IPS CORE TRAINING – In Person

IPS CORE TRAINING – In Person

IPS Core Training will run in person over a week ( 5 x sessions )

SCHEDULE

Wednesday 10 December 2025 – 9:00am – 5:00pm
Thursday 11 December 2025 – 9:00am – 5:00pm
Friday 12 December 2025 - 9:00am – 5:00pm
Monday 15 December 2025 - 9:00am – 5:00pm
Tuesday 16 December 2025 – 9:00am – 5:00pm

Please note: this course is listed as a single event but runs over 1 week (5 sessions in total). Once you have booked your tickets via Eventbrite you are booked for the full course and it is assumed you are available to attend all 5 sessions.

Attendance to each session is required to achieve certification.

IPS Core Training

The IPS Core Training is for anyone interested in mutual support and has been widely used a foundation training for people working in both traditional and alternative mantal health settings.

Based on Shery Mead's book "Intentional Peer Support: An Alternative Approach" our Core Training 5 session in person introduction to this innovative framework and is designed to have you practicing right away. In a highly interactive environment, participants learn the tasks and principles of IPS, examine assumptions about who they are, and explore ways to create relationships in which power is negotiated, co-learning is possible, and support goes beyond traditional notions of "service". IPS is all about opening up new ways of seeing, thinking, and doing, and here we examine how to make this possible.

What is Intentional Peer Support?

Intentional Peer Support (IPS) is a way of thinking about and inviting powerful, transformative relationships. Peer practitioners learn to use relationships to see things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patters, and support and challenge each other in trying new things.