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Web Changes
This is where we'll announce the most recent
additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's
changed, take a look here first.
Watch this space for WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Planning)
We are looking forward to holding WRAP training at Brook Street over two
weekends in early December with the possibility of holding a facilitator's
training course in either February or March next year - contact Jude for more
details on 3846 4209
Certificate IV in Mental Health (non-clinical)
Are you interested in finding out more about this course? Would you like to
undertake this Certificate qualification with a peer-support slant? Contact the
Centre on 3846 4209 Tuesday - Thursday to register your interest.
What's in the news about recovery & peer support
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It is our job to ask people with
psychiatric disabilities what it is they want and need in order to grow and
then to provide them with good soil in which a new life can secure its roots
and grow. And then, finally, it is our job to wait patiently, to sit with, to
watch with wonder, and to witness with reverence the unfolding of another
person’s life. Patricia Deegan
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| Recovery does not refer to an end product or result. It
does not mean that one is “cured” nor does not mean that one is simply
stabilized or maintained in the community. Recovery often involves a
transformation of the self wherein one both accepts ones limitation and
discovers a new world of possibility. That is, in fact, recovery is marked by
accepting of our limitations. This is the paradox of recovery i.e., that in
accepting what we cannot do or be, we begin to discover who we can be and what
we can do. Thus, recovery is a process. It is a way of life. It is an attitude
and a way of approaching the day’s challenges. It is not a perfectly linear
process. Like the sea rose, recovery has its seasons, its time of downward
growth into the darkness to secure new roots and then the times of breaking
out into the sunlight. But most of all recovery is a slow, deliberate process
that occurs by poking through one little grain of sand at a time. Patricia
Deegan 1996 |
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