation, Suicidality/ Threats! Intensity:! Experiencing crisis--> seeking growth, etc.! 5 Ds. (Discomfort, Distress, Disability and Despair and sometimes thoughts of Death! 5 Ps (Presence, Prospects, Pleasure, Purpose, Perseverance)! Person-first/ non-clinical/ non-pathologizing language.

20 CRISIS TRANSFORMATIVE STRUGGLE HOPELESSNESS SEEKING MEANING MENTALLY ILL SEEKING RECOVERY SUFFERING FROM LIVING WITH* SYMPTOMATIC CHALLENGED WITH

21 SUICIDAL IDEATION EXISTENTIAL DEBATE PSYCHACHE DESPAIR/ANGUISH SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR SEEKING RELIEF MANIA/PRESSURE/ DISTRESS SUICIDAL INTENSITY SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR LETHAL ACTIONS

22 Pain and the Hero s Journey

23 Elixir/Gift Existential Struggle

24 Pain / Relief/ Reward

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26 GROWING THROUGH Key Concepts

27 The Big R

28 The 3 L s! Listen!Listen!Listen

29 The 5 D s!distress!despair!discomfort!disability!death

30 The 5 P s!purpose!prospects!perseverance!presence!pleasure Copyright 2017 Eduardo Vega

31 Not circling / Spiraling Up

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33 WELCOME We all GROW THROUGH Together