NAMI offers several free educational classes. To find out about scheduling and signing up, please email info@namiseaz.org
Peer to Peer Class
NAMI Peer-to-Peer is an 8 week recovery-focused course for adults with mental health conditions. The course is designed to encourage growth, healing and recovery among participants. Taught by trained leaders with lived experience, this program includes activities, discussions and informative videos.
- The program is led by peers with mental health conditions.
- Information is included on conditions such as major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and others.
- Participants leave NAMI Peer-to-Peer with a customized relapse prevention plan and a form they can use to create their own Advance Directive for Mental Healthcare Decision Making.
- Discussion and interactive exercises focus on mindfulness and meditation, relapse prevention, and healthy coping skills to help cope with life’s challenges.
- Classes are free and confidential.
- Classes are open to any adult living with a mental illness.
The Class includes:
- Current information about the major mental illnesses and the most current research available on the biological aspects of these illnesses, medications, side effects, etc.
- Information on recovery, including a variety of treatment strategies currently available.
- Skills training in the areas of problem solving, listening, communication techniques, and handling crisis and relapse.
- Understanding how symptoms affect thought, feelings, and behavior, and teaches coping strategies.
- Promotes stigma reduction through education and personal contact with individuals with a mental illness.
What Participants say about Peer-to-Peer
“The class is uplifting, life-saving and an eye-opening experience that changed how I see myself.”
“The biggest thing I gained from this class was to become my own advocate and best friend.”
“Seeing my peers’ strength and dedication to their recovery was personally meaningful.”