presented by Dina Tyler and Kenneth Kozi Arrington

Where:  Cypress Community Center, Room 6, 403 Cypress Ave, San Jose (Map/Directions)

 Fee: workshop is free.  REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Please email sbpr6666@gmail.com

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eCPR is a public health educational program designed to teach people

to assist others through an emotional crisis by three simple steps:

C=Connecting, P=emPowering, and R=Revitalizing. The Connecting

process of eCPR involves deepening listening skills including listening

with our eyes, ears, and heart to open up communication, feel the

person’s presence and create a sense of safety for the person

experiencing a crisis. The emPowering process involves supporting

people to feel their passion, purpose and power and to accept the

uncertainty of not knowing what is best, but open to collaborative

exploration. In the Revitalization process, we revitalize our authentic

self and experience increased energy, hope and a renewed sense of

meaning, purpose and belonging. We experience and explore our vital

center – our truth and our genuine voice.

Through a combination of presentation, interactive discussions, and

dynamic real-plays, participants learn to embody the key concepts

involved in effectively supporting a person through an emotional crisis

This one-day presentation of eCPR is appropriate for the diverse

general public, people who themselves have experienced emotional

crisis, broad-based human service providers, family members.

Dina Tyler is a psychiatric survivor, advocate and peer supporter. She is

the Director of the Bay Area Mandala Project, a group bringing together

alternative healing communities to support the transformational and

spiritual aspects of extreme states of consciousness. She has seven

years experience in community mental health working in early

psychosis programs around the Bay Area, bringing compassionate

alternative approaches to people experiencing extreme states

commonly diagnosed as Schizophrenia and Bipolar. She is a Co–

Founder and Board Member of Bay Area Hearing Voices, and a

facilitator of the Voices, Visions, and Different Realities Support group

in San Francisco, California. She was awarded the prestigious Peer

Specialist of the Year by the National Council for Behavioral Health in

2015 for her work with young adults recently diagnosed with

Schizophrenia.

Kenneth Kozi Arrington is the Programs Outreach Coordinator for PEERS.

In this role, Kozi reaches out to various  County Communities, organizations,

agencies and learning institutions that serve and/or educate people with mental health challenges. He is also a facilitator of Emotional CPR, Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Groups, as well as Tobacco Cessation/Harm Reduction Workshops. Kozi

has also served as a Mentor on Discharge through the National Alliance

on Mental Illness (NAMI), and is a certified “Peer 2 Peer” Group

Facilitator and an “In Our Own Voice” (IOOV) Group Facilitator through

NAMI.  He is the co-founder and lead chairperson for the Alameda

County, Pool of Consumer Champions, (POCC), Sexuality & Gender