Connection, Worldview, Mutuality, Moving Towards

http://www.balancewhanganui.org.nz/index.php/information/education-courses/intentional-peer-support

IPS is seen as having four “tasks”:

Connection, Worldview, Mutuality, Moving Towards

and three principles:

Moving from: Helping to Learning, Individual to Relationship, Fear to Hope

These approaches involve:

Looking at the power of language to define experience

Understanding trauma worldview and re-enactment

Rethinking old roles and ways of relating

Working towards shared responsibility in relationships

Examining power and privilege

Negotiating boundaries and limits

Navigating challenging scenarios

Understanding crisis as an opportunity

Using co-reflection to sustain values

Creating social change