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WRAP and Weight Loss - Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 2-3pm EDT
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Previous Webinars:
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WRAP Overview
Using WRAP with Kids
Gratitude as an Action Plan
WRAP for Groups
Using WRAP to Develop a Strong System of Support
Living WRAP
WRAP and Healing the Effects of Trauma
Wellness Tools
Working with Veterans and Military Personnel: How WRAP Can Make a Difference
Upcoming Webinars:
WRAP and Weight Loss
Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 2-3pm EDT
Online and on the phone
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, will present a webinar on using the Wellness Recovery Action Plan for weight loss. Many of us have difficulty with managing our weight, eating right and getting enough exercise. The daily maintenance plan and the wellness toolbox parts of WRAP can be invaluable tools in trying to manage your weight. This webinar will help you identify triggers that hinder weight loss as well as early warning signs that things may be heading in a direction you do not want. Using WRAP has helped many people get their weight under control often while working on other challenges.
Mary Ellen Copeland worked with a group of people who have a lived experience of mental health challenges to develop WRAP. She is the author of WRAP® (Wellness Recovery Action Plan), and many other recovery-oriented resources.
This webinar is sponsored by the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery where you can get trained to be a certified WRAP Facilitator.
Previous Webinars:
WRAP Overview
Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 2-3pm EDT
Online and on the phone
Katie Wilson, Director of Marketing and Special Projects, will give a one hour WRAP overview including the five key concepts- hope, education, personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and support. Katie will go through wellness tools, the daily maintenance plan, triggers and triggers action plan, early warning signs and action plan, when things are breaking down, crisis planning, and post crisis planning. The presentation will be followed by a live question and answer session.
Katie is a Copeland Center trained WRAP Facilitator. Katie has worked for Mary Ellen Copeland and for the Copeland Center. She organizes the monthly webinars, as well as all the online tools for the Copeland Center and Mentalhealthrecovery.com.
This webinar is appropriate for anyone who wants to learn more about WRAP, using WRAP for yourself or to support others.
This webinar is sponsored by the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery where you can get trained to be a certified WRAP Facilitator.
Great WRAP Facilitation
Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 2-3pm EDT
Online and on the phone
Matthew Federici, Executive Director of the Copeland Center will be discussing best practices for WRAP Facilitators. Great WRAP Facilitation is for all audiences from people who know just a little bit on WRAP to Advance Level Facilitators. This Webinar is designed to highlight the basic training mythologies modeled by the Copeland Center and used for the University of Illinois research study as well as offer helpful tips and strategies to existing WRAP facilitators to enhance their presentation.
Matthew is an experienced Advanced Level WRAP Facilitator who has done both training and managing a training team through his previous position at the Institute for Recovery and Community Integration.
This webinar is sponsored by the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery where you can get trained to be a certified WRAP Facilitator.
Powerpoint slide of Great WRAP Facilitation
Using WRAP with Chronic Conditions: Diabetes
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 2-3pm EDT
Online and on the phone
Matthew Federici, Executive Director of the Copeland Center, and Eric Larson, Advanced Level WRAP Facilitator, will present a webinar on using WRAP for chronic medical conditions with a focus on diabetes.
This webinar is intended for all audiences and will provide an overview of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan from a holistic health perspective, as Eric Larson, Advanced Level WRAP Facilitator discusses the applications to staying well despite the challenges of having diabetes.
Through participation in this webinar you will be able to:
1. Describe how WRAP® is a holistic health practice that can facilitate wellness regardless of the health challenge.
2. Identify new approaches, wellness tools and actions plans that may help you with the challenge of wellness despite having Diabetes
3. Utilize the key concepts to identify barriers to a wellness mindset
This webinar is sponsored by the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery where you can get trained to be a certified WRAP Facilitator.
Powerpoint slide of Using WRAP with Chronic Conditions: Diabetes
Recording of Using WRAP with Chronic Conditions: Diabetes
Using WRAP with Kids
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 2-3pm EST
Online and on the phone
Many people are interested in supporting children to create their own personal WRAPs. Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, has developed a guide to help children discover all the things that they can do to feel well, stay well, and even feel better when the going is hard.
Mary Ellen will guide participants through the process she developed and answer questions that come up specifically with supporting children through creating a WRAP including encouragement, introduction to WRAP, and more.
Mary Ellen Copeland worked with a group of people who have a lived experience of mental health challenges to develop WRAP. She is the author of WRAP® (Wellness Recovery Action Plan), and many other recovery-oriented resources.
This webinar is sponsored by the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery where you can get trained to be a certified WRAP Facilitator.
*Because of the technical difficulty during the webinar, posting of the slides and recording will be delayed. Please check back soon.
Recording of Using WRAP with Kids
Gratitude as an Action Plan
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Gratitude can serve to heal and help us move forward in positive ways. A daily acknowledgment of what is right in our lives can create the groundwork for mindfulness, confidence, self-esteem, and empowerment. Active recognition of the optimistic force of gratitude is a powerful approach to living. This presentation includes remarkable research findings about the benefits of using this simple, safe and uplifting wellness tool.
Certificates of attendance are available on request. Sorry, CEUs are not available.
Carol Bailey Floyd, Director of Programs for Mental Health Recovery & WRAP, is a certified WRAP facilitator and trainer of facilitators. Well-known in the mental health field, she was the Project Coordinator for the U. of IL- Chicago's WRAP Research Project in OH. For more information on her work go to http://www.mentalhealthrecovery.com.
This webinar is sponsored by the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery where you can get trained to be a certified WRAP Facilitator and Essential Learning, your resource for online WRAP and recovery courses.
Powerpoint Slides for Gratitude as an Action Plan
Recording of Gratitude as an Action Plan
WRAP for Groups
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Mary Ellen Copeland will present a free webinar, WRAP for Groups on Wednesday, January 20 from 2-3 PM EST. It wasn't long after the development of WRAP that people began to realize that this simple process that people use to guide their recovery from mental health difficulties could also be used to increase the successfulness and effectiveness of all kinds of groups including WRAP groups, support groups of all kinds including peers support groups, organizations, agencies and even family groups. Developing a WRAP for a group has become so popular that it is a featured activity in WRAP facilitator trainings. In this Webinar, Mary Ellen will lead the participants through the process of identifying Wellness Tools that will be helpful to groups and then developing a plan that insures the tools are used when needed -- at each session, occasionally, when the group is upset, when things are not going well and even when people are considering leaving the group or the group is considering reorganizing or disbanding,
People who use WRAP on a daily basis to guide their lives, WRAP group facilitators and people who facilitate other kinds of groups, people at all levels of responsibility in organizations and agencies, care providers and family members are encouraged to attend.
Powerpoint slides from WRAP for Groups
Watch the recording of WRAP for Groups
Using WRAP to Develop a Strong System of Support
December 16, 2009
Mary Ellen Copeland of the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery will present, Using WRAP to Develop and Keep a Strong Support System. Using the Loneliness Workbook as a guide, she will guide attendees through the process of identifying support related Wellness Tools and then using those tools to build a powerful WRAP that will help them to increase the size and effectiveness of their support system. WRAP group facilitators and health care providers are encouraged to attend as well so that they can share these ideas and strategies with others.
Many, many of the questions in previous webinars are about issues related to support. In Mary Ellen Copeland's earliest studies on how people recover from mental health difficulties, "support" emerged as a key concept for recovery. Those studies, the basis for her well-known recovery work of the last 20 years showed that most people felt that everyone should have a support team of at least 5 people, people who care, people who are willing to listen, people who are willing to help when needed, and people who share the joys and sorrows of our lives, people who like to do fun things. Yet many, probably most people, find Developing and Keeping a Strong Support System to be a challenge in their lives. And yet the ease with which we recover seems to be dependent not only on our own resources but on the closeness and effectiveness of our connection with others.
Mary Ellen also found in her research for the Loneliness Book that people who enjoy time alone and who are not always desperate to be with others are less lonely. She will include in this webinar wellness tools and strategies that help people enjoy and appreciate time alone.
Powerpoint Slide from Using WRAP to Develop a Strong System of Support
Watch the Recording of Using WRAP to Develop a Strong System of Support
Living WRAP
November 18, 2009 
This webinar with Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, explores how people can live day to day using WRAP as their guide to recovery and wellness. She will talk about the importance of hope, personal responsibility, education, self advocacy, support and problem solving in using WRAP. In addition she will share ideas for enhancing each section of WRAP, from the Wellness Toolbox to the Post Crisis Plan, so that it becomes a truly powerful personal guide. Her presentation will include stories that she has gathered from people around the world who use WRAP, stories that illustrate the challenges of using WRAP and the power of WRAP in helping people in improve the quality of their daily lives and going on to meeting their own goals and dreams.
This webinar is open to anyone who is connected to WRAP. However, Dr. Copeland feels it is particularly important that Copeland Center certified WRAP facilitators and anyone who works with others, either in groups or as individuals, including veterans and people in the military attend this webinar.
Mary Ellen Copeland worked with a group of people who have a lived experience of mental health challenges to develop WRAP. She is the author of WRAP® (Wellness Recovery Action Plan), and many other recovery-oriented resources.
This webinar is sponsored by the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery where you can get trained to be a certified WRAP Facilitator and Essential Learning, your resource for online WRAP and recovery courses.
Powerpoint Slides for Living WRAP
Watch the Recording of Living WRAP
WRAP & Healing the Effects of Trauma
Presented by Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
October 21, 2009
Author, educator and mental health advocate, Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, will be speaking on how to frame a personal Wellness Recovery Action Plan for those healing the effects of trauma.
Based on her book, co-authored with Maxine Harris, Healing the Trauma of Abuse: A Women's Workbook, this webinar will go through the key points of activities and exercises that encourage healing and wellness.
Using Build Your Own WRAP Online, Mary Ellen will demonstrate strategies for healing trauma and increasing wellness.
Mary Ellen Copeland is author of the celebrated WRAP® (Wellness Recovery Action Plan), a simple self-help system for identifying personal resources and then using those resources to stay well and help you when you are feeling badly.
Powerpoint Slides for WRAP & Healing the Effects of Trauma
Watch the Recording of the Webinar
Webinar on Wellness Tools
Presented by Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
September 23, 2009
Author, educator and mental health advocate, Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, described concrete techniques to identify wellness tools for yourself and helpful ideas when working with others to find their wellness tools. The presentation included:
* Simple activities to help identify more wellness tools
* Advice when working with others
* Mary Ellen's favorite wellness tools
* Some commonly over looked but effective wellness tools
Recorded FREE Webinar with Mary Ellen Copeland_ PhD_ on Wellness Tools
Powerpoint Slides from the Webinar
Working with Veterans and Military Personnel: How WRAP Can Make a Difference
Presented by Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD
July 29, 2009
Learn how Wellness Recovery Action Planning can successfully help veterans to achieve recovery. Dr. Copeland will share what she has learned working with veterans and consulting with veteran organizations across the country. The following topics will be discussed:
- Why WRAP® works so well for veterans.
- Introducing WRAP® to veterans and engaging them in the WRAP® process either as individuals or in groups.
- How veterans need to be supported while they are developing and using their WRAP® over time.
- The values that providers must follow to assure optimum outcomes in using WRAP® with veterans.
- How to integrate Wellness Recovery Action Planning into the programs at your agency or organization.
