Liberated Life Coaching - MHANYS CarePath™ Coaching Program

MHANYS CarePath™ Coaching Program

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A CarePath� is a blueprint you create during our work together that will help you achieve better overall health & well-being � by your own individual definition. A CarePath� consists of the roadmaps, tools, and new habits of building wellness and self-care you build � as a plan-ahead rather than something overlooked in the hustle of life. We help build the habit of checking in with yourself and making deliberate choices to take better care of yourself.

The MHANYS CarePath� program provides coaching assistance for 90 days to youth or adults ages 12 & up who can use to raise their self-care, communication skills, and improve their wellness.

MHANYS CarePath™ provides an opportunity to work on wellness & resiliency to build up yourself in partnership with your support system. Each participant ��both client & supporters � will work on their own CarePath�.

Introduction

The MHANYS CarePath� Coaching Program provides small group coaching designed for an individual (the client) to choose a few of their own supporters (other participants), such as family or friends, to join them in their coaching group to create a CarePath� of their own alongside the individual being coached. This way both they and their supporters also are working on wellness in parallel, and establishing a better bond, common language and experiences, and getting to know their own and each other's needs better.

For example, you could have your spouse, siblings, chosen family, best friends, a coworker, parents, or children in your CarePath� group for the program.

The curriculum is founded on the principles of trauma-informed care, wellness, belongingness, inclusion, relationships & building resilience.

Who Is This Coaching Program Suitable For

This is a group coaching program for persons who are:

starting a mental health journey (newly diagnosed, seeking diagnosis or therapy)
losing interest in life (but not in crisis yet)
struggling to get to work & motivate yourself to work (burned out, checked out)
feeling more and more alone, even when someone is in the room
starting to wonder what the point is
wondering if you might need mental health assistance (but not quite there yet)
struggling to come down from the hustle of the pandemic (frontline health workers)
feeling unsupported but still trying to communicate your needs with your supporters

We work only with adults in our program, but other CarePath� coaches are available for ages 12+.

Program Goal

By the end of the program, our goal is that participants will all have more hope, resilience, wellness skills, shared language around wellness, better self-awareness, increased belongingness and sense of community with each other and that you all can take care of yourself and support each other better.

You & your supporters may have your own goals for the program.

If you're interested in the CarePath� program, you and each of your supporters will create your own CarePath�; you can think of it as building an individualized plan for how to work towards your own better health. This is what makes MHANYS CarePath� unique; it recognizes that relationships are central to achieving and maintaining wellness � because when a loved one is not doing well, it also impacts everyone who cares about them.

Our role as your Certified CarePath� Coach is to support you and your supporters in learning about how wellness operates on a continuum, and to help each participant define your own journey of health & wellness. You and your supporters each create your own CarePath� and share the experience of learning, selecting support tools to enhance your mind-body health � and as a result, everyone in the group builds their individual resilience together.

Getting Started

You can schedule a 30-minute informational meeting to ask preliminary questions and determine whether or not you're interested in one of our MHANYS program offerings. We can discuss what supporters you might want to have in the program, any other preliminary questions you have, before booking a meeting for you and your supporters.If you can't think of anyone you'd trust or rely on to participate with you, we will step into the supporter role as your Certified CarePath� Coach and do the program along with you.

Use this link to book a MHANYS Program Pre-Session Meeting for you (and your supporters, if any). This is scheduled as a 45 minute meeting to make sure that there's enough time to address questions for you and your supporters, and we'll send you (and your supporters if any) some materials and agreements to look over before the session.

Program Background

MHANYS CarePath™ was originally developed to assist people in transitioning from intensive treatment environments (such as inpatient, intensive outpatient, rehab, incarceration, etc.) and their supporters or family to help rebuild relationships and improve everyone's health.

The program has been adapted for folks who are on the verge of burnout, frontline healthcare workers (including non-medical staff, home health aides, caregivers for aging persons, hospice staff, behavioral health care staff, staff within hospital & psychiatric settings, residential centers, supportive housing, school nurses & school counselors ��especially given their work and dedication during the COVID-19 pandemic), and their supporters or families. We're also willing to share this program with others � so it's not limited to those folks.

What are the program meetings like?

We � you, your supporters (if any) and your CarePath� Coach (us) � will meet for 10 sessions during the 90 day program � about once a week. Sessions are 1 hour long, and have the same basic agenda:

Welcome back!
read the Communication Guidelines together
share where we are on the Wellness Continuum
share our Wellness Temperature
work on 1 or more new skills together
- new skills include aspects of wellness, self-care, and tools we may want to implement between our meetings
share our tools we want to implement before the next meeting
set the time & date for our next meeting & conclude any other group business

How We Offer this Program

Rev. Criss is a Certified MHANYS CarePath™ Coach, and due to health restrictions:

program offerings will be 10 sessions of about 1 hour each online in either a Zoom room, or in a Jitsi Meet fully encrypted video call environment. We can accommodate participants in other ways if necessary.
Rev. Criss will participate with screen sharing for materials, but will not be on camera. Other participants are welcome to utilize their cameras if they wish to. (This is due to our own trauma, no other reason.)
Rev. Criss will do their best to accommodate people of all abilities. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs or concerns.

Program Fees & Scholarships

Here's our suggested sliding scale fees, and we're happy to work out payment plans and other arrangements that make sense for participants:

Participants	Full Program Fee (sliding scale) USD
1	$700-$1250
2	$1000-$1800
3+	$1225-$2100

We understand that not everyone has the means to meet our requested fees, so please do ask about scholarships & partial scholarships if needed � also ask your supporters if they can chip in. Paying part of the fee for the program preserves a partial scholarship for others. We have set aside a few full and partial scholarship opportunities for this program. We also have set aside 3 full scholarships for frontline healthcare workers in New York State � if you fall into this category and can cover even part of your fees, a partial scholarship remains for others.

Also, other CarePath� coaches may be available for you if you are in New York State: please check with MHANYS or do a web search ��once they have a directory we will list it.

What is covered?

The MHANYS CarePath� Coaching Program consists of a pre-visit (no charge), over 10 hours of meeting time over a 90 day period and all participants can reach out to the Certified CarePath� Coach by email for between-session support, plus administration time. Some phone support may also be available. Note: We are not available for crisis support: please call 911 for emergencies, 988 for crisis support (in the US), or see our Resources page for information for crisis resources (mostly US resources), or utilize your local emergency support team or national/regional help lines for assistance if you have a crisis situation.

Please see the program brochure for more information.

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Testimonials

(texttrim This group (and the intake for it) was my first major interaction with the Crisses, and I came away very honored for having been part of the experience. This group was an incredibly engaging place where we felt safety for many members of our system to come out and express ourselves, as well as learn from both the wisdom of others and the experience of a very mature, mentorship-focused system. The Crisses did an incredible job advocating for everyone internal to the system, and going way far above and beyond the call of duty to actually invest in everyone and keep up with how theyre doing. As a system, they are incredibly generous and kind, and set a strong example for how to safely engage with a crazy, topsy-turvy world from a place of healthy functional plurality .(much more, follow link…)') (more)

I can't recommend these programs enough. This is one of those experiences that is very hard to describe, and I have nothing but positive things to say about it. Many of the critical ideas presented here are absent in one form or another from modern mainstream therapeutic literature, and that's to the detriment of that side of the field. It is certainly no wonder that recovery from complex trauma and structural dissociation is still very difficult within the modern therapeutic landscape -- the generally available tools are quite lacking. The concepts that the Crisses presented were not only easy to understand, but immediately effective, broadly applicable, and more directly accomplished what a lot of therapy/self-help materials only indirectly accomplished over a longer timespan. I did not find these concepts pseudoscientific in the least, and when concepts have been derived from multicultural spiritual traditions, they are presented in an inclusive manner which allows for one to take the essence of the idea without necessarily committing to that particular spiritual modality. Time and time again, the Crisses hit the mark on finding empirically effective methods, have a broad and well-integrated understanding of both the theories and history of the surrounding psychology, and also have well-connected the plurality of therapeutic modalities deriving from said theories.

I was a part of one of the trial groups, which was offered for free, and I've personally found I've gotten so much value and personal respect for the Crisses that I'll be going back and paying for it as if it was a "real" non-trial group session. In terms of group belonging, safety, and attachment, I found myself very much missing the group as we headed into the last two weeks. I simply didn't want it to end. This experience is worth every bit of what you put into it, and I'd reach out to the Crisses to start a conversation even if a group session and/or personal coaching is outside of your financial avenues. I firmly believe that everyone on the plurality spectrum would benefit from going through these groups, multiple times, to learn all of the layered lessons that lay the foundation for an incredibly healthy system. I now have the tools I need, far more than before, to really start making a healthy impact in my own life. Additionally, it's helped me provide support in my personal relationships and interactions with other systems as well.

Put simply -- you won't regret it.

-- Anonymous Four, Building Trust group alum

Crisses are like a thousand breaths of fresh air. We used to be worried we were an awful help rejecting monster of a human... (more)

Since we�ve found Crisses, it seems we are more than willing to try things - simply because time and time again, their advice has proven effective for helping us get to wherever we�re trying to go. Not one tiny bit of hurting either, just hope, and relief, almost like they're breathing it out wherever they go.

We recently finished a coaching group led by Crisses, and will be eternally grateful for the opportunity to attend. Before the course was even halfway through, our system had broken out of what seemed like a neverending chronic freeze, and we had people journalling, making agreements, plans, and communicating regularly throughout each day. Also, lots of odd things we have going on inside and never managed to make sense of were easily validated or explained by Crisses, which really helped us feel more solid and sure of ourselves. The coaching took us way beyond where we could ever have imagined in just a few short weeks.

I expect we will be reaping the benefits of this coaching for many years to come. If you get the chance to spend even a few minutes with Crisses, I highly recommend seizing it with both hands. Probably some of the most empowering, open-minded, open-hearted peoples you'll find on this Earth.

--Freda's People, Internal Communication Group Coaching Pilot (2)

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