Upcoming and Previous Webinars
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Upcoming Webinars
Creating A Culture of Wellness: A Path To Eliminating Seclusion and Restraints - February 29, 2012 2pm - 3:30pm EST
WRAP® for the Effects of Trauma with Mary Ellen Copeland - March 21, 2012 2pm - 3pm DST
Previous Webinars
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Writing Grant Proposals for WRAP
WRAP as an Evidence-Based Practice w/ Judith Cook and Matthew Federici
WRAP for Kids
WRAP P.A.L.S Webinar
Great WRAP Facilitation
Principles for Staying Sane While Effectively Helping a Loved One in Crisis- Presented by MindFreedom
WRAP Overview
WRAP as an Evidence-Based Practice
Everything you need to know about the WRAP Around the World Conference
Loneliness & WRAP
WRAP for Kids
Wellness Tools
Taking Charge of Your Mind and Making Your Life Go Well
Exploring Fun With WRAP
Enhancing WRAP
WRAP and Weight Loss
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
Writing Grant Proposals for WRAP
February 9, 2012 2pm -3:30 pm EST
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WRAP as an Evidence-Based Practice w/ Judith Cook and Matthew Federici
January 10, 2012
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WRAP for Kids
December 19, 2011 from 2-3pm Eastern Time
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WRAP P.A.L.S Webinar
November 10, 2011
Great WRAP Facilitation
July 18th, 2011
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Principles for Staying Sane While Effectively Helping a Loved One in Crisis- Presented by MindFreedom
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 2PM-3PM EDT
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WRAP Overview
June 15, 2011
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WRAP as an Evidence-Based Practice
May 19, 2011
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Everything you need to know about the WRAP Around the World Conference
May 12, 2011 2PM-3PM EDT
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Loneliness & WRAP
April 27, 2011 2pm-3pm EST
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WRAP for Kids
April 13, 2011, 2PM EST
Many people are interested in supporting children to create their own personal WRAPs. Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD will discuss 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 lead participants through the process of developing a WRAP with children and answer questions that come up specifically with supporting children including encouragement, introduction to WRAP, and more.
“A WRAP Workbook for Kids”, by Dr. Copeland was originally published in 2007, this incredible resource has been updated with a fresh, new layout and a WRAP from a new child.
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Wellness Tools
March 16, 2011, 1PM EST
Wellness Tools are the heart of WRAP. It's easier to increase the level of Wellness Tools in our lives than to start from square one. We can also invent new Wellness Tools to fit certain situations.
Carol Bailey Floyd will be presenting and facilitating the webinar. Through participation in the FREE "Wellness Tools Webinar, you will:
- Explore why and how Wellness Tools can play a vital role in our lives
- Learn about the new and fun Wellness Tools
- Discover new ways to think about and use Wellness Tools
- Hear why collecting Wellness Tools is one of the best hobbies ever.
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Taking Charge of Your Mind and Making Your Life Go Well
March 3, 2011, 2PM EST
Janet Foner, Board member and chair of the Choices in Mental Health committee of MindFreedom International, will present a system that anyone can use with friends/peers, without mental health professionals involved, to reclaim their mind and make their life go well. She will talk about five ways to refocus one's mind off distress and onto rewarding and fun things. These include setting up a peers/friends/family listening network, having fun every day, setting goals to make your life the life of your own choosing, how to make the repeated decision to refocus onto rewarding things, and how to reclaim your natural healing process.
Al Galves, Board member and committee member of the Choices in Mental Health committee of MindFreedom International, will present an exercise which you can use to be able to control your attitude towards your thoughts and your reactions to your thoughts. He will lead you through the exercise of relaxing, paying attention to your breathing, and letting thoughts go. You will learn how to step away from your thoughts, get a little separation from them and decide how to react to them.
At the end of the presentation, you'll learn about MindFreedom International and how to join it if you choose to do so. www.mindfreedom.org
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Breathing Exercise instructions
Exploring Fun With WRAP
February 23, 2011, 1PM EST
Have you ever explored the possibilities of fun and creativity in WRAP® (Wellness Recovery Action Plan)? Often people feel like they don't have a right to have fun because of the situations they are facing in their lives. It's important to give yourself permission to be playful - you may not have fun all day long, but you don't have to be serious all day long either! There's energy associated with fun and creativity that can be incorporated into wellness tools, action plans, the daily maintenance section, and more. This energy can help diminish and even eliminate rough times and can liven up our days! This webinar is applicable for anyone who: has a WRAP®, is interested in WRAP® in general, is thinking about creating a WRAP®, or who loves someone who has a WRAP®. Carol will give an overview of WRAP® while exploring the fun and creative aspects of it.
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Enhancing WRAP
Wednseday, October 13, 2010, 2-3 EST
Online and on the phone
In this webinar, Dr. Mary Ellen Copeland will discuss using various techniques to help people uncover more wellness tools, and develop more user-friendly action plans. In addition she will describe strategies for making WRAP groups more interesting and fun for the participants. This webinar is designed for people who are developing, or considering developing their own Wellness Recovery Action Plan, and for people who are supporting others in developing their WRAP, as well as for those who are facilitating WRAP groups. In addition she will answer questions about WRAP and about her new book, WRAP Plus.
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WRAP and Weight Loss
Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 2-3pm EDT
Online and on the phone
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, will present 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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
