2016 Recovery Workforce Summit Content Formats

Conversations That Matter – New This Year!

These sessions are facilitated, large- or mid-size group discussions focusing on a specific theme or issue. The purpose is to provide a safe forum to debate and discuss areas of disagreement, confusion, strong emotion, current events/news, and “what this might mean for our industry/profession.” Don’t miss the discussions on the following:

• Who does the Recovery Movement 'belong to'? Is there a role for professionals in the movement?
• Call Me By My True Name: Performing Needs Assessment for Transgender Veterans Programming and Outreach

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A Completely Revamped Health & Wellness Series 

Learning comes in all types of formats, styles, and environments. We’d be remised if we didn’t focus on your body as well as your mind! With that in mind, we’ve added a plethora of health and wellness activities:

• November Project™—An iconic Boston activity where participants take part in a variety of physical activities at the Harvard Stadium.
• Walking for Wisdom—join us for a 3-mile brisk walk around the river, over the BU bridge, and past MIT, as we discuss the climbing suicide rates amongst college students and how stigma, prejudice and discrimination contribute to this growing national crisis.
• Water Aerobics—This class is designed to give you a great workout, with no joint impact, with an hour of cardiovascular exercise and muscle conditioning in the Boston Sheraton Pool.
• Yoga – Back by Popular Demand!—Start your day with the yogis from Health Yoga Life.  Don't worry, you don't have to be an expert in yoga. This session is low-intensity and can be attended in your Summit attire!
• Reiki—A healing approach from Japan that promotes the relaxation response and brings the mind and body into its natural balance. Join us to start your day of learning off on the right foot!

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Ignite – Back by Popular Demand!

Everyone in the psych rehab community has a story to share. Each presentation focuses on empowerment, choice, and/or freedom. During these fast-paced, fun and entertaining sessions, presenters have just 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds, for a total of five minutes. It’s a showcase of talks that might be bold, possibly brash, and maybe even brilliant—but never boring! Hear stories about a personal journey, someone’s passion(s), what gets them up in the morning, and more. Some of this year’s Ignite’s include:

• Unpacking Privileged Messages about Work and Careers
• You Have a Choice - What Matters is How You See Yourself
• Parenthood as a Path to Recovery

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TED-Like Talks – Back by Popular Demand!

Ted-Like Talk presentations are idea-focused, and on a wide range of subjects to foster learning, inspiration and wonder and thus, provoke conversation among the community. Three Ted-Like Talk presentations will be grouped together in one 90 minute session block, allowing for roughly 30 minutes of Q&A following the three Ted-Like Talk presentations. Ted-Like Talks include:

• What Are People Rehabilitating from, Anyway?
• The Safing Center: Treating Veterans Who Use or Experience Intimate Partner Violence
• Heroin and Coffee - A Story About the Safe Injection Facility in Oslo, Norway

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These session formats are combined with symposia, workshops, and concurrent sessions, all of which put you in control of your own professional development. By varying the learning formats you will have options for inspiration, peer learning, in-depth exploration, and hands-on training across a wide-range of subjects.

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Join one of the largest gatherings of Psych Rehab professionals in Boston, May 22–25, as we empower you with new strategies, tools, and research. Register today to engage in learning formats to help enhance your skillset as a psych rehab professional.