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Balance Whanganui is a peer run mental health charitable trust that makes a difference in the lives of those affected by mood disorders and other forms of mental illness and addictions. If this is your first visit you may like to have a look through the menus to get a feel for what the site and the network can offer you. At this stage our redeveloped site has more being added every week so please check back regularly.
Support Group Meetings
We usually meet at Room 111, Community House, 53A Ridgway St, Wanganui, but on Thursday evenings at 7:00 p.m. we are at 57 Ridgway St, Wanganui.
The next meeting is a support group (without a speaker).
Phone 345 4488 for further details or text 021 262 8370.
WRAP Training
See www.mentalhealthrecovery.com for details on WRAP.
A course started on Feb 23rd 2012 .......for more information on the next course, please contact us by phone on
06 345 4488 or e-mail us at
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Intentional peer support....(ISP)
........is a way of thinking about purposeful relationships. It is a process where both people (or a group of people) use the relationship to look at things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns, and to support and challenge each other as we try new things.
· IPS is different from traditional service relationships because it doesn't start with the assumption of "a problem." Instead people are taught to listen for how and why each of us has learned to make sense of our experiences, and then use the relationship to create new ways of seeing, thinking, and doing.
· IPS promotes a ‘trauma-informed' way of relating- instead of asking ‘what's wrong' we ask ‘what happened'?
· IPS looks beyond the notion of individuals needing to change and examines our lives in the context of our relationships and communities.
· Peer Support relationships are viewed as partnerships that enable both parties to learn and grow- rather than as one person needing to ‘help' another.
· Instead of a focus on what we need to stop or avoid doing, we are encouraged to move towards what and where we want to be.
At the end of the day, it's really about building stronger, healthy communities
Overview of IPS Course
o Journal writing
o What really is Peer Support?
o First contact & language
o Listening differently
o Feelings and needs
o Developing Trauma-informed, mutually responsible relationships
o Challenging situations
o Learning versus helping
o Problem solving versus validation
o Worldview
o Mutuality
o Moving forward
o Focus plan
o The power of language
o Self, relational and work care
o Boundaries or limits
o Co- supervision
o Working in the system
o Using peer support
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