Скачать или смотреть Social Change, Unifying the Peer Support Workforce, Building Community

Peer Support Specialists Nybelle Caruso and Andrew Pegram discuss ways that the peer workforce can come together in Oregon. This conversation ties into bigger discussions around social change, society, and how to build a sense of community in a post-pandemic world.

What is Peer Support? Peer Support is a modality of providing emotional support from the lens of lived experience. Often peer supporters have had their own mental health and/or addictions challenges and can support others through disclosing these shared experiences. Peer support is also a different kind of relationship from the kind one might have with a therapist or social worker - one that is focused on mutuality, connection, community, and building one's self-determination.

Timestamps:

00:00 Icebreaker - Worst Advice
02:45 Introduction - Social Change
05:40 Divisions in the Peer Community
09:34 Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement
11:32 Crisis and Coming Together
16:20 Perspectives and Worldviews
21:04 Tribes and Connection to Community
23:30 Reactions from the System
28:30 Peers Unionizing
38:40 Education and Lived Experience
46:25 Integral Theory and Ken Wilber
49:55 Need for Biological Assessment in Psychiatry
52:12 Perception and Reality
55:10 How Peers Can Unify
58:40 Addiction Sponsorship as a Model
01:01 Cultural Values Around Connection
01:03 Lord of the Rings Interpretation ("Making It" On Your Own vs. Together)
01:08 Individualism
01:10 Mentorship and Support Groups for Wellness
01:19 Professional vs. Volunteer Peer Support
01:26 Wrap Up - Terrible Great Idea