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STAR Center Summer Teleconference Series: Mental Health and Wellness
STARCenter Summer Teleconference Series: Mental Health and Wellness
Topic: Mental Health and Wellness: Self-Help Tools and Practices to Support Your Personal Recovery and Growth (In English)
Date: Tuesday, August 18
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
For call-in information, please send your request to star@nami.org
The co-learning objectives of this session will be:
· To present and discuss several self-help tools (including the Wellness Recovery Action Plan by Mary Ellen Copeland), activities, ideas, practices, and resources
· To invite participants to share their questions, comments and add information and suggestions from their own experience
· Encourage creative and effective self-help work, recovery activities, and shifts in thinking from an illness model to a strengths-based/self-responsibility and self-accountability model
After the session, please spend a moment or two evaluating this session when the internet survey link is sent. Thank you!
Speakers/Presenters:
Debbie L. Whittle is a consultant, counselor, writer, artist, educator, motivational speaker, and change agent. She has transformed her own experience of suffering and has been a student of psychology, process therapy, holism, quantum mechanics, new thought and the healing process. She is passionate about helping to birth a new paradigm in mental health care by moving away from pathology toward wholeness-based perspectives. Debbie is Director of the SAMHSA-funded Technical Assistance Center of The National Empowerment Center, www.power2u.org.
Kerrie Fallon and Marina Colonas are from the Transformation Center (TC). The TC is run by and for people with lived experience of Mental Health and Dual Diagnosis Recovery needs. The TC is a new initiative launched by M-Power, Inc. which has been around since 1987. The focus of the work of the TC is Peer Support, Training, and Advocacy and Best Practices. The TC is also the certifying organization for Peer Specialists in Massachusetts. The Transformation Center also works closely with six Recovery Learning Communities (RLCs) across the state. RLCs offer training and support for peers working and volunteering to promote wellness and recovery in the local communities. For more information, visit www.transformation-center.org.
Stephen Kiosk is the Director of the SAMHSA-funded STAR (Support, Technical Assistance, and Resources) Center at NAMI. Steve has transformed his own past mental health challenges and diagnoses into strengths and new skill sets, has worked in ministry as a member of a religious order and as an ordained minister/priest, has supported others as a peer in the GLBTQI community as well as a mental health practitioner, and has been a life-long student of spiritual traditions, extraordinary human capacities, and attitudinal and holistic wellness practices. Steve has used many different tools, technologies, readings, activities and methods for his own innovative wellness path, and has also applied creative recovery approaches in his work as a peer/support advocate, trainer, licensed professional counselor, social services program director, and group facilitator. For more information on Steve’s background as well as the STAR Center, please visit www.consumerstar.org.
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STAR Center Teleconference Summer Series with topics and dates:
Third Teleconference Session:
Topic: Mental Health and Wellness: Self-Help Tools and Practices to Support Your Personal Recovery and Growth (In English)
Date: Tuesday, August 18
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Fourth Teleconference Session:
(This call will be in Spanish only / Esta llamada se llevara acabo en español solamente)
Topic: Salud Mental y Bienestar: Herramientas de Autoayuda y Prácticas de Apoyo para su Recuperación y Crecimiento Personal
Date: Tuesday, September 8
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Fifth Teleconference Session:
Topic: Cultural Competence and Diversity: Exploring Mental Health and Wellness from Individual, Family/Supporter, and Provider Roles from Multicultural Points of View (In English)
Date: TBD
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
For more information contact:
Carmen Argueta
Project Coordinator
703-524-7600 Main
703-600-1114 Direct
Project Coordinator
703-524-7600 Main
703-600-1114 Direct
