Procovery Training and Speaking

Kathleen Crowley speaks, trains and consults nationally on the Procovery program.  Contact information: phone 323-934-4800, fax 323-927-1597, email support@procovery.com. This page provides information on:

Consulting and Training

Sample Presentations and Trainings

Speaking and Training Guidelines and Speaking Engagement Form

Procovery Consulting and Training

Consulting: Institutionalizing the Procovery Program Implementation Model™ in Mental Health Systems

The Procovery program model provides a clear vision and set of principles for overcoming mental illness using a set of concrete, practical, and learnable everyday skills. Because its principles and strategies apply to all stakeholders—clients, families, clinicians, case managers, etc.—we believe we can improve the continuity of care within our system and improve access to care by building bridges to community services and supports.– Diane McFarland, Director of the Division of Comprehensive Psychiatric Services, Missouri Department of Mental Health

Around the United States and the world, region after region is adopting a “recovery-oriented” mental health system, and yet it generally remains a concept without concrete guidance or protocols. Kathleen Crowley and the Procovery Institute have developed a Procovery Program Implementation Model to enable systems and organizations to transform their services and the lives of those they serve, rejuvenate their staff, and build stakeholder and community alliances.  All individuals-whether administrators, staff, consumers, family-can move forward in a structured regional model of Procovery Training, Procovery Circles™, and Procovery Community Building™.

Speaking and Training:

Procovery gives all caregivers  a framework to do what superior caregivers do intuitively. – Lee Jones, M.D.

What if, instead of reaching backward to “recover” in the traditional sense, to a prior state of health, chronically ill individuals—and those who support and treat them—reached forward to procover, to focus on life instead of illness, to build new dreams and find new purpose?  The inspirational and practical message of the Procovery program teaches all individuals, whether practitioners, family, consumers, clergy or administrators, how a simple shift of focus can take place to initiate a transformative cycle of healing. Sample presentations include:

Keynotes: For example, The Power of the Procovery™ Program and Individual Action

Workshops and trainings: The Understanding the Power of the Procovery program series of workshops for individuals—whether staff, consumers, loved ones, clergy, or administrators—deliver informative, easy to implement strategies, giving individuals concrete ideas on how to help bring about the benefits of the Procovery program. Workshops are typically 90 minutes and are aimed at a mixed audience of administrators, practitioners, consumers, family members and the general public, but are also held in intensive, 2 day Rethinking Mental Illness: The Power of the Procovery™ Program structured training conferences. Sample workshops include:

Understanding the Power of the Procovery™ Program: The 8 Principles and 12 Strategies — This overview workshop defines and explains the concept behind the Procovery program and outlines the eight healing principles and twelve major strategies of the Procovery program.

Understanding the Power of the Procovery™ Program: Discussion Forum —This workshop provides an opportunity for open discussion for participants to examine the principles and strategies of the Procovery program and their application in the clinical and personal environment.

Understanding the Power of the Procovery™ Program: Rethinking the role of hope in treatment—The concept and role of hope in treatment is often ignored or misunderstood.  This workshop provides a conceptual basis for understanding hope as a treatment technique or objective, and provides ideas and strategies for building hope.  This workshop also briefly reviews the potential role of Procovery Circles in providing hope.

Understanding Power of the Procovery™ Program: Using the Procovery Program to Improve Partnering in Health Care—Underlying procovery is a new model of mental health collaboration, where professionals and consumers have a partnership role in healing and a mutual stake in treatment compliance. This workshop covers the conceptual basis of improving partnering through the Procovery program and specifically the relationship between compliance and choice; and between hope and motivation.  This workshop also reviews a wide range of procovery-oriented partnering strategies available despite limitations of time and resources.

Understanding the Power of the Procovery™ Program: Faith Communities, Spirituality, and the Procovery program—The Procovery program offers faith communities a bridge between faith and healing from mental illness. This workshop provides clergy and lay leaders a procovery-based framework to support individuals with mental illness to move forward, to build life, despite limitations of systems and symptoms.

Building a New Vision of Support: Starting and Facilitating Procovery Circles™—Procovery Circles™ are for consumers, staff, and/or loved ones, and focus on exploring and growing ways individuals can live productive and fulfilling lives despite chronic illness. By exploring the Procovery program in a group setting, Procovery Circles can inspire members to not only return to meetings (no small task!) but to support and live the Procovery program BETWEEN meetings and to ultimately–both individually and systemically – ripple out very different prognoses. 

In a single session format, this workshop teaches:

1. To understand the role of Procovery Circles in building hope, support and healing
2. To understand how Procovery Circles are initiated and structured
3. To understand Procovery Circle structural fidelity, including of a 14-week Procovery Circle program, complete with handouts, and of an ongoing drop-in Procovery Circle

In an intensive one- to two-day presentation and group interaction format, this workshop also provides training and a toolkit for successfully establishing and running one or multiple Procovery Circles. Learning objectives include:

1. To understand the role of and requirements for Procovery Circle facilitators
2. To be able to identify target characteristics of successful Procovery Circle facilitators and co-facilitators
3. To understand strategies that successful facilitators use and be able to adapt them to individual use
4. To develop a Procovery Circle Blueprint identifying the next steps for the participant and/or participant organization

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Sampling of Presentations and Trainings

April, May, September 2005.  Missouri Department Department of Mental Health.  Rethinking Mental Illness: Introduction to the Procovery program and Starting a Procovery Circle: Procovery Circle Facilitator Training  -- two day training series for consumers, family, staff and community held in  Poplar Bluff, Farmington, and St. Louis. 

April, June, August and October 2005.  Los Angeles Department of Mental Health, Los Angeles California. Practical Procovery Skills for Peer Mentors.

May 2005. Missouri Department of Mental Health. Power of the Procovery Program: Rethinking the Role of Hope in Treatment. 2 1/2 hour workshops for statewide Missouri DMH staff , in Jefferson City, Missouri.

May 2005. Missouri Mental Health Commission. Power of the Procovery program. 30 minute presentation on statewide implementation of Procovery.

November 2004 -January 2005.  Los Angeles Department of Mental Health, Los Angeles California.
Multi-site training series for staff, clients, and family including Introduction to Procovery Program Principles and Strategies; Procovery Circle Facilitatator Training.  CEUs provided.

October 27, 2004  Keynote, 10 Year Anniversary Luncheon, Wisconsin Independent Living Resources, La Crosse, Wisconsin "Power of the Procovery Program in Healing"

May 23-24, 2004 Hope and Recovery VII, Empowering Our Lives  Los Angeles and Cerritos, CA

April 27-29, 2004  Annual Alabama Recovery Conference, Talladega Alabama
Annual Consumer Conference -- Plenary Speaker and Workshops

January 27-28, 2004 La Crosse, Wisconsin. 
Sponsored by La Crosse County Human Services
Two day "Rethinking Mental Illness" Procovery Conference kickoff to a three year mental illness/substance abuse redesign pilot.  Full day trainings for clients and family members, and for staff and community leaders.  Mini-presentations to faith and business leaders.

November 11, 2003 Brookfield, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Grassroots Empowerment Project
Keynote speaker and workshops "Creating Change in Wisconsin" and "Procovery Circles"

November 8, 2003 Lake Ozark, Missouri
NAMI Missouri Annual Conference
Plenary speaker and breakout session, "Power of Procovery: Expanding the Support System"

November 6-7, 2003 Springfield, Missouri
2-day Procovery Training Conference, “Rethinking Mental Illness: The Power of Procovery,” hosted by Burrell Behavioral Health and co-sponsored by Southwest Missouri State University Department of Counseling.

October 3-4, 2003 Los Angeles, California
2-day Procovery Training Conference, “Rethinking Mental Illness: The Power of Procovery,” co-sponsored by the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and hosted by the USC School of Policy, Planning and Development.

October 24, 2002   Osage Beach, Missouri MOAPRS
Keynote Speaker: Rethinking Mental Illness: The Power of the Procovery
Missouri Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services Annual Conference
Sponsored by Missouri Department of Mental Health, City of St. Louis Mental Health Board, and Missouri Institute of Mental Health
Workshops:
    Understanding Procovery: The 8 Principles and Twelve Strategies
    Understanding Procovery: Rethinking the Role of Hope in Treatment
Audience: Social work, psychologists, mental health professionals, consumers, family members. CEUs awarded.

July 25, 2002  Madison Wisconsin
Blue Ribbon Commission Implementation Committee, MH/AODA Redesign Advisory Committee, State of Wisconsin
Next Steps: Implementing the Concept of Recovery in Wisconsin’s Mental Health System

July 22-23, 2002  Chippewa Fall, Wisconsin
Grassroots Empowerment Program: Procovery Leadership Training
2 Day Training: Building Procovery Program Leadership— Starting and Facilitating Procovery Circles

June 1, 2002  St. Louis, Missouri NAMI
Keynote Speaker:  Rethinking Mental Illness: The Power of Procovery
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Annual Conference
Workshop: Building Procovery Leadership: Spirituality and Procovery Circles
Audience: Family members, practitioners, consumers

April 25, 2002  Charlotte, North Carolina
United Methodist Association
Workshop: Mental Illness, Faith Communities and Procovery Program

October 10-11, 2001   Milwaukee Wisconsin
9 events/2-days of Procovery Trainings
Sponsored by Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Psychiatry, Marquette University Social Work Program and an unrestricted educational grant from Abbott Pharmaceuticals
The Power of the Procovery Program in Healing Mental Illness, Grand Rounds for Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Clinical Providers
Introduction to the Procovery Program in-service trainings for over 500 front-line staff, CEUs awarded
Procovery and Partnering in-service, CEUs awarded
Procovery and Spirituality workshop for clergy and lay leaders
Building Procovery Leadership: 2 consumer leadership workshops
Public forum at Marquette University

May 9-11, 2001  Rochester, Minnesota
Minnesota Annual Community Support Program Conference
Workshop: Power of the Procovery Program and Individual Action
Audience: Nurses, social workers, administrators, CEUs awarded

April 10, 2001  NAMI Madison, Wisconsin
Keynote Speaker:  Rethinking Mental Illness: The Power of Procovery
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Dane County Annual Awards Banquet
Audience: Family members, practitioners, consumers

November 18, 2000 Dells,Wisconsin
Keynote Speaker: The Power of Procovery
Wisconsin Statewide Mental Health Consumer Conference
Workshops:      Understanding Procovery
                           Procovery and Building Hope

September 7-8, 2000   St. Louis, Missouri
Midwest Meeting on Self-Determination for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Training: Understanding the Intersection of Procovery and Self-Determination
Audience: Administrators

September 21-23, 1999  Aurora, Nebraska
Keynote Speaker: Moving Toward Procovery
Nebraska Statewide Mental Health Consumer Conference
2 Workshops: Procovery Continued

April 29, 1997  Madison, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Extension
Instructor: Clients and Professionals as Allies: Partnering and Procovery
Co-instructors Ronald Diamond, M.D., Marion Becker, Ph.D., R.N.
Audience: Front-line professionals, CEUs awarded

April 11, 1997 Madison, Wisconsin
Keynote Speaker:   Procovery and the Power of the Individual
Wisconsin Annual Community Support Program Conference

November 11, 1996  Madison, Wisconsin
Mental Health Coalition of Dane County and Mendota Mental Health Institute
Procovery and Partnering: Opportunities in Mental Health Collaboration
Co-instructors: Randy Stratt, J.D., David LeCount, Adult Mental Health Coordinator Dane County Human Services Department
Audience: Consumers, family members, practitioners, administrators (CEUs awarded)

October 22-25, 1996   NYAPRS  Monticello, New York
Keynote speaker:  Beyond The Day Room
New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services Annual Conference
Workshop: Procovery and Partnering: Opportunities in Mental Health Collaboration
Co-instructor: Randy Stratt, J.D.
Audience: Consumers, family members, practitioners, administrators (CEUs awarded)

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Speaking and Training Guidelines and Speaking Engagement Form

We want to accommodate as many of the speaking and training requests we receive as possible, as they form a cornerstone of our mission to spread the word about Procovery.  We prioritize requests based on how extensively they aid our effort to spread the word.

If you are interested in keynotes or training(s) for your community or organization, please email to us at support@procovery.com or contact us by phone 323-934-4800, fax 323-927-1597 or email with as much advance notice as possible, and let us know the size and nature of the audience and event.  

Click here for a simple Procovery Program Speaking Engagement Request Form in Microsoft Word format.

Please note these following general guidelines:

1.      Professional Fees:  Contact us for details.

2.      Travel: If travel is required, Sponsor will pay for reasonable lodging, food and transportation expenses.

a.       Lodging and food:  Sponsor will obtain discounted government or other special lodging rates where appropriate and available.  Food expenses will be in accordance with any reasonable written Sponsor policies provided at least 30 days in advance.

b.      Transportation: Reasonable transportation expenses include air fare, rental car and other ground transportation, and parking.  Transportation schedules will be arranged by and at the discretion of Trainer(s). Air travel will generally be scheduled to arrive the day before and depart the day after Presentation(s) and will be non-stop if available. Sponsor can select either a mutually agreeable Fixed Transportation Budget (no documentation required) or can agree to pay all Reasonable and Documented Transportation Expenses (fares will be booked for coach travel on a non-refundable basis at least 21 days in advance of departure, and Trainer will submit documentation at time of expense reimbursement request).

3.      Payment: All fees will be paid within 30 days of receipt of invoice.

4.      Handouts: At Sponsor’s choice, handouts may be copied by Sponsor or Sponsor may reimburse us for doing so. If Sponsor is copying handouts, they will be provided in electronic form at least 14 days in advance of Presentation.  Please note: Copyright permission is given to copy handouts for this purpose only.  Any further reproductions or distribution must have our specific prior written (including electronic) approval.

5.      Procovery Training Materials (see www.procovery.com Resource Center) will be made available to attendees at the Event by Sponsor, either by pre-purchase or by sale at the Event. If Sponsor sells to Attendees, (a) Sponsor agrees to make the materials available at all times during Event hours, and (b) Sponsor will designate a point person to receive materials and handle sales and collection of funds, and properly box and ship any unsold materials back to us.  Note: Shipping both ways is at our expense.

6.      Publicity and Marketing Materials:  We will provide background materials to aid Sponsor in development of publicity and marketing materials.  Descriptions of the  Trainer(s) and the Presentation in any publicity and marketing materials must be approved by us prior to publication.

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