The volunteer program serves to build and strengthen a sense of community through service and offers participants the opportunity to experience the therapeutic value of helping others. Through more than 70 hours of training and on-going supervision, volunteers learn to facilitate a psychological climate of safety in which clients can work through and let go of fear and conflict, overcome self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, deepen their relationships, and empower a higher quality of inner life.
Volunteer Facilitator Training is intended for people who are willing to learn and apply Attitudinal Healing in their own lives and to make a one-year commitment to facilitating support groups using the Attitudinal Healing model. At the training workshop volunteers learn the qualities of supportive relationships, practice effective peer-to-peer support skills and experience the Attitudinal Healing approach to group facilitation.
The Attitudinal Healing approach is based on a peer-support model. No counseling background is necessary. The heart of the Center’s approach is peer support: the extra-ordinary ability of ordinary people to be of service to each other. The training is offered free of charge to participants who are able and willing to make a one-year volunteer commitment. Other participants pay tuition of $150 per weekend.
