Therapy vs. Peer Support
Intentionally uses non-clinical, open language that leaves space for people to make their own meaning of their experiences.
What is Peer support or Peer support groups?
This involves your ability to manage and express the emotions that arise from what you have learned and experienced.
What is emotional health?
A confidant, supporter of self awareness, exploration, and hope.
What is my role as a group facilitator?
An experience or series of experiences that lead one to believe that the world is unsafe or unable to meet their basic needs, often leading that person to make basic adaptations in order to survive.
What is trauma?
What is the definition of trauma?
TCB
What is A Tribe Called Black?
Can include assessments and conventional crisis interventions (safety contracts, commitment to hospital, etc.)
What is "therapy" or "therapy" groups?
Happiness; Sadness; Fear; Disgust; Anger; Surprise
What are 6 basic emotions?
What are some examples of emotions?
Welcome, intro yourself and pronouns, ground the group with an acknowledgement, share group description etc.
What is a peer group flow?
Can't do anything right, fearful, anxious, overwhelmed, unwanted, not yourself, alone, unsafe
What does trauma feel like?
Ebony Flint or Eb X
Who is the founder of TCB?
Helps us not feel alone.
Can make new connections with people
Can honor true self and how you choose to identify
Make meaning of traumatic experiences
What are some reasons why peer support works?
What are some reasons peer support is important?
Exaggerating the emotion; Accepting the emotion; Substituting the emotion; Managing the emotion through self awareness.
How do we cope with emotions?
How do we deal with emotions?
"It makes sense that.."
"Thank you for trusting me with.."
" I'd be (feeling) too.."
What are validating responses?
Social media, jail, LIFE, bullying, abuse....
What are some traumatic experiences?
Wildflower Alliance and Wild Ivy.
Who are TCB funders, sponsors, allies?
Start from place of curiosity. Resist assumptions of illness and assumptions of all kinds.
What is a core value of peer support?
This would consist of your experiences: your moments of struggle, your moments of reward.....and the shifts that were made for you to get you to this present time in your life.
What is in our journey?
What is your journey?
What is sharing your journey?
Sharing about past emotional experiences, sharing some of your own experience, apologizing...
What is vulnerability?
What are ways to be vulnerable?
It's your fault, you deserve it.
They won't believe you anyway
I am doing this for your own good.
You are lying.
What are trauma messages?
Black Teens Talk.
What is the first TCB peer support group?
Before opening the group space the facilitator grounds everyone with important information.
What is "Put some Respeck on it or land acknowledgement?
You can do this in a passive way; an assertive way, or an aggressive way.
What are some ways we express our feelings to others?
Validation, Curiosity, Vulnerability, Community
What is VCVC?
Eventually, they began to uncover how are strongly related to risk factors for disease, health, and social well-being throughout one's lifespan.
What are adverse childhood experiences?
What is ACE?
June.
What month was TCB created?