Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP©)
WRAP© was founded by Mary Ellen Copeland in the US in 1997 to support those who were experiencing serious mental illness yet were working hard to feel better and get on with their lives. The aim was to provide practical and personalised strategies for regaining and sustaining their own wellness.
Since then, it has grown, developed, and is now recognised as one of the most widely circulated evidence-based programmes within the United States, Europe and Australia, and it’s now available in the UK and Ireland.
This unique programme approaches mental health issues and life’s inevitable challenges from a primary intervention and recovery model perspective, empowering participants to adapt and apply their own personalised action plan throughout their lifetime using the taught framework. This then enables the participants to support others with their own framework, however this is dependent on the depth of training participants choose to take part in.
The 5 Key Concepts of WRAP©
Hope
We evaluate what ‘hope’ means and how we can nurture hope to help us through tough times.
Personal Responsibility
It’s up to us, we look as the benefits of accepting responsibility of our wellbeing, and the risks in ignoring it.
Self-Advocacy
Exploring effective and practical tools that amplify your voice, empowering you to speak up with confidence and achieve what you need.
Support
While working toward wellness is up to you, we often need to reach out and get support from friends, family or professionals, which can be daunting, we develop a realistic plan for this.
Education
Self-awareness, understanding how experiences impact us as an individual, and how we can best equip ourselves to react and respond to experiences with emotional intelligence at the for.
What make us unique to other WRAP© providers:
- We use a number of the Advanced Level WRAP© Facilitators available within Northern Ireland to assist in the delivery of the 2 and 5 Day WRAP training.
- Our courses are specifically designed to enhance delivery in a way that addresses the needs of that specific group, to ensure that participants get as much out of their time with us as possible.
- We do not deliver a clinical ‘service user’ programme, but rather a programme that moulds the needs of both the organisation and participants.
- We have adapted the WRAP© programme to include additional, practical, fun and engagement elements to aid retention, recall and understanding of key concepts in the programme.
- We provide a 6-month aftercare service
- A team of facilitators and highly experienced practitioners from a range of backgrounds and disciplines.
WRAP® 2-DAY COURSE
The 2 Day WRAP© course equips individuals and teams with the knowledge, understanding and tools to sustain their wellbeing throughout life, as well as the ability to support others to develop wellbeing action plans, when needed, on a 1-1 basis.
This training has been widely successful in a range of fields, such as managers at all levels, teachers, those working in wellbeing and (insert another example) to name a few.
Training is delivered over 2 full consecutive days and can be delivered to whole groups within businesses or communities. This course is also available for individuals to attend in an open session format, we hold an open session od WRAP© 2 Day once per quarter, this allows both individuals and smaller groups to attend without worry of reaching the minimum number needed to run their own session.
WRAP® FACILITATOR TRAINING 5-DAY COURSE
This intensive 5-day course prepares participants to facilitate WRAP workshops within their organisation, equipping them with the skills and materials to support others through the 2 Day WRAP© course.
WRAP© facilitator training provides an experiential learning environment, with interactive learning activities and demonstrations that are relevant to hire own experiences applying WRAP©.
This training is appropriate for anyone how has already completed a 2-day WRAP© course (or its equivalent), and now wishes to go on to deliver the 2-day course within their own organisation/groups. It is expected that the individuals have a good working knowledge of WRAP©.
Please note that all WRAP© courses must be delivered by a minimum of two qualifies facilitators to comply with the values and ethics of the course, and facilitators will need to attend a refresher course every two years.
This programme has been delivered and implemented successfully across Northern Ireland, within schools, wellbeing committees, community committees, youth groups, etc.
For further info, contact us for a chat!