Wise Peer Communication

Course Description

Wise Peer 2020 Life Saver Curriculum

Three 4-week courses teach 40+ healing tools & techniques that vibrantly engage your heart, mind, body and soul.
Grounded in the work of Carl R. Rogers this technology of love produces fresh insights and trains you in 40+ tools & techniques that make communication and relationships work!
Wise Peer’s process of transformative healing resolves patterns that cause self-sabotage, conflict and isolation. Restoring intimacy and connection to freely give and receive love, rediscover spontaneity, playfulness and creativity.

Can anyone learn to become a Wise Peer? Read more here.

How it Works

Each course is 4 3-hr classes over 4 weeks.
Each class is equal parts lecture, demo, practice sessions with fellow students and vigorous Q & A.
Between classes, once a week, you conduct a peer-to-peer practice session with a fellow student, taking turns as speaker and listener, and thus providing healing transformation for every student.

What You Will Learn

Note: Wise Peer 2020 Life Saver is a healing system in which each person is trained, both, as giver and receiver of peer-support.

You become trained in clear, complete, empathetic, and authentic communication. To accomplish this, Wise Peer trains you in the following proficiencies:

Wise Peer Session Protocol
Wise Peer Listening Model
Wise Peer Trauma Model
The Five Steps of Wise Healing
A series of Embodiment Tools
Support Tools & Techniques for the Listener Role
Support Tools for the Speaker Role
40+ Transformative Tools, Skills & Techniques

What You Will Solve

Never being truly heard and seen
Being reactive in relationships
Old problems hanging around
Misunderstandings that keep happening
Talking over each other
Not feeling valued

Feeling stuck
Feeling defensive
Can't make sense of your relationships
Keep on doing what doesn't work
No playfulness

What is Wise Peer Support?

Unlike in counseling or therapy in which one person is the designate healer and the other the individual who needs healing, Wise Peer Support is mutual and equal. Working in pairs in a precisely-structured "container," each person takes a full turn. Both parties offer and receive Wise Support. Each party, during their turn as speaker, is in charge of their own process. During their turn as listener, each party witnesses the peer with love and all the skills of a Wise Peer.

Who Wise Peer is For

Family Members

who want vibrant and healthy communication rather than a lot of second-guessing and/or who want to resolve and heal misunderstandings of the past and prevent them in the future.

Healers & teachers

who want to expand their knowledge base of empathetic and facilitative listening to quickly and easily establish an authentic connection with clients students and patients to meet them where they are and facilitate their inner wisdom to produce empowering insights and tailor-made solutions.

Co-workers & Pproject Leaders

who want communication that makes collaboration safe and easy by solving the human factor, such as gripes, grudges, bad attitudes, shyness, or dominant personalities.

Organizations

who want to quickly and easily achieve group consensus through communication structures that allow everyone to be heard and/or who want to create settings that allow the kind of free-flow of creativity that leads to innovation.

If Wise Peer feels like a good fit . . .

Testimonials

The Wise Peer Curriculum

Wise Peer teaches 40+ concepts, life skills, tools, and embodiment techniques that can heal and transform individuals and groups into more loving, mutually supportive and collaborative communities.

The Wise Peer Foundation Course

This 4-week course is mainly inward-facing, teaching you tools that empower and heal you.

You experience being fully heard out and become trained and empowered to fully hear out the other person, leading you to effectively problem solve, resolve conflict, and even heal hurts and traumas of the past. Through this, life together becomes peaceful and harmonious without anyone having to feel they've had to "give in" or compromise to keep the peace.

Students learn concepts, tools and embodiment techniques and how to apply them in a structured session format that facilitates trust, connection, collaboration, and the safe release of past hurts and emotional wounds, leading to healing, and the restoration of loving togetherness.

Tuition includes 30-pg manual

The Wise Peer Advanced Course

This 4-week course is more outward-facing, teaching you tools that empower and facilitate others in becoming healed.

You experience being seen to an unprecedented extent as if the other person understood you almost better than you do yourself. You learn to let go of unhealthy enmeshments and become your authentic self with solid boundaries.

Students learn advanced tools to identify unconscious life patters that run the show, learn to distinguish personal biases and conceptions that influence their experiences, and a series of embodiment tools that ingrain the skill to remain their authentic selves rather than become adapted to their environments. As in the Foundation Course, they learn to facilitate these processes in others.

Tuition includes 42-pg manual

The Wise Peer Master Course

This 4-week course is inward and outward-facing, teaching you tools for transformation.

You experience freedom from the patterns of your past and can facilitate achievement of this freedom for others. You become a master at connecting with your divine inner wisdom, putting insights at your fingertips that lead to tailor-made solutions. You will be able to let go and learn to rest more deeply than you imagined possible.

Students learn to distinguish which patterns of behavior they do well with and which are triggers. They learn master facilitation tools. They become skilled in the art of allowing cognitive dissonance. They learn to become whole and deeply self-accepting. This leads to unprecedented freedom, making it possible to design their life and facilitate others in designing theirs.

Tuition includes 38-page manual

Wise Peer Certification

Requirements

Complete Foundation, Advanced, Master Course
Attend 12 classes
Conduct 12 peer-counseling sessions with an assigned partner
Complete three-month post-class practicum at the end of the Master Course
Proficient with each of the three manuals
Demonstrate proficiency in a peer-counseling demonstration with an assigned partner.

You will receive exquisite support on your journey of becoming a certified Wise Peer. The principles, tools and techniques of Wise Peer Communication will be utilized in your training. The certification process will be attentive to and encouraging of the unique gifts you bring to being a Wise Peer. You will be honored for exactly who you are.

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Testimonials

This evening, I led the Olympia Community for Interfaith Celebration through a version of Wise Peer, inspired by your workshop at the 2017 Gender Odyssey. There were 40-50 people present. The tool was very well received. In the debrief, one member stated that she had a friend that just lost her brother and his entire family in a car crash. She wanted to "be there" for her friend and now she knew she could be because she had a tool she could use to simply listen and witness her friend through the grieving process. You've given a huge gift to the world. Thank you so much!

-Jamie Rainwood, Olympia

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Henry's Teaching Style

So that the learning can enter heart and body, not just mind, Wise Peer workshops employ all seven learning styles with a special emphasis on kinesthetic learning through game-like exercises, interpersonal learning through working in pairs, and aural learning through guided visualizations. Because working together with a partner and playing games in group delivers more and better learning than sitting in a chair for hours, Henry India strives to make the Wise Peer workshop entertaining and collaborative. To tap the power of visual learning, they employ colorful and evocative PowerPoint slides that make complex concepts quickly grasped. Additionally, as a nonbinary individual, Henry connects empathically with people from communities that are often othered.