WRAP Training - Wellness Recovery Action Planning workshops & presentations WRAP course outline pdf for printing
Roger's experience in recovery training started with the facilitation of 3 day (3 x 6 hours) Self Management Training courses from 2002 to 2006. Roger gained his certificate as a Wellness Recovery Action Planning facilitator in 2006 and has continued facilitating WRAP in many formats across the UK.
WRAP courses are based on 5 established principles of wellness and recovery, as well as trainers who have recovered from crisis and continue to stay well being able to provide effective peer support for those just starting on such a journey. WRAP can also be seen as an inoculation against many potential illnesses as it is an effective way of developing healthy lifestyles.
The idea of being helped to learn essential life skills of planning to stay well and planning recovery from crisis are relatively new. When people without these skills are over-stressed they can lose hope. Some diagnoses (mental or physical) can cause people to despair as often all that is offered is medication to treat symptoms rather than help with making changes.
Using WRAP, individuals gain/regain the belief that they are the most important factor determining their wellness, ensuring the most effective recovery from current and future crisis. Wellness recovery training can help with the avoidance of mental health problems. It will boost understanding for healthy people, helping with relating to friends, relatives and work colleagues who may be suffering.
Participants are encouraged to work together to explore wellness recovery concepts on an on-going basis. Some ongoing support is available from Stop Paddling via email. Mainly though we encourage participants with the continuing development of their own support network.
WRAP course outline pdf for printing
The most common benefits for individuals such as increased happiness may not be tangible, yet we do know that participants who had been out of full-time employment for many years have gained the confidence to become fully active again.
This course is offered for people with; diagnosed mental health problems, suffering from stress but staying relatively well and those such as managers who may not feel much stress themselves but need a better understanding.
An introduction to the key concepts of Wellness Recovery & WRAP can be delivered as a talk, with some audience participation, in as little one hour. The maximum attending a Stop Paddling WRAP talk has been 60 at a Total Networking event. - see Testimonials
For a group where none of the audience would consider themselves to currently be in crisis, (perhaps a group of health professionals) a one day course is often appropriate. The ideal number for such a course with one facilitator is 12.
WRAP courses are most frequently delivered for people who have major concerns about stress and/or mental health over 2 full days. The ideal number for such a course with one facilitator is 12. We know this course also works well with two facilitating and up to 16 participants.
Participants often choose to exchange contact details and continue to work together on their plans for months and years after this life-changing course.
Roger's WRAP facilitator 's certificate
WRAP course outline pdf for printing
Background
MDF The Bipolar Organisation were providing self management training in the UK as early as 1996, successfully helping people put their lives back on track. It was one of these courses, in a 3 day format, that Roger attended and so was inspired as to retrain as a stress adviser, then SMT and WRAP facilitator. Roger works with other WRAP facilitators to deliver Wellness Recovery Action Planning throughout the UK. There is information about how Wellness Recovery Action Planning started in the late 1980's at www.mentalhealthrecovery.com
© 2009 Roger Smith Stop Paddling ©
January 24, 2010
