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: June 17-21 in Homer, with South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services

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: location and dates TBD

Restoring Our Stories: A Workshop on Intergenerational Trauma & Cultural Oppression

Join us for a powerful two-day gathering focused on healing, education, and community connection. Led by Christina Love—an award-winning advocate, speaker, and trauma educator—who brings a rare blend of lived experience and professional expertise to this transformative space. Together, we’ll explore the deep connections between historical, community, and individual harm, and the ways people and families naturally respond through substance use, mental health experiences, and survival strategies. This workshop will confront harmful myths, systemic racism, and bias—particularly how they continue to impact Alaskan communities today, in 2025. Through storytelling, cultural responsiveness, and trauma-informed practices, participants will gain practical tools to support individuals, children, and families. Grounded in truth, resilience, and collective care, this workshop celebrates the power of relationship, community, and healing. This experiential training is both a celebration of Native people and culture, and a love letter to all Alaskans—emphasizing the vital importance of honoring Indigenous identities, traditions, and wisdom.

‣ in-person, immersive learning held over two days in your city or town

‣ for 12-35 participants

NEXT workshop: Fairbanks Native Association, July 16 & 17

YES! Youth Empowerment & Support

Young humans are innately strong in the area of support, yet they need guidance to stay safe, and stay well. This is a 20-hour training around Somatic self-care, Peer Support, and listening to our bodies’ signals, wherein young people can learn to transform past experiences of hardship into healing for themselves and others. How can they inspire and empower each other?  Young participants will learn how to walk beside a peer when they are in trouble; practice deep listening & co-counseling; and hold a support circle. They will practice listening to and voicing their body's yes and no, safety and danger, signals. They will practice how to advocate effectively for themselves and their friends, and how to facilitate community resilience, starting with their own somatic wellness skills.

‣ held in your city or town, with a customized schedule

‣ for 8-15 participants ages 16 -26

NEXT training: Kenai, dates TBD

Essential Peer Support Supervision

Many behavioral health clinicians and providers around Alaska will find themselves newly supervising certified Peer Support Specialists now. In this 8-hour training, learn how Peer Supports can augment treatment teams, and help to achieve positive outcomes for clients. Learn how to effectively support Peer Staff, how to keep everyone safe, and what the worldwide standards are for Peer Support Services.

‣ via zoom - hands-on, immersive learning

‣ CEUs available

Mud & Lotus: Elemental Pain Management Workshop

A three-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.

‣ in person, hands-on, immersive learning held in your city or town

‣ for 12-35 participants

Grief Ceremony

The amazing Samantha Caneles, from www.apianagriefsupport.com in California, specializes in holding Indigenous communities through their grief from loss from suicide and overdose. Samantha will visit your community, providing some tools for connecting to the earth to help with the anxiety and overwhelm of grief, an honoring of the loss, some information about the grief process, and a talking circle for participants to give voice to their grief journey.

This is held over a weekend, with optional follow-up personalized Zoom sessions.

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?

• ‣ in-person, immersive learning held over two days in your city or town

  ‣ for 12-35 participants

CONTACT us for more information!