NAMI Connection Support Group Facilitator Training
- When: Thursday, March 4, 2010, time TBA
- Where: Mary Robbins, 1012 Autumn Rd, Suite 1, Little Rock, AR
- Cost: Not available
- Age limit: 18+
- Categories: Lectures
What it is: NAMI Connection is a recovery support group program for adults living with mental illness. These groups provide a place that offers respect, understanding, encouragement, and hope. For more information about NAMI Connectioin click here.
Who can train: Two or more persons living with a diagnosed mental illness who wish to learn how to facilitate a NAMI support group for other persons living with mental illness. The NAMI Connection support group model is based on two or more persons co-facilitating a support group.
NAMI Connection Facilitators are trained volunteers who are going through their own process of recovering from a mental illness. They can empathize with and encourage those who are just beginning the journey to a renewed life. A NAMI Connection facilitator ensures that the group shares responsibility for maintaining guidelines, sustains clear participant boundaries, clarifies goals, and reinforces communication skills that encourage group participation.
NAMI Connection facilitators are certified by attending and graduating from a 3-day training event. After the training event, certified facilitators know how to encourage the group to make room for all of its voices; short-circuit personal sagas; engage the group in subjects of collective interest; encourage collective thought; and circumvent negative interactions by identifying common ground for real discussion among group participants
Application process: Interested persons must fill out an application form (see bottom of page to download this application), application may be e-mailed to smcdermott@nami.org or FAXed to 501-312-7540. Applicants will then undergo a telephone screening process before being approved to attend the training. Please call Stephen McDermott at 800-844-0381 for more information.
Date: March 4th-7th, 2010
Location: Little Rock
