Behavioral Health Peer Support & Wellness trainings, naturally.
MUSKEG Wellness gives holistic, evidence-based peer-to-peer trainings that support people in recovery from trauma, addiction, and emotional storms. Participants learn to use their valuable life experience to become inspired Peer Support Professionals in a more well-rounded, effective behavioral health system. In the past few years, MUSKEG Wellness has trained up over 260 peers around Alaska with our excellent, inspired team of Peer Trainers. We also provide peer-to-peer wellness workshops for a variety of ages and needs.
To prevent burnout and protect peer programs from high turnover rates, we have developed an annual Peer Support Programs Quality Assurance & Coaching Package. This provides comprehensive support for an agency, including live trainings, workshops, and monthly coaching sessions for your Peer Teams (and partners).
If you are interested, please get in touch!
Below are our current offerings:
Natural Peer Support
This is a 38-hour Alaska State-approved training for Peer Support Certification. Explore the recovery principles and practices of hope, mutuality, “being with”, and strengths-based language. Study the history and leaders of the Peer Support movement as well as alternate views on madness and addiction. Practice co-counseling, telling your recovery story, and role-playing. Learn Peer Support as a discipline with unique skills, effective for suicide and overdose prevention. Study these best practices in alignment with SAMHSA’s Core Competencies for Peer Support Professionals.
This is a highly interactive in-person training, designed for people who have personal experience with recovery from emotional storms, trauma, and addiction, as well as family members. It is an opportunity to study new skills, share our life experiences, and join the worldwide peer empowerment movement, effective for suicide prevention, intervention, and post-vention.
‣ held in your city or town, with a customized schedule over 1-2 weeks
‣ for Alaska Peer Support Certification, CEUs are available.
NEXT training: Fairbanks, Spring 2026.
Extra Required Classes (ERC):
A package of all the extra required classes for Alaska Peer Support Certification: 6 hours Blood-borne Pathogens/AIDS/HIV, 3 hours Alaska PS Ethics, 3 hours Confidentiality
NEXT ERC: location and dates TBD
Traditional Path Training
This 12-hour live training brings in the wisdom from Alaska’s Traditional Tribal Healers. This path leads away from the traumas of colonization and opens up toward the strengths of Alaska’s indigenous cultural roots. We build upon the idea that culture IS medicine. We learn tribal healing modalities and study traditional values; challenge each other to grow beyond historical trauma, current limiting beliefs, or harmful circumstances, and build healthy community-based lives.
This is a highly interactive training, designed for tribal people who have personal experience with recovery from emotional storms, trauma and addiction, or family members.
‣ in person, immersive learning held over two days in your city or town
‣ approved for Alaska Traditional Peer Support Certification, CEUs available
NEXT training: Fairbanks, Spring, 2026.
Wellness Worshops:
YES! Youth Empowerment & Support
A 20-hour immersive, guided experience built upon Peer Support and Somatics practices. Helpful for suicide prevention, emotional self-care and confidence building, the learnings in YES! challenge participants to move beyond current limiting beliefs or harmful circumstances, and build healthy, community-embedded lives. This workshop is designed for young humans ages 16-26 who share difficult experiences in common to build a self-care toolbox while also identifying and sharing strengths, and supporting each other’s healing and growth. It does not focus on diagnoses or deficits, but is rooted in compassion and companionship among a community of equals. The curriculum is quite interactive, dynamic, trusting, optimistic, and hopeful. It includes:
Recognizing Emotions
The Developing Brain & Nervous System
Self Talk & Self Compassion
Exploring Our Cultural Inheritances
Peer Support Circles
Deep Listening
Staying Safe: Identifying My Yes’s and Voicing My No’s
YES! participants will receive good meals, workbooks, blank writing or drawing books to bring home, plus a graduation certificate and special graduation gift.
NEXT training: dates TBD
Mud & Lotus: Elemental Pain Management Workshop
A two-day journey guiding anyone who is experiencing chronic pain, brain fog, fatigue, headaches, or anxiety through somatic self-care practices, brain health tips, and practices of appreciation, hope, and deep listening, which support freedom from physical pain and brain uneasiness. Developed especially for those experiencing traumatic brain injuries, but also nourishing for elders, those with long COVID, and anyone coping with long-standing pain.
Grief Ceremony
Our amazing indigenous trainers utilize the ancient tools of art, movement, music, circles, and ceremony to help with healing from the anxiety and overwhelm of grief and loss.
Contact us for details.
Calming Crisis
A 12 hour workshop for practicing effective crisis intervention, peer-to-peer, human-to-human. What works to bring down elevated emotions? How can we calm someone who is highly charged, angry, yelling, or threatening? How do we find connection when someone is in a delusional state, seeing or hearing things we can’t see or hear? How can we calm fear and keep it from dominating a scene?
CONTACT us for more information!
