You are a miracle.
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Susan Rose Blauner
SPEAKER | AUTHOR
National Mental Health Award Winner
SLIDESHOW
Sue presents powerful and engaging keynotes, workshops, breakout sessions, staff trainings, and institutes throughout the U.S. She uses her personal experience as a springboard to empower and educate audiences with an inspiring message of hope and healing.
a view from the couch: a patient perspective
Here, Sue takes her decades of experience as a patient and enlightens those who work with people challenged by mental illness. This workshop is suitable for psychiatric staff, service providers, therapists, students of social work, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, mental health workers.
We focus on C.A.R.E. Compassion, Acceptance, Respect, and Empathy; the ABCs, Availability, Boundaries and Consistency; Five System Integration, Physical, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, and Social.
NEXT DAY-LONG WORKSHOP FEB 25, 2012
breaking the suicide cycle:
the road to personal empowerment
Sue designed this workshop for suicidal thinkers or anyone living with the challenges brought on by mental illness. This workshop is also helpful for mental health providers, to better understand the patient. Through audio, visual, and narrative means, Sue explores the complicated path of healing from suicidal ideation. Diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, depression, and borderline personality disorder, she gives participants a wealth of ideas, tips, and strategies to strengthen their own healing. Sue survived 18 years of suicidal ideation, three attempts, and was hospitalized four times. Audience members learn about Emotional Literacy, Crisis Plans, Mind Training The Brady Bunch Syndrome, Hygience and Self-care, Asking for Help, Affirmations, Medication, Hospitalization, and so much more.
HANDOUTS: Sources of Help, Blank Sources of Help, Feelings Chart, Feelings Galore, Neuron Superhighway, Sample Crisis Plan
