IPS Managers/Supervisors Training - March 2025 (4 x 4-hr sessions online)

Are you interested in deepening your knowledge and practice of Intentional Peer Support in a mangerial or supervisory role?

Managers training

Intentional Peer Support is a way of thinking about and inviting transformative relationships. Practitioners learn to use relationships to see things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns, and support and challenge each other in trying new things.

For nearly twenty years, IPS has been inspiring and training people in community, peer support, and human services settings all over the world to be intentional about the way they connect and build mutual relationships. In this first online IPS Managers/Supervisors' training, participants will learn the tasks and principles of IPS in a highly interactive environment. IPS is all about new ways of seeing, thinking, and doing, and here we examine how to make this possible. This training also is intended to support leaders and managers interested in implementing the peer support framework in their organisation or community. This training is of particular value to line managers of peer workers, particularly in teams implementing Intentional Peer Support.

What to expect in the 4 highly interactive and practice-based sessions of this online course:

• History of the Consumer/ Survivor/ Ex-Patient/ Mad Movements and the History of Intentional Peer Support
• An overview of the IPS framework - the 3 principles and 4 tasks
• What makes IPS unique
• The Power of Language
• Co-optation of peer support
• Practice conversations and applying IPS in your workplace
• Power Dynamics in peer support
• The impact of privilege, oppression and marginalization on peer support relationships
• Boundaries in peer support
• Languages of Pain
• The impact of trauma on relationships
• Intentional Workplaces
• Co-reflection
• Social Change

As part of this course, you will be invited to share feedback with us upon completion of the training on the curriculum and course content.

The following online IPS Managers/Supervisors' training will run for four Wednesdays with a 4-hour session timeblock set for each training date. There will be scheduled breaks.

The 4 x sessions:

March 11, 13, 18 and 20

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9am - 1pm EST / 2-6pm GMT

Please confirm your training starting and ending times by entering your time zone here at www.worldtimebuddy.com and comparing with the listed timezones above. This training is open to people in time zones where the start time is no earlier than 7am and the finishing time is 11.00pm or earlier. Please contact us at [email protected] with queries.

For people in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand), please email us at [email protected] to find out about training in your country / time zone.

This is an interactive training so we do ask that participants have their camera on and participate in all of the activities and break out sessions. If that is not possible you may prefer to attend an in-person training rather than online - email us to chat through the options where you are!

We have a tiered pricing structure in efforts to make our curriculum more accessible. Simply read the tier descriptions to identify the tier that applies to you. We rely on your ticket purchase to support the totality of our work, so we request that you choose the highest tier you are able to comfortably afford. Any funds collected beyond our expenses will provide scholarship to others.

Places at the lower tiered price are limited - once they are sold out we cannot release more of these places until the next round of training. Seats offered on a first-come, first-served basis, so please register early to guarantee a seat!

Registration cost for the full course of 4 x sessions:

Agency Rate (where the organization or agency is paying for an employee's spot) - $600 (per person)

Self funded / Employed Rate (where a person purchasing a ticket is employed and paying their own way) - $300 (per person)

Please note: If you are hoping to use the learning from this training to join the peer support workforce please know that we cannot provide placements or work opportunities as part of the training.

For more about IPS, please visit our website: www.intentionalpeersupport.org

Host or Publisher Intentional Peer Support