January 2023 CPS & CPPS Supervisor’s Community of Practice
February 23rd, 2023 from 1:30 – 3:00 pm CT
Peter Bullimore
The chair of the National Paranoia Network, Pete Bullimore, is testament to how effective accepting and working with voices and paranoia can be.
Pete heard his first voice aged seven. “I heard a child’s voice telling me to keep going, that everything would be OK. It was reassuring, a bit like an imaginary friend,” he says. But as bad things happened in my life the voices increased in number, eventually turning sinister and aggressive. “They told me to set myself on fire, to slash myself and destroy myself, often 20 or 30 voices all shouting at me at once,” he says. By his mid-twenties Pete had lost his business, his family, his home, everything. “The voices just encompassed my life; I curled up in a chair and didn’t wash or eat. “I was locked in a world of voices, paranoia and depression, and it was probably the most frightening time of my life,” he says.
Pete spent more than a decade after that on heavy medication, but the voices never went away. He had to get out of the psychiatric system to recover. It was only when he came off the medication and met people who share his experiences at the hearing voices network that he was able to stop being so afraid of the voices and actually start listening to them. He changed his relationship with his voices and worked through the meaning of his voices and paranoia. He now runs his own training and consultancy agency delivering training on hearing voices childhood trauma and paranoia internationally. He is a guest lecturer at fourteen Universities in the UK. He has set up Maastricht Centre’s at the Radbone unit in Derby and the Hartington unit in Chesterfield in collaboration with Derby NHS trust; he has now launched a Maastricht Approach center in Bradford and a National Maastricht Center in Telford
“I wouldn’t want to get rid of my voices now, they’re part of me,” he says.
Workshop will include:
1) How common is it to hear voices?
2) How voices can be experiences in different ways
3) Three phases of hearing voices & understanding the metaphor of voices
4) Thought stopping
5) Short term coping strategies for voices hearer’s
6) The history of paranoia
7) Identifying the role of neglect in paranoia
8 ) The three stages of paranoia
9) Understanding the body state information
10) Working with unusual beliefs
11) Decoding beliefs
We invite you to please fill out the evaluation survey link (click here) if you attended this community of practice gathering or if you watch the recording. The survey will close at 4:30pm on Thursday, March 9th. Certificates of Participation will be sent to those completing the evaluation form by 4:30pm on March 16th, 2023. No evaluation surveys will be accepted for CEH credit after the evaluation survey’s closing date/time.
This website is managed and maintained by staff at Access to Independence working on the Wisconsin Peer Specialist Employment Initiative. The words, views, and values presented herein are not necessarily representative of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
March 17, 2022
March 2022 CPS & CPPS Community of Practice:
“Supporting Inclusivity for Transgender, Non-binary, and Gender Expansive Communities”~ March 17, 2022 from 1:30pm-3pm CST
Guest facilitators:
Nze Okoronta of Soar Case Management, LLC
Nze (they/them or she/hers) is a CPS, CPS trainer, TA Consultant, and the Peer Services Manager for Soar Case Management, Inc. Nze views peer support work as a fundamentally restorative practice and believes it has the power to reduce and prevent systemic harm, support marginalized communities in a more complete way, and bring radical acceptance to the forefront of mental health and substance use care.
Brittyn Calyx of Access to Independence, Wisconsin Peer Specialist Employment Initiative (WIPSEI)
Brittyn (pronouns: xe, xem, xyr or she, her, hers) is a trans femme, non-binary Wisconsin Certified Peer Specialist currently serving as the Peer Specialist Program Manager for the Wisconsin Peer Specialist Employment Initiative at Access to Independence. Xe hopes to expand access to peer support that is rooted in a non-violent, collective liberation framework.
We invite you to please fill out the evaluation survey link (click here) if you attended this community of practice gathering or if you watch the recording. The survey will close at 4:30pm on Thursday, March 31st. Certificates of Participation will be sent to those completing the evaluation form by 4:30pm on April 1st, 2022. No evaluation surveys will be accepted for CEU credit after the evaluation survey’s closing date/time.
This website is managed and maintained by staff at Access to Independence working on the Wisconsin Peer Specialist Employment Initiative. The words, views, and values presented herein are not necessarily representative of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
February 24, 2022
February 2022 Supervisors of CPS & CPPS Community of Practice:
“A Brief Introduction to Navigating Neurodiversity in the Workplace” ~ February 24th, 2022 from 1:30pm-3pm CST
Guest facilitator:
Heather Mroch (she/her and they/them)
Certified Peer Specialist & Parent Peer Specialist
Peer Specialist Trainer, Yoga Teacher, Consultant, Facilitator
Owner, PEERspecitve Wellness
website: www.peerspectivewellness.ppcbrands.com
email: peerspectivetraining@gmail.com
phone: 414-793-6582
Description:
This Supervisors of CPS & CPPS Community of Practice Session will aim to give a general overview of defining neurodivergence, exploring where neurodiversity fits in with a disability justice framework, and addressing how intersectionality can be a barrier to navigating neurodivergence in the workplace. Participants will experience an introduction to the topic and leave with practical tools and resources for further exploration, self advocacy and to support systems transformation.
We invite you to please fill out the evaluation survey link (click here) if you attended this community of practice gathering or if you watch the recording. The survey will close at 4:30pm on Thursday, March 10th. Certificates of Participation will be sent to those completing the evaluation form by 4:30pm on March 17th, 2022. No evaluation surveys will be accepted for CEU credit after the evaluation survey’s closing date/time.
This website is managed and maintained by staff at Access to Independence working on the Wisconsin Peer Specialist Employment Initiative. The words, views, and values presented herein are not necessarily representative of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.