Sharpen Your Skills: Peer Support Training Refreshers
This collection of interactive training modules is designed as a valuable resource for Peer Support Specialists looking to refresh, review, and reinforce essential skills and knowledge. Whether you're revisiting core concepts or seeking to deepen your understanding of specific areas, these self-paced, browser-based modules offer a convenient way to stay sharp and effective in your vital role.
Each refresher focuses on practical application, incorporating key principles, real-world scenarios, and knowledge checks to ensure you feel confident and competent in your peer support practice.
Some of Our Interactive Training Refreshers:
1. Motivational Interviewing (MI) Essentials
A concise review of MI principles (PACE, RULE) and core skills (OARS). Perfect for sharpening your ability to foster collaborative conversations, explore ambivalence, and empower individuals toward their recovery goals.
2. Ethical Foundations in Peer Support
Revisit crucial ethical considerations, including confidentiality, professional boundaries, scope of practice, and ethical decision-making. Ensure your practice remains grounded in integrity and respect.
3. Effective Group Facilitation Techniques
Refresh your skills in planning, preparing, and leading impactful peer support groups. This module revisits creating safe spaces, managing dynamics, encouraging participation, and co-facilitation best practices.
4. Problem Solving & Decision Making Support
Review structured approaches to help individuals navigate challenges. This refresher covers guiding problem identification, brainstorming solutions, evaluating options, and supporting self-directed, values-based decision-making.
5. Crisis Response & Support Principles
A focused review of how to recognize and respond supportively to individuals experiencing a mental health crisis, adapting principles similar to Mental Health First Aid for the peer specialist role, including de-escalation and safety planning basics.
6. Crafting & Sharing Your Recovery Story
Revisit the art of developing and sharing your personal recovery narrative with purpose and impact. This module helps you refine the key elements of your story and consider ethical sharing, with an optional look at using AI for polish.
7. Trauma-Informed Care Fundamentals
A refresher on the core principles of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC). Review the impact of trauma and how to apply TIC in your interactions to create safety, build trust, and support healing without causing re-traumatization.
Continue to grow and excel in your peer support journey. These refreshers are here to support you every step of the way!