2024 CASRA Spring Gathering
Event Program
DAYS:
May 23
May 23, 2024
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Event Check In/Out |
Check In is from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM at the Sacramento Scottish Rite Masonic Center's lobby. |
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Welcome |
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Coming Together Matters! |
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We are all part of a significant movement recovery coming together for a day. Gatherings like this have three purposes. First to recement each of us in why this work matters so we have the strength to go forward. Second, to witness the stories of each other so we feel seen and part of something greater. And third, to create a picture of the future that builds hope in each one of us. These are both powerfully good and dangerous times for the recovery movement. We’ll use these doing activities that will help us walk out the door stronger by re-cementing our hope together. |
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Navigating Dual Roles |
Sara Prushan, Progress Foundation. Handout(s): |
We are experiencing great changes in behavioral health and the world. At times, it can feel overwhelming, hopeless, lonely, and disconnected.
Many of us in the field of behavioral health find ourselves having intersecting experiences that inform and shape the care we provide. Many of us providing mental health services are or have historically received services or been impacted by the system directly or indirectly. Many of us are closely tied to the field in more personal ways than solely based on our career path. What does this say about our perspectives towards our clients? How does it affect our belief in the ability of the system—one designed to help people heal and achieve their goals? Do we believe providers who are mental health care recipients have more vulnerability to re-traumatization, or do we believe that they are invaluable to the efficacy of a care system? Is the experience we/they bring to the system that of resilience and support? |
Topics we will discuss include:
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Finding the Good |
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This workshop is designed to develop and/or enhance the skills of self-awareness and developing psychological resources to deal with changing times in the field of Recovery. We will focus on the essential components utilized in Dr. Rick Hanson’s practices and writings. These practices are grounded in brain science, positive psychology, and contemplative training. The trainer will outline and discuss various practices and techniques to engage individuals in exploring ways to counter emerging challenges to working in Recovery. This workshop will use a combination of discussion and interactive exercises aimed at increasing awareness of our current challenges and providing participants with alternative daily practices for managing the challenges. Participants will leave this workshop with tools, principles, information, and resources that will enhance their current capacity to be a catalyst for change. |
Participants will be able to:
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How to Rock the Boat...Without Going Overboard: 9 Questions for Effective Advocacy |
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Advocacy is arguably the “bread and butter” of psychosocial rehabilitation and care coordination. Many helping professionals, both new to the advocacy game as well as some seasoned veterans, assume that the first step in advocacy is to start actively advocating with, or on behalf of the person asking for help. This is an understandable urge, but one that can lead to a lack of success, frustration, and even harm. In this workshop, a more thoughtful, reasoned, and effective approach to advocacy will be discussed, as well as a step-by-step process that will make it more likely that you, and more importantly the person who is coming to you for help, will get what they need and want, and eventually do so without your help. |
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Lunch Session - Sticking to Your Gifted Path |
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One of the oldest community-building and movement tools is using gifts. The recovery movement has a focus on strengthening each of us so we can be who we really are and do the work we are meant to do in the world. Gifts, in all cultures, has always been the main path into both of those. We’ll spend this lunchtime together remembering why gifts are so important, identifying a few of our most powerful gifts, and figuring out the next challenges for us in bringing those gifts into our daily life. |
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Disruption, Discovery, and Balance |
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As a Peer Supporting Peers, it is paramount that I take care of ourselves and have Balance in my live. In this interactive Workshop, we will follow along our facilitators recovery journey's from addiction & mental health Issues with a colorful PowerPoint presentation and provided worksheets. We examine Self-Discovery - Health & Nutrition - Education & Employment - Spirituality - Recreation or Re-Creation & Relationships. We will explore these topic areas in real time and/or historically and see if we might want to make some changes, add some enhancements or even things we might want to let go of to have better balance in our lives. It will be a shared learning environment. |
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Having Impossible Conversations |
John Stuart Mills said, “He who knows only his side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion . . . “ Dr. Stephen R. Covey describes Habit 7 of highly effective people as “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” Daryl Davis has stated, “Find someone who disagrees and invite them to your table.” As many people have become increasingly more polarized, we tend to get locked into our perspective and hold different perspectives with contempt. We are encouraged to not talk about a multitude of topics. This workshop stives to make a case that talking with people that hold different perspectives is critical to learning, understanding different views and helps bridge gaps and find allies with a variety of people and most importantly it opens the possibility of changing our mind in the face of better points on any topic. |
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Principle Guided Decision Making |
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Decsion making involves more than following policies and procedures. This workshop explores the factors invovled in our decision making when the situation isn't so clear, and how our decision making process can help build open and honest relationships with those we serve. |
Participants will learn the five factors of principle-guided decsion making:
Participants will be able to apply the five factors in their decision make processes |
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Closing Session - More than You and Me: 4 Paths to Belonging |
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Because it’s common for people in recovery to have stories of feeling like they don’t belong, much of the work in recovery is about supporting people to expand their social connections. But belonging is about much more than human to human connection. People can muster significant feelings of belonging in three other ways, all available to all of us. We’ll spend this hour talking about the 4 Paths to Belonging, and you’ll decide which of the four are your most valued ways into belonging. |
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