I am grateful to Malton women's Council for the incredible opportunity to join as a Resilient Communities Peer Ambassador. MWC offers mandatory training sessions to all peer ambassadors in this capacity and I am blessed with these sessions. Last week, the training was titled "Peer support and mentor training: project to support women experiencing COVID - 19", coordinated by Uzma Irfan and facilitated by Tushita Majumdar. The session was loaded and packed with learning, knowledge and awareness regarding peer support. All of the training sessions were at the virtual tone due to the COVID 19 pandemic. The taken insight of session - 1 was:
- Dimensions of wellness and what is health? for instance, physical, social, emotional, intellectual, environmental and spiritual wellness
- History of peer support - peer support mentor
- Who is a peer support mentor?
- 2 fold benefits being a peer support mentor
- What would be you doing as a peer support mentor?
- Principles and process - peer support recovery
- Core values of peer support
- Roadmap: ALGEE
- Challenges as a peer support mentor
- Knowing when to help - Healing emotions
- Setting boundaries and setting limits
- How to maintain boundaries? Challenges
- Boundaries for peer support mentors - Ground rules
Today I am grateful for the subsequent session titled "Peer support and mentor training: project to support women experiencing COVID - 19". Today's session was coordinated by Uzma Irfan and facilitated by Tushita Majumdar at the MWC platform. Today's session was a further advancement with the same notion regarding peer support mentor with a load of knowledge and awareness. I appreciate and recognize the significance for a variety of reasons and take messages from session - 2, for instance:
- Peer support mentor
- Exercise - What I need now is ..... why .....
- What is change? Action plan - handling change
- Peer support - What's involved?
- Peer support mentoring
- What is culture - cultural iceberg
- What is bias - bias need to recognize
- What is stereotyping?
- Fear, what actually is? How do you deal with it? What are the challenges?
- Peer support mentor - words of caution
- Roles and responsibilities - Mentor and peer
- Significance of self-care
- 10 steps to self-care
- Burn-out, signs and symptoms
- Difference between conversation and communication
- What is effective communication?
- Importance of active listening and empathy - listening strategies
- How to ensure that a peer support mentor stays on track?
- Wellness wheel and its components
- What is stress, sign and symptoms? and how it impacts us in a variety of ways?
- Stress management strategies
- This is my journey with these 2 sessions, discover learning opportunities according to your professional background is the thought of the day
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