Self-Care: An Essential Practice for Peers- Eastern Shore

Self-Care: An Essential Practice for Peers- Central Region

Date: September 19, 2017

Time: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Location: Eastern Shore Hospital Center

Purpose: Self-care is an essential practice for peer recovery specialists working in the field of addiction and mental health. Practicing self-care offers a strengths based approach to recovery and wellness as well as a resource for handling life’s many challenges. It also helps to foster a positive recovery environment as peers practicing self-care model wellness as a way of life.

Objectives of Training:

Having a strong foundation in recovery and wellness is where our work as peers begin. Committing to our own ongoing practice of self-care allows us to be healthy supporters to the peers we serve. At the same time, it helps us to maintain our own recovery and wellness in a long-term and sustainable way. In this experiential training, we will explore:

• The critical importance of practicing self-care as a peer recovery specialist

• A holistic approach to wellness focused on body, mind, emotion and spirit

• Self-care tools that support self-awareness, balance and well-being

• Experiential practices including meditation & mindfulness, yoga, journaling and other methods that can be used as part of our personal self-care practice as well as in our work with peers

• Ways to develop a working self-care plan that supports us in our life and our work as peers

Instructors: Beth Terrence, CPRS, CRNC, LMT, Founder & Director of Holistic Recovery Pathways and Daphne Klein, CPRS, RPS, ALWF, Executive Director of On Our Own of Montgomery County, INC.

CEU’s: This class provides 6 CPRS CEUs in the Wellness/Recovery Domain toward certification or re-certification.