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Shery Mead had her first encounter with the mental health system as a teenager. It was a time when most people were over-medicated, shock treatments were routine, and no one even asked about trauma and abuse. She was offered life in a halfway house and a limited future. Needless to say, it was not much to look forward to.
– Shery Mead, Founder of IPS. Intentional Peer Support is a way of thinking about and inviting transformative relationships. Practitioners learn to use relationships to see things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns, and support and challenge each other in trying new things.
Apr 17, 2016 · Interview with Shery Mead. EM: Can you tell us a little bit about Intentional Peer Support, its philosophy and intentions?. SM: IPS is a system for relational co-development.
Shared Risk: Redefining Safety. Sustaining Intentional Peer Support in Crisis Alternatives. Peer Support as a Socio-Political Response to Trauma and Abuse. Intentional Peer Support as Social Change. Rights, Research, and Liberation. Crisis as an Opportunity for Growth and Change (Languages: English; Nederlands) Peer Support: A Systemic Approach.
Intentional Peer Support (IPS): Intentional Peer Support (IPS) is a groundbreaking approach that forms the core foundation of FolkTime. Developed by Shery Mead and Chris Hansen, IPS is a transformative practice that emphasizes authentic human connections, reciprocity, and mutual learning among individuals with lived experience of mental health ...
Shery Mead. Shery Mead had her first encounter with the mental health system as a teenager. It was a time when most people were over-medicated, shock treatments were routine, and no one even asked about trauma and abuse. She was offered life in a halfway house and a limited future. Needless to say, it was not much to look forward to.
The model of Intentional Peer Support (IPS), as described by Shery Mead, is ‘a system of giving and receiving help founded on key principles of respect, shared responsibility, and mutual agreement of what is helpful’ (Mead 2003).
