Great WRAP® Facilitation
Webinar Oct 18th 2010
Matthew R. Federici M.S., C.P.R.P
Executive Director
The Copeland Center for Wellness & Recovery
Mission Statement:
The Copeland Center promotes a mental health
system shift toward a focus on recovery,
self-determination, personal empowerment,
peer support, prevention and wellness.
We are:
The Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery is the only
national and international source of certified training and
technical assistance on the evidence-based Wellness
Recovery Action Plan® and other mental health recovery
programs developed by Dr. Mary Ellen Copeland, and based
on the findings of her studies of how people with mental
health issues get well and stay well over time.
We Are a Diverse Community of Peers
Supporting Each Other’s Wellness From
Around The World:
Called WRAP® Facilitators
VALUES & ETHICS
United by a core set of beliefs and
practices that promotes a culture of
Hope, Personal Responsibility,
Education, Self Advocacy and Support!
Today’s Webinar:
Great WRAP Facilitation is for all audiences from people who
know just a little bit on WRAP® to Advance Level Facilitators
Today We Will discuss:
• best practices for WRAP® Facilitators and
organizations that want to Facilitate access to
WRAP,
• highlight the basic training mythologies modeled by
the Copeland Center and used for the University of
Illinois research study, and
• helpful tips and strategies to existing WRAP
facilitators to enhance their presentation.
Our Roots:
• The Copeland Center for Wellness and
Recovery is named in honor of, and dedicated
to, the memory of Kathryn Strouse Copeland
(1912-1994)
•Recognizing her own need to talk with others,
she began gathering patients together in small
groups to share their experiences. The
hospital administration became uncomfortable
with these meeting (the first peer support) and
Kate was discharged at the age of 45. Kate
went on from there to get a highly coveted job
as nutritionist in an inner city high school.
WRAP®
• WRAP® -Wellness Recovery Action Plan
is a structured plan developed by YOU.
• It is a system that you devise for yourself
that helps you work through mental health
challenges or life issues.
• It is adaptable to any situation.
• WRAP is for everyone!
WRAP® was developed by a
group of people who had
been dealing with difficult
feelings and behaviors for
many years, people working
together to feel better and get
on with their lives
• The Copeland Center has continued this MUTUAL
LEARNING process through the training of WRAP®
Facilitators and Advanced Level WRAP® Facilitator.
Training model of evidenced based
practice of WRAP® Facilitation
• Seminar I Developing WRAP® Course: designed to
facilitate people to develop their own personalize plan.
• Seminar II WRAP® Facilitator Certificate Program:
designed for people who use WRAP®, to learn the
values and ethics in facilitating WRAP® with their
peers.
• Advanced Level WRAP® Facilitation Certification
course: designed for experienced WRAP® Facilitators
to learn how to mentor peers in the values and ethic of
Facilitating WRAP®
VALUES & ETHICS
• The heart of Great WRAP® Facilitation is
the Values and Ethics established by Mary
Ellen Copeland and a core group of
people who were passionate about
sharing this life transforming process.
• Through these Values and Ethics we
“Bring the materials to life” in our trainings.
– Advanced Level Facilitator
GREAT WRAP®
FACILITATION
“I fell in love with the values and ethics that guide the work of the
Copeland Center. These values and ethics taught me to
practice relationships in a new way—to stand strong in my
beliefs and still allow room in my consciousness for other ideas.
The values and ethics broke down my absolute thinking…gave
room for exploring many ways to look at a situation or
experience.”
~Gina Calhoun, Copeland Center National Director for Wellness and Recovery
Education
GREAT WRAP® FACILITATION
“This [WRAP] has changed my life
completely. I used to think of myself as
this “mentally ill” person. Now I am a
person who knows how to take care of
myself and help myself in difficult times. If
I am feeling badly or having a hard time, I
take action. And there are so many simple,
safe things I can do.”
WRAP® Makes a difference in
people’s lives!
• “WRAP has allowed my therapy sessions to be
more valuable.”
• “WRAP has me excited about my recovery
again.”
• “After my last WRAP group I went out on a
weekend and did not isolate for the first time in
years.”
GREAT WRAP
FACILITATION
“The statement ‘WRAP saved my life’ is not
uncommon and know this to be true has
made Wellness Recovery Action Planning an
extremely worthwhile investment for this rural
state (West Virginia) and beyond.”
-Advanced Level WRAP® Facilitator Kathy Muscari, Ph.D.
Evidence Based:
“promising early results suggest”
• February 2009 http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/
– significant improvement in self-reported symptoms, recovery,
hopefulness, self- advocacy, and physical health.
• WRAP was delivered in eight weekly sessions of 2.5 hours
each week.
• Sessions were co facilitated by 2 Copeland Center trained
WRAP® Facilitators who were in mental health recovery.
• Coursework included examples from the lives of the
educators and participants, individual and group exercises,
and voluntary homework assignments.
Values and Ethics
Based on self-determination
Rooted in the belief in equality
Promotes A MUTUAL LEARNING MODEL
Offers wellness perspective and “avoids medical and
clinical language.”
Voluntary nature supporting personal responsibility
Process of peers working together where choices and
options are explored
It’s about modeling the 5 Key Concepts: Hope,
Personal Responsibility, Education, Self Advocacy and
Support
Values and Ethics
• Values and Ethics are not a set of rules
governing how to Facilitate WRAP®
• It is a process of Mentorship: Great WRAP®
Facilitation is not saying “this is the way” but
rather “I am a way”
• “Be the Change you wish to see”
» Gandhi
Preparation for Facilitation
• The best preparation for this work is to
develop your own personal WRAP® and to
attend Facilitators Training by a Copeland
Center Advanced Level Facilitator
• Use your WRAP® regularly
• It is highly recommended that you cofacilitate, that is two WRAP® Facilitators
GREAT WRAP® FACILITATION
Comes from the Heart
• When we speak from an inside out perspective
it builds trust, breaks down the social barriers,
and establishes your best credibility.
• Section 1 page 85 of the Facilitators Manual.
• We Disclose Our Experience to Inspire not to
Vent
• It’s about making Connections
The Importance of
Co-Facilitation
• Provides greater role modeling of the key
concepts of Support
• Allows for the ability to support participants
that are having a hard time
• Models pro-active planning: When we need
to be absent we have a Supporter who can
step-in and step-up in that event
The Importance of
Co-Facilitation
• WRAP® Facilitation works because mutuality is
practiced, connections are made and
worldviews are shared equally
• Having two facilitators provides more diversity
and hence ability to make connections is
greater
• Training model based on a ratio of
approximately 1: 8
GREAT WRAP®
FACILITATION For…
• WRAP® has been found by many people to be
helpful for many areas of life challenges.
• Expand your personal WRAP® for that life challenge
and spend some time with it before Facilitating
• Or empower and support others who can speak to
that topic to become Facilitators
WRAP® For Facilitators
Wellness Tools:
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Co-facilitator; “comfort agreement”
•
Values and Ethics Checklist
•
Power of the “Group Agreement”
•
Music, Art, Theater etc…
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Coffee
•
Be well rested
•
Breaks
GREAT WRAP® FACILITAION:
Systems Transformation
WRAP® can be developed to transform our mental health system
through the strategic development of WRAP® Facilitators who
are trained in creating environments based on the Values and
Ethics:
In fact many states and agencies have:
1. Introduced “consumers,” peer supporters, family members and
co-workers to WRAP through Seminar I courses
2. Next engaged many to take WRAP Facilitators® Certificate
Course
3. Next trained teams of Advanced Level Facilitators to sustain
initiative with integrity.
GREAT WRAP FACILITATION
“WRAP Facilitation has really made a change
on how we do things here in the State of
Tennessee.
The 5 key concepts have permeated the
culture… We have had a significant
decrease the use of inpatient services and
we attribute this outcome to WRAP”
-Advanced Level Facilitator Sheryl McCormick Coordinator, Recovery Training
Services Peninsula- A Division of Parkwest Medical Center, Knoxville
Tennessee
GREAT WRAP® FACILITATION:
An Organic Way of Seeing and Relating
• Living Breathing
Process
• Not A Part To A
System
GREAT WRAP® FACILITAION:
Systems Transformation
Through the introduction of WRAP® for everyone and the values
and ethics of WRAP® Facilitation, artificial barriers and labels
to people working together around what’s working and not
working to overcome life's hardships disappear.
People who have valuable experience in their life who have been
restrained by a different set of professional values are liberated,
more satisfied and successful in their support positions.
All levels of the workplace are working from effective concepts
and a structure to be well and stay well for longer periods
GREAT WRAP® FACILITAION:
Uses Peer Support in
Agency and Systems
• The research on services delivered by people who have
themselves received services suggests that those services are
associated with
– reduced symptoms,
– increased functioning,
– and enhanced sense of empowerment, recovery, hope, and
quality of life
(Mowbray, Moxley, Jasper, & Howell, 1997).
GREAT WRAP® FACILITAION:
Agency and Systems
• Facilitates formal and informal WRAP® group
opportunities
– i.e. as a part of service offerings; ”after hours”; churches; coffee
shops etc…
• Develops and fosters a network of Facilitators
• Focuses on WRAP® as a process, a “way of life” and
mutual learning, not a document or form to be put into a
file
• All inclusive and creates an atmosphere that is based on
our common human pursuit of wellness not diagnosis,
illness or deficit orientation.
GREAT WRAP® FACILITAION:
Agency and Systems
• Incorporates WRAP® Key Concepts, Values and Ethics
in the planning process on multiple levels of the
organizations
– i.e. Organizational WRAP®, Team WRAP,
• Maintains the voluntariness and self-direction of WRAP®
• Accommodates a variety of learning styles and settings
– i.e. Self-taught; Groups, Online; Using Arts and Crafts etc..
GREAT WRAP® FACILITAION:
SPOILERS!
• Making WRAP® Mandatory
– Employees or Provider organization must have at
least ___ WRAPs with “consumer”
– State that people “have to participate in the group
or you can not be here”
– Making the development of any part of WRAP a
condition for payment for services or access to
other services
GREAT WRAP® FACILITAION:
Spoilers
• Requiring people to share any part of their WRAP® with others
• Having “observers” in WRAP® groups
• Giving advice
– i.e. you should develop a WRAP®; you need to add that to
your “toolbox”
• Keeping some one’s plan without their asking you to first
• Presenting WRAP® as a specific form to be completed
• NOT FOLLOWING THE VALUES AND ETHICS!
Engagement for WRAP®
Facilitators
• Provide “teasers” to include everyone and
anyone and follow up with group and one
on one opportunities
• Offer multiple opportunities to work
through the curriculum and develop their
WRAP®
– i.e. one on one, self-directed activities,
weekly, full day workshops
• Bring in guest speakers
Engagement for WRAP®
Facilitators
• Encourage mentorship by offering
opportunities for people to work with you in
leading groups
• Provide a variety certificates of completion
– Wellness Toolbox; Daily Maintenance Plan
etc…
• Change the venue and time
• Use creative arts
Essential Keys to Implementing
GREAT WRAP®
1. Support at least 2 Certified WRAP® facilitators
to organize a presentation or group.
2. Develop a WRAP for yourself with a WRAP®
facilitator
3. Use your plan as much as you can
4. Take the five day WRAP® Facilitator training
5. Organize a WRAP group where you can help
others use WRAP. (work, organization,
personal challenges, team building etc…)
WRAP® Facilitator Courses
• WRAP Facilitator Refresher Course Mt Gretna, PA
January 10, 11,12 2012.
• Advanced Level WRAP Facilitator Course Dec 3 through
7th 2011 at the Asilomar Retreat
Go to www.copelandcenter.com to register
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