Queer Intentional Peer Support 5-day Core Training - March 2025

Name: Queer Intentional Peer Support 5-day Core Training - March 2025
Start: 2025-03-03T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-07T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center

Schedule

Mon, 03 Mar, 2025 at 09:00 am to Fri, 07 Mar, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center | Holyoke, MA

This IPS training has been adapted to center queer communities.
About this Event

Join your trainers, Calvin Moen, Sean Donovan and Cindy Hadge, for this 5-day Core Intentional Peer Support (IPS) training adapted specifically to center queer communities. Intentional Peer Support provides a powerful framework for creating transformative relationships where both people learn and grow together. IPS is used across the world in community, peer support, and human services settings, and is a tool for community development with broad appeal to people from all walks of life.

During the Core Training, participants learn to:

Seek ways to connect, become aware of disconnects, and work to reconnect
Explore how we have "come to know what we know"
Strive for mutuality in relationships
Stay curious, question assumptions and own judgements and opinions
Open up new ways of listening
Use experience to relate and build trust
Name and negotiate power in relationships
Approach crisis as an opportunity to grow
Focus on the quality of relationships instead of fixing one another
Share risk and responsibility
Pay attention to the impact of clinical and labeling language
Understand how trauma affects lives
Keep the energy in relationships moving towards what we want
Understand peer support in the context of social change and social justice

You can learn more about Intentional Peer Support at www.intentionalpeersupport.org.

This training will take place in-person beginning Monday, March 3 at 9am and running through Friday, March 7 at 5pm.

All five training days will run from 9AM to 5PM with a full hour for lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided. Admission price does not include lodging or meals.

PLEASE NOTE: Space is very limited in this training as we anticipate the majority of spots will go to our new Anemoni peer respite team.

IMPORTANT LOCATION INFORMATION: Four of five days will take place at the Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke. However, Wednesday, March 5 will take place at the Holyoke Library on Chestnut Street.