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…

The Single Word That Stops Negative Self-Talk

http://bit.ly/2YAirSU This mental jujitsu practice, in a single word, is gratitude. Before you start snoring and clicking away on your mouse, thinking, “Oh, yeah, that’s what my grandmother used to go on and on about and made me yawn,” let’s look at some research that might surprise you. One major research project on gratitude showed…

New child sex charges laid against Cambridge equestrian Andrew Williams

http://bit.ly/2yOKaA6 A 52-year-old man charged with the rape of young girls and making recordings now faces seven additional charges as a police investigation continues. Equestrian Andrew Alan Williams was arrested in May along with his partner Laken Maree Rose, 29, and was charged with indecent assault and unlawful sexual connection with a child. Williams appeared…

Boys often aren’t even thought of as potential victims.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/boy-scouts-sexual-abuse-america-children-story-a9045126.html?fbclid=IwAR34auMcbMfAgkDGC3OT1iqjGRPd0M7IHD5EK2UMc19XwgZh07mzjmv-tG4 Of course, the issue of the sexual abuse of boys is bigger than the Boy Scouts, but we often don’t hear about it. Indeed, because the number of girls and women who face sexual abuse is much greater than that of boys and men (23 per cent of women compared to 9 per cent…

Buddhists most trusted, Evangelicals least

Buddhists most trusted, Evangelicals least

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/08/which-religious-groups-do-kiwis-trust-the-most-and-least.html We found that the most trusted religious group in New Zealand is a small non-Christian group: Buddhists. In the most recent 2013 Census 58,000 Buddhists are recorded, out of about 3.9 million people who replied to the religious question. More people feel positively about Buddhists than not – 35 percent of New Zealanders have…

Interview with Shery Mead

http://bit.ly/2yO3MUV EM: Can you tell us a little bit about Intentional Peer Support, its philosophy and intentions? SM: IPS is a system for relational co-development. Philosophically it comes out of a social constructionist, systemic paradigm. We believe meaning is made in a context and can only be challenged in trusting connections where both people are…

When and How to Apologize: An Attachment Theory Perspective

http://bit.ly/2M953yK People with anxious/preoccupied attachment styles (read hear for a more detailed description), may have difficulty regulating their emotions and may have a tendency to get emotionally hijacked. When they are activated, they are likely to feel strong emotions that lead them to think of painful events and other past transgressions. They are likely to…

Intentional Peer Support (IPS) evolved out of the consumer activist movement in the States.

http://bit.ly/2YxoCr3 Intentional Peer Support (IPS) evolved out of the consumer activist movement in the States. The person most responsible for bringing Intentional Peer Support to the world is Shery Mead. Shery evolved the kaupapa of IPS through observing the limitations of Medical Model treatment of mental distress where the whole emphasis of “treatment” is to…

Exalted: from victim to warrior | Danielle McFarlin | TEDxTucson

Coming of age in the sleepy town of Nogales, Arizona, author Danielle McFarlin tells her story of how she transformed the devastating shadows of her early childhood sexual abuse into a path for spiritual warriorhood. Growing up in the border town of Nogales, Arizona, McFarlin was inspired to use her own journey through abuse and…

Female sexual abusers: Assessing the risk

http://bit.ly/2YRb1WR Dr.Jackie Turton Abstract Successful risk management within child protection is problematic and in many cases is a delicate balancing act between parental and children’s rights. Reversing the expected gender roles creates a dynamic that may increase the difficulties of risk assessment even further. This paper focuses on women who sexually abuse children and discusses…