Post-Crisis Plan Posts

Mutuality and Listening Differently

by Shery Mead In the last two brief articles we talked about Listening Differently as well as Listening for the Untold Story. In this article we’ll talk a bit about mutuality. Good questions are key in listening. But if you don’t share your own views and stories, the...
WRAP Overview

WRAP Overview

The Wellness Recovery Action Plan® or WRAP®, is a self-designed prevention and wellness process that anyone can use to get well, stay well and make their life the way they want it to be. It was developed in 1997 by a group of people who were searching for ways to...

New Study Examines Benefits of Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) for People with Serious Mental Illness

Press Release from the American Psychiatric Association – May 31, 2012 Release No. 12-26 [download original  APA Press Release as PDF here] ARLINGTON, Va. (May 31, 2012) — Training in mental illness self-management with WRAP reduced depression and anxiety and...

Vermont Recovery Education Project

Vermont Psychiatric Survivors, Inc., and the Vermont Department of Developmental and Mental Health Services Introduction In August of 1995, the Commissioner of the Department of Developmental and Mental Health Services (DDMHS) established a programmatic priority for...

Listening for the Untold Story

The last article I wrote on Listening Differently involved ‘listening from a position of not knowing.’ In this short piece I talked about listening with the intention of curiosity and wonder. In this next piece I’d like to focus on listening for the untold story which...