IPS Core Training is offered by On Our Own of Maryland through partnership with Intentional Peer Support LLC.

From the IPS Website: Based on Shery Mead’s book, Intentional Peer Support: An Alternative Approach, the IPS Core Training is a 40-hour introduction to this innovative framework and is designed to have you practicing right away. In a highly interactive environment, participants learn the tasks and principles of IPS, examine assumptions about who they are, and explore ways to create relationships in which power is negotiated, co-learning is possible, and support goes beyond traditional notions of “service.” IPS is all about opening up new ways of seeing, thinking, and doing, and here we examine how to make this possible. Specific topics covered include:

• The 4 Tasks: Connection, Worldview, Mutuality, and Moving Towards
• History of the Peer Movement
• Rethinking Old Roles and Ways of Relating
• Understanding the Impact of Trauma
• Examining Power and Privilege
• Navigating Challenging Scenarios
• Using Co-Reflection to Maintain Values
• The 3 Principles: Helping to Learning, Individual to Relationship, Fear to Hope
• Listening Differently and With Intention
• Working Towards Shared Responsibility
• Moving Beyond Problem Solving
• Negotiating Boundaries and Limits
• Looking at Crisis as an Opportunity
• Creating a Vision