A Sample of Testimonials from Participants of IPS Core Trainings
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“A redefining training that will both challenge and inspire. Insightful, well-developed and wonderfully delivered.”
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“Incredible professional development opportunity. I’ve felt extremely privileged to be involved in such a phenomenal movement towards peer work. Keep spreading the word and enhancing the work we do as peer workers. The trainers have a fantastic and relaxed way of presenting. Thank you!”
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“IPS training helped restore some hope for increasing my abilities as a member of the human tribe. The ability to be authentic, transparent, to make lasting connections and most importantly, to hold multiple truths.”
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“I have found Intentional Peer Support to be a philosophy guided by values, honesty, and heart, and is a way of re-thinking and re-working the way communities approach relationships with individuals, in both personal and professional life.”
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“In order to deliver this information and open up discussions on these topics, it takes people who display a passion and presence that both trainers bring into the room. This training reinforced my belief that the most useful tool I bring to my workplace is not necessarily ‘my story’, but in fact it is my humanity.”
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“The trainers presented a fun, informative, educational, interesting, inspiring training session which can have an impact and be a benefit for any peer support worker.”
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“Intentional Peer Support has offered me for the first time a solid theory to inform my work as a peer support worker. Until now, I have wondered how am I expected to utilize my lived experience in a therapeutic way but the five day training has clearly and concisely offered me a solid base from which to operate. I cant wait to bring this back to my organization and really be an agent of change.”
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“I found IPS to be an effective, focused, and broad-spectrum training. The facilitators were able to reach a wide demographic of participants, from various levels of educational background, with a relative ease and accuracy.”
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“So much material, moved through as thoroughly as time would permit. The engagement of the trainers fostered engagement in the participants. I feel Intentional Peer Support was modeled as much as it was taught.”
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“This training is very valuable for people who would like to focus on the interpersonal relationship of working with clients/people in any area of mental health and can enhance existing work skills.”
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“If I had only a single training to send staff, it would be IPS without hesitation. A must for anybody currently in this field or aspiring to be. To characterize it as a training is a disservice. It was a life-changing event.”
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“Most relevant training for peer workers, challenging but very much rewarding. Beautiful Framework!”
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“ The facilitators are great, skillful and knowledgeable. This is a holistic approach that applies to communication internal and external to work. There are no barriers.”
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“I highly recommend this course for anyone who want to have a deeper connection to both themselves and other and who wants to embark on a journey of discovery.”
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“IPS training opened the door to a new way of understanding how to connect and reflect on relationships and to sit comfortably with multiple truths.”
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“The training challenged me to re-evaluate the way I look at relationships. Moving from fear to hope, from helper to learner and the concept of sitting with multiple truths all resonated with me.”
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“This training broadened my view of IPS and increased self awareness. IPS principles and beliefs sit perfectly with mine, and gave me a sense of belonging.”
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“The trainers were amazing, open, honest and willing to be challenged. Engagement with them and the whole group was very useful.”
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“WARNING!!! LIFE-CHANGING! Really though, this training will help you grow, not just professionally but personally. At least it did for me.”
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“For me the IPS Training was like someone dropping a fistful of pennies. It truly is a life-changing experience, like being taught how to play one of the most beautiful instruments known to man: a mutually beneficial conversation.”
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“A life-changing, perspective-altering, mind-opening experience. I now have the tool kit I instinctively knew I needed.”
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“I found the IPS training extremely helpful especially as it is so beneficial in my role as a peer support worker. I believe I’ve come away with a whole new perspective and insight that encourages growth and hope. Many skills will be add to my life skills toolbox. I look forward to implementing IPS.”
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“Go on, push and challenge yourself. Try the training, there’s so much to gain. Take the risk, you’ll be glad you did.”
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“I found the material was presented clearly and coherently. The training was stimulating and although challenging at times the learning outcome was positive. I particularly enjoyed being part of a group of individuals that over the course of the week developed into a group with strong connections. Try it you can’t lose.”
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“The IPS 5 day training is among the best and most worthwhile training I have done in my 10-year career. It’s real, relatable and refreshing. Definitely a 10/10.”
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“IPS has completely challenged and changed the way I look at the relationships between myself and clients. I strongly recommend this training to anyone who works in mental health field.”
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“Great energy! What a great team training!”
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“This training was awesome and life-changing”
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“All peer specialist should be required to take this training. It gave me a way to look at myself, my relationships, professionally and personally, like I had not considered before. It’s all about making that connection on a deeper level, on a more human level. I am excited to go back to work towards forming common goals with those I work with.”
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“The trainers were so knowledgeable, helpful, fun, and really made the course enjoyable. I learned so much from them.”
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“Thank you for the absolute great energy. It really brought home the feeling of connection, mutuality and moving towards. I appreciated all the worldviews.”
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“I gained valuable skills that I will intentionally use; especially at the respite center. Love the style of trainers.”
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“Loved the role-playing and getting connected, this made it very up close and personal where you get to know everyone in the training.
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“Really enjoyed the concepts, wouldn’t change a thing!”
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“This has opened my eyes to a whole new way of approaching other peers on a different level. Was very unique in style and content, and was amazing.”
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“This training has changed my life and worldview for the better. I’ve learned so much about how to talk to and just be with a person without trying to fix everything for them.”
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“IPS training has removed the cataracts that had grown over my eyes. It created a space in which I could grow and view not only my work life but my whole life with such a fresh and new perspective. It has shed light into the trap of ‘doing recovery’ to another in which I had fallen into and created a ladder for me to climb out so I can just be with all those I am in a relationship with.”
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“This is a transformative training. It is real and authentic and I believe it will take my work to a whole new level.”
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“I wish I had this training before any other training, so I could be stronger myself and to learn to listen differently to what others are saying and not get mixed into all the medical model of me.”
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“This training really drills into the cultural sensitivity and ethics pieces. Great inter-activities, challenging role plays, gallery walks and dynamic check-ins.”
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“This training helped me to remember to do my best to develop healthy connections with everyone I encounter.”
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“As a WRAP facilitator, CPS and a person with lived experience, IPS impacted my views more than what I imagined! I understand why I had to be ‘built by fire’. Thank you. It was great and leave it pure with the humbleness the trainers brought forth.”
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“Very impactful and insightful. Learning to see connections, worldview, mutuality. And moving towards the unknown of tomorrow brings excitement for me and I’m glad to be a part of a system change that is coming!”
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“The training open my eyes whereas I couldn’t see – the training gave me a sense of hope where there was despair”
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“I found IPS to be an effective, focused and broad-spectrum training. The facilitators were able to reach a wide demographic of participants from varied level of education background, with relative ease and accuracy.”
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“IPS training helped restore some hope for increasing my abilities as a member of the human tribe. The ability to be authentic, transparent to make lasting connections and most importantly, to hold multiple truths.”
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“Life changing. This changed ME. Appropriate for anyone who wants to start changing the world by being that change. Can be used forever.”
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“This training will challenge any and all preconceived notions of what it truly means to be a peer. You will be educated, informed and challenged, and leave a better person and peer as a direct result. Highly, highly recommend it! The facilitators were great!
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“The Atlanta IPS was like actualizing church. We gave our testimonies, baptized ourselves in new worldviews and are now moving towards spreading the lessons of IPS as a way of life in peer support.”
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“This was a wonderful presentation and I was forced to open my eyes to a worldview. It was intense but I shut up and listened and learned. A-LOT!”
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“The facilitators were kind, skilled, fun, caring persons. Their stories were powerful. I appreciate the facilitators putting themselves out there and modeling IPS- walking the talk.”
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“This training helped me face my biggest fear – to talk to and be with someone with suicidal feelings. I was actually able to “be” with my fear, so I was able to just “be” with hers.”
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“There is no size fits all in IPS.”
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“This training was awesome I will definitely pass on this information about the training to my fellow peers.”
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“What a beautiful universal training that can benefit mankind. Hopefully it will be embraced by all.”
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“There are always new things to learn in life. Learning to navigate relationships is a foundation for most life experiences. IPS has given me a larger foundation to grow from. Best training.”
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“If you want to know how to do peer support relationships well then you should take the IPS training. The facilitators were able to show us how to make connections with peers.”
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“One of the hardest skills to learn is to just listen. To just be there and not try to fix.”
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“Website has wealth of truly informational info. Also the dialogue is excellent.”
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“This is great time of bonding and learning as we grow deeper in knowing ourselves and others.”
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“This training was exactly what I needed I was able to learn new tools to assist myself and peers in any type of environment. I love that I was able to learn skills. The are life-changing.”
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“I hope to become the train or skilled knowledgeable as you to by far the best training I have participated in quite possibly the best most inspiring week of my life IPS challenge my beliefs and worldviews in a way I never anticipated it’s all about connection.”
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“Thank you so much! This training has refreshed my hope that your support is and does change our lives and helps us build healthy relationships that can and will strengthen all of humanity”
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“Absolutely a wonderful training! A lot of new and Incredibly informative material I had never come across before. Mad props to the facilitators for making it interesting!”
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“I strongly recommend this training for all CPS people and anyone working in the mental health field.”
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“IPS has shown me a whole new way a better way to be a peer specialist. Not only at work with my peers and co-workers but also in my personal life.”
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“This course was the most intense course in peer support I’ve ever taken, and at the same time probably the most meaningful. I feel that I am already practicing some of the concepts in role plays and at home, and I can see how the concepts will help me with coworkers, supervisors and any human being I have contact with, leading to more relationships and rewarding and enriching experience”
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“This has been the most powerful peer training I have been to yet. I would like additional training and be interested in becoming an IPS facilitator.”
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“I would highly recommend everyone attend this training. It is a positively transformative experience.”
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“Intentional support training gave me a gift. It provided a powerful shift in my perception of some long-standing issues within myself that are life-changing.”
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“PS has really helped to see peer support a learning platform. The information that was presented will help to build up a relationship with the people in working with not try to fix them because they’re not broken. Just need someone to hear them out.”
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“This training has been life-changing. I have always, secretly discussed alternative views of mental health with the folks I work with, but this training has made me more confident about voicing my thoughts and the research on alternatives to the standard medical model.”
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“The IPS training allowed me to better understand relationships with the peers I work with.”
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“IPS is very powerful and the instructors are very dedicated and enthusiastic and dynamic.”
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“The trainers were personable and well-informed on all material and confidently presented. They were a pleasure.”
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“Excellent training! Very Hands-On. Tools I can use today. Thank you!”
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“I realized I’m in the training I could apply this in my family. I made a phone call to reconnect with my 14 year old son, I use the training. We agreed to meet tomorrow. So I’m grateful to the trainers for teaching with clarity”
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“This class was amazing. The instructors knew the information forwards and backwards which allowed for a lot of personal experience and personal scenarios which brought the instructors even closer to the class. The trainers are dynamite who work very well together.”
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“My testimony is that this training has taught me ways of how to start taking care of myself. To make connections with peers and individuals needing service. My life has taken on a new meaning. As I continue to learn worldview is so important to us all especially after we discover what it is.”
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“I am seeing with new eyes after this training. I am more aware of my beauty and able to reflect that to others. Be a mirror of light in the world!”
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“The trainers were insightful and knowledgeable. It’s not easy to unlearn polluted messages. However it’s necessary to be present in the moment… Together.”
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“IPS is another great tool to enhance appears ability to efficiently and supportive we provide support to the people they serve.”
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“This awesome, such a wonderful way to participate in life and relationships.”
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“This training provided so much insight to me. I received valuable information that will be useful to me not only at the peer run support center where I work but also in my day-to-day relationships. I’m so very grateful! The trainers rock! This training changed my life”
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“IPS was eye-opening, and in-depth look into the core of relationships and how they are built throughout life. It afforded me the opportunity to stay authentic to my worldview while respecting and appreciating the worldview of others. It was simply amazing!”
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“You must attend and IPS training to enrich your life as you travel on your journey as a peer supporter.
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“Just go”
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“This IPS train has given me a whole new outlook on my worldview, and others. It has really been an eye-opener!”
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“IPS is the place to be if you want to get to know you and me…”
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“IPS has opened up a whole world of possibilities for me and those I will come in contact with because I’ve changed.”
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“I arrived at the start of the training in the place of disempowerment and low self-esteem, evident in my posture and Outlook. By day 3, I was not only standing and sitting erect, my eyes and spirit are lifted and looking out and away From my own fears and obstacles and feelings of disempowerment, to a place of Joyful curiosity and relaxed experimentation in speaking, seeing, thinking and learning new ideas, and trusting myself to be present. I have allowed myself to pause, to quiet my fears and insecurities, and to embrace my right and my responsibility to participate in a manner of honesty and kindness. I give myself permission to be kind and to be curious, all of the time period in five days, with amazing leadership from Eva and Stephen, and with support and encouragement from my peers, I have developed a buoyancy that will no longer be compromised. Thank you!”
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“I highly recommend this course for anyone who wants to have a deeper connection to both themselves and others and who wants to embark on a journey of discovery.”
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“IPS training opened the door to a new way of understanding how to connect and reflect on relationships and to sit comfortably with multiple truths.”
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“The training was so challenging, but I think that its usefulness is just unfolding.”
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“I started off the week feeling hesitant about the training, and unsure if I wanted to be there. But by the end of the week and even one day and I was so glad to be there, I got so much from it.”
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“I have found intentional peer support to be a philosophy Guided by values honesty and heart, and is a way of rethinking and reworking the way communities approach relationships with all individuals, in both personal and professional life this was an invaluable learning life experience.”
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“This training brought in my view of IPS and increase self-awareness. IPS principles and beliefs fit perfectly with mine, and gave me a sense of belonging.”
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“Warning!!! Life changing!!! Really though, this training will help you bro, not just professionally, but personally. At least it did for me.”
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“I always thought that my job was to help and make change in others, focusing only on their story. I now know that the untold story is the story! And listening / reflecting with them, is more important in their road to recovery.”
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“You have challenged how I do peer support by showing me the importance of mutuality and relationship. I am keen to bring this learning back to my workplace and put into practice.”
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“I found the IPS training extremely helpful especially as it is so beneficial in my role as an IPS worker. I believe I’ve come away with a whole new perspective and insight that encourage growth and hope. Many skills will be added to my life skills toolbox. I look forward to implementing IPS.”
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“Try it you can’t lose.”
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“The IPS 5 day training is among the best and most worthwhile training I have done in my 10 year career. It’s real relatable and refreshing. Definitely a 10 out of 10.”
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“IPS has completely changed and challenged the way I look at the relationship between myself and my client. I strongly recommend IPS training to anyone who works in the mental health field.”
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“IPS has been a great informational tool in how to change my attitude towards the homeless community in that they are my peers instead of people without homes.”
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“The training was a lot deeper and more helpful than I ever would have expected.”
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“These tools bridge the communication gap felt not only in professional lives but also in personal lives, creating real connections.”
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“Should be a requirement of all mental health providers.”
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“Come to IPS and see the transformation of yourself with others.”
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“This training impacted my personal life and motivated me to apply it in my daily life until I improve it more and more. It was fun, and full of surprises and good sense of humor. I made me feel myself.”
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“This is great, essential training for anyone in a peer based industry. It really opened my eyes to new techniques and a new way of looking at recovery.”
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“IPS has opened my eyes to new ways to approach old situations.”
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“Thank you for these vital tools! I have used each one of them and improved the quality of the relationship each time.”
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“I will attempt to remove my own judgments and preconceived ideas and use my curiosity to understand people with a diversity of needs on a deeper level. I will not force or try to coerce people to see it my way.”
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“Thanks to both of you for putting so much into this training. I learned so much! I am so very grateful.”
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“A lot of fun, humorous at times. Dealing with serious subjects as well, which piques my intellectual curiosity!”
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“The IPS training enhanced my training and role as a Certified Peer Specialist.”
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“IPS will help me relate to people in new and useful ways.”
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“IPS should be part of everyone’s life.”
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“If I had only a single training to send staff, it would be IPS without hesitation. A must for anybody currently in this field or aspiring to be. To characterize it as a training is a disservice–it was a life-changing event.”
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“This is a life changing, perspective altering, mind opening experience. I now have the tool kit I knew I needed instinctively, but can practice using with people.”
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“Thank you for allowing me to share my worldviews with you and sharing yours with me.”
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“The trainers led a wonderful and informative training. They explained the material well.”
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“Stephen and Beth led a wonderful and informative training. They explained the material well.”
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“This experience has changed the way I think about the medical model, the power of peers, the strength and hope that comes with recovery.”
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“This is liberation that just might one day change the world.”
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“These last five days have changed my life. I never expected the intensity of emotions and feelings it would evoke in me. I feel completely transformed.”
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“IPS gave me an opportunity to grow, to learn that will hopefully allow others to grow with me promoting change.”
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“I came in working and living as a peer. I came out ever more confident that peer perspective is worth my taking risks, even if it means leaving what I know to not be working behind.”
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“The week long IPS training lead me to learn amazing things about myself. I believe I will be able to pass on these special gifts to my peers everyday. This was a life changing, joyful experience.”
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“IPS is a perfect example of the positive direction in which the peer support ‘movement’ is heading.”
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“The IPS Training has awakened me to all the avenues in peer support.”
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“I loved the personal stories. It was a very enjoyable experience for me. The personal stories were very good and very enhancing.”
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“As a child I never knew what was wrong, why I felt so empty, and sitting in the training class it was revealed that I was disconnected. That’s why you have to stay connected and build connections.”
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“The best and most helpful model for working in peer support.”
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“I had a great time. this opportunity has opened my eyes to a new way of serving as a peer and mentor.”
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“Me being a part of the IPS Training has really really helped me see my work and life skills in a whole new perspective. It has helped me to be able to sit through my discomforts and truly understand mutuality between two people who want and are building upon a relationship. Everyone has their own opinions that they are entitled to so that helped me see the Worldview and know I don’t have to agree with it all but at least listen and get to know others views, perspectives, etc. and at least gain some understanding of it. The IPS Training also has helped me in building a stronger healthier and more trusting relationship with my co-workers, not only my co-workers but make healthy connections with whoever I meet. The greatest thing I walk away with is that we are all unique in our own way. No one is broken, we don’t need to be fixed, don’t expect to change them, rather help them by working on myself daily and live what I speak about and not just talk. Go through and grow, and not get stuck in the middle.”
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“Keep kicking ass folks”
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“IPS is not a training, a practice or curriculum, it’s a lifestyle.”
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“Everyone no matter your profession place in this world should take this course! Regardless of lived experience this course can open your mind to so much more than you had thought.”
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“I am a first-timer to any type of training with a group of people. I really enjoyed this and took with me so much to carry on in my job and daily living. Thank you IPS and the team.”
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“Absolutely essential approach to learn for anyone in a human services field not to mention that it is a fun experience.”
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“The IPS training is extremely valuable for people in a multitude of areas in the Mental Health Human Services field and the trainer’s communicate excellently and provide thought-provoking ideas and materials throughout the entire training.”
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“I found this IPS training a wonderful journey of self-discovery which in turn helps me to create better connection worldview mutuality and possibilities.”
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“IPS provides a framework in which to exist in the way that one can be ever connected and continuing to learn about the world and move toward healing Wellness & Recovery I wish everyone in the world could take IPS. This is what we need to be teaching our youth.”
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“IPS equals game-changer! Thank you trainers and all who had anything to do with creating this framework. You have rejuvenated my passion for my work and life. You have given me the best gift…”
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“This was the most challenging and transformative training I’ve experienced in over 20 years. It will take work and commitment and I believe it will change the way I work and live.”
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“IPS help me gain a sense of mutuality that will be helpful in my work as a therapist, and most of all as a person.”
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“This training was a wealth of information. I expected that. But I did not expect was to find healing for myself… What a welcome benefit.”
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“IPS training has allowed me to do life differently. IPS training has given me additional tools and skills that help me to connect with others”
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“I Have A New Perspective and outlook on peer support. Being open to the task of IPS and being mindful to use it will bring so many people to a sense of well-being.”
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“I want to thank all the trainers everyone apart of IPS. You all are truly a part of something wonderful and amazing. This training was not easy emotionally. Be prepared for a challenge but come the end of the week you will show great appreciation and passion for such a wonderful tool that’s truly missing in mental health practice.”
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“IPS is life-changing experience and insightful view of the peer world that is free of judgment. It leaves room for people to grow in a very positive way.”
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“IPS was a wonderful and challenging training and experience! The trainers kept the flow and energy to enhance the great learning environment.”
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“IPS was an incredible learning experience that allowed participants to explore all the concepts shared. There was an authenticity of bonding among us all a place of safety and celebration of each participant’s individuality and strength. IPS is a testimony to resilience community and how to create an impact your peers in our shared world”
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“I want to thank you and Steve for all your doing to create equality and respect in the world.”
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“I was in role playing with Stephen and I was the one who was having visions of snakes. I got into it and felt even though I never had this experience I felt transformed by the IPS that was happening. The focus was not on the snakes but on my emotional state and I shortly felt like I was going to be okay and relax no matter where I was in my process. I got the power of this work and how I didn’t need to rush into fixing with medical etc which I would have. I felt this was the point where the fixing…”
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“Thank you IPS Stephen and Eva brought the training to life with a strong role plays and examples of kind of appropriate language.”
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“This has been by far the most inspirational yet practical training that has the potential to positively impact every relationship we have in our lives. It absolutely connects us all as human beings.”
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“As someone who works in the field that doesn’t have mental health lived experience I found this training in the trainer’s perspective to be extremely useful. What I mean by that is getting the perspective of the person who does have lived experience is vital to me being an effective person in peer support.”
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“There’s a huge shift happening and peer support in California as we prepare for state certification. This training shows how we can keep it real when they almost certainly will be pressures to become like the mental health existing system we need to stay grounded and what good peer support is and that is IPS.”
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“I feel passionate in the change that this training will make in our community. It only takes one person to start that shift and I’m looking at 22 other people ready to use their knowledge and make a difference not only in the lives of others but their own as well. Thank you cannot begin to describe my gratitude and motivation.”
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“You brought the pure movement into our house and the community. The presence there and the learning was intense and meaningful. It will stay with me as an important paste with in my life.”
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“Real is better than perfect.”
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“To share and have empathy for each other connecting is important in supporting each other to be able to heal and grow.”
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“Intentional peer support as a worthwhile training. And enhance what I already knew about peer support and made it more manageable. Thank you.”
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“Excellent insightful hands-on training for peer support specialist.”
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“Gave me hope for how we can provide service delivery in a way that honors the individual’s truth.”
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“Totally professional and engaging in the best possible way. Terrific use of a variety of teaching methods humor your reverence and a sprinkling of some well space the curse words. Plus a small dose of radical politics”
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“IPS gave me a different perspective on the way we currently implement peer support. The trainers Eva and Steven effectively model this difficult approach and they both have incredible energy. IPS gave me a lot more insight into myself and helped me understand the possibility for both parties to grow through mutual learning”
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“You guys were great and gave us a lot to think over and we will forever be better peer supporters as a result of this training.”
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“The concepts in this training are key to keeping a humanness in the mental health profession.”
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“Having PTSD I find it hard to connect with everyone. But I felt very at ease this week around other like-minded individuals. This training help me reconnect and become more self-aware.”
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“This training is a great way to challenge your assumption that you are a person centered practitioner.”
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“This was a very beneficial training. I learned a lot about doing things differently. The concept of worldview was very helpful.”
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“You must experience training for anyone who is passionate about helping others in need.”
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“Thanks for putting human back into Human Services”
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“This training can and will inspire you for positive change. It was the most motivational and inspiring training that I’ve ever attended. It has changed me as a person and the way I will relate to others for the better forever.”
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“I wish this program was around for me I think that along with therapy I just needed someone to be able to validate my feelings, maybe not say understand what’s going on but to just say it’s okay to feel that in the moment”
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“This training helped me to challenge my old ways of thinking. It’s opened up new possibilities for me.”
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“Leaving today I have a view of relationships I never imagined I would have.”
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“The quality of all my relationships have grown and improved by Leaps and Bounds! The world would be a better place if everyone had this knowledge.”
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“The trainers are a perfect duo and balance different ways of learning really well. We all have different styles of learning and we constantly need feedback from our peers to move towards growth. I learned that the relationship is the most important aspect of peer support specialist and that through PSS the opportunities for growth are endless.”
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“I thought the training would teach the house. But it also brought the why and to focus.”
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“Incredible professional development opportunity. I felt extremely privileged to be involved in such a phenomenal movement towards your work. Keep spreading the word on enhancing the work we do if your workers. Stephen and Eva have a fantastic and relaxed way of presenting. Thank you.”
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“Redefining training that will both challenge and inspire. Insightful well-developed and wonderfully delivered.”
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“The trainers presented a fun informative educational interesting inspirational training session which can have an impact and be a benefit for any peer support mentor.”
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“Intentional peer support has offered me for the first time a solid Theory to inform I work as a peer support worker. Up until now I have wondered how I am expected to utilize my lived experience in a therapeutic way but the 5 day training as clearly and concisely offered me a solid base from which to operate. I can’t wait to bring this back to my organization and really be an agent of change.”
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“So much material move through as thoroughly as time would permit. The engagement of the waivers fostered engagement and the participants. I feel like peer support was modeled as much as it was taught.”
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“If you need a perspective on practical skills for working with damaged people this is a great place to start.”
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“This training is very valuable for people who would like to focus on the interpersonal relationship of working with clients and patients”
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“Great training for professional and personal life where every belief about mental illness was challenged.”
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“Most relevant training for peer workers challenging but very much rewarding beautiful frame work!”
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“The facilitators are great skillful and knowledgeable. This is a holistic approach that applies to communication internal and external to work. There are no barriers.”
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“This week has been emotionally amazing for me. I have uncovered a lot of my own personal worldview and untold story. So much is being revealed. I’m looking forward to learning the rest of my story.”
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“I’ve been working on improving relationships for a long time. The tools and ideas I learned in this training give me an idea of how to go about it.”
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“I experienced a concern for the people I support being more open-minded about their worldview and connecting more with them”
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“Everyone should take IPS! Definitely impacted my life my worldview and I’m excited to put it in practice. Thank you to the trainers for keeping real and exciting!
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“I really enjoy the IPS training period it has given me some tools that I can’t wait to apply to my daily life.”
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“IPS training was a life-changing experience for me. It has provided me with a way to not only see but to feel and touch the society and untold story.”
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“I was very happy with the way we all as a group learn from each other.”
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“To change the way you view yourself is to change the way you view the world. IPS gives you a tour of your emotional DNA and allows you to truly understand how you are made up, which prepares you to impact the movement.”
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“I consider the trainers to be the most genuine and down-to-earth facilitators while remaining ever present.”
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“I believe our peers in the mental health system should take intentional peer support. This is a foundational training in our work.”
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“This was a life-changing experience. I connected with myself as well as others.”
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“This is awesome I was engaged throughout! Numerous light bulb moments throughout the week! I think this is a lens I will continue to use both practical and personal relationships.”
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“A real eye-opening experience going through this training. Has built confidence in myself to try a new approach is allowing for a deeper more mutually respected connection to be built thank you to the trainers for an amazing week”
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“IPS is more than just training it’s a reevaluation on how we interact as human beings.”
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“I like the idea that this is giving me a different approach when communicating with people and how to build a connection.”
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“The IPS training created an alternate way of thinking about what is mental illness giving back since of power and ownership of my life and experiences rather than allowing someone to Define who I am. Benjamin Haley senior peer worker.”
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“This training has been ground-breaking. It has challenged me and been a gift to our organization. Personal stories and experiences of people with lived experience of mental health issues will be validated listen to and learn from on such a deeper and more connected level following the experience of this training. What an honor thank you.”
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“This training has been life-changing. It’s been 20 years suffering in darkness and solitude, 20 years being told it was all in my head , 8 years studying and learning the academic model and 1 week learning I am human and I am of value and finally also able to help someone else.”
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“This training has given me so much insight and education so I am confident. I will better be able to handle situations that may occur in the future.”
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“I was told by several co-workers who previously attended this training that it would rock my world it did!”
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“I believe if this training is given after a WRAP to the people their personal recovery would be stronger because their relationship would be.”
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“I am honored to be a part of such a purposeful moment. I truly enjoy the growth and experience thank you!”
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“This is a life-changing training. Thank you.”
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“I will. Truly we have been given a gift that cannot be contained.”
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“They the bomb!”
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“This program has been life-changing for me. I am now a better me. I was challenged in such a good way!”
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“This training has showed me how to be in a conversation and connect with a person. That all these are valid and empowering people and yourself is important to being able to move forward in our recovery.”
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“This is a training I feel everyone can learn from. Professional and peer like. I change from professional distance I am here and we can do this together.”
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“Useful stuff! IPS will definitely help me with all my relationships work family and friends thank you.”
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“This is a compassionate way to be with others to understand the powerful effect this can have on others might even make the world a better place!”
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“This was a great training and everyone that works in any type of patient client relations type job should attend.”
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“The training has given me unique insight into a new way of being in the world that lets me Forge close bonds with others.”
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“I came to this training dreading spending 5 days with a co-worker I have a history of not getting along with. And 5 days we have grown so much closer and we both plan to use this training to continue strengthening our relations.”
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“This training is powerfully strengthened my insights, clarity and personal vulnerability. Thank you so much”
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“The core IPS training is invaluable for anyone in mental health therapy or human services. And its core it is a shot of humanism compassion and love into a field notorious for dehumanization and abuse.”
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“This training was truly eye-opening it change me and I have a new understanding of what intentional peer support really is. I felt truly privileged to be part of this training and have hope for the future of peer support peer services”
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“I cannot believe how emotional this week has been. I will go back and really listen to my clients. I will also have so much new material to use on them that I have learned.”
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“This was most the best experience and learning about The Human Condition. I have been in a long time it was a gift. Illegible.”
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“I will email a testimonial as I want to make it well thought out and need a little more time to write it up.”
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“This training is completely life-changing thank you Chris Eva and of course Sherri. You will have made me a better person.”
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“Truly an awesome and completely useful training”
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“I learned to take the “house” of my childhood and become a tree. A strong and abundant willow tree where my roots are deeply grounded and the story of my life is my branches and leaves blowing gently in the wind.”
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“IPS is very enlightening, informational, fun, worth your week and most of all, it’s mutual.”
“IPS can and will change the world!”
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“Intentional peer support is the most effective model of working for peer services that I have encountered. Instead of viewing mental health as something we “suffer from” it is a journey we can move forward from. This cultural shift can change the direction of mental health services for the better.”
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“I spent 25 years as a fast food restaurant manager, 10 years of which I was a certified training manager. I came here believing I knew a lot about communicating. This course changed everything.”
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“This mode of communication will help me to respond to other people rather than feel responsible for their issues, feelings, or actions. After completing the training I was struck by the universality of the concepts and how it would benefit the world if they were taught as a part of general education.”
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“It has been very thought provoking and shifted my entire worldview of communications, relationships, and peer support.”
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“IPS offers a way of being in the world – whether or not we’re working in conventional or alternative mental health – which is congruent with a healing and recovery-based community. It can be life changing. It was for me.”
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“I believe this new approach is going to be very affective.”
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“This is an excellent course. The instructors are wonderful. Learn ways to help each other when the going gets really hard. These tools will help when you don’t know what to say to another hurting person.”
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“I like IPS because it gives you a different view on life and other people. Sometimes just listening is all somebody wants. IPS is very important to know.”
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“IPS has opened up a whole new world for me. Learning how to connect with my peers and honor their worldview and remain mutual; being intentional about my relationships”
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“I’ve learned just as much about myself and my interactions which was a nice surprise.”
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“IPS isn’t just a skill, it’s a way of life.”
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“This seminar is useful not only as a professional but also in daily living. I recommend it to everybody. It was extremely formative.”
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