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ought to be and could be.” ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Intentional Peer Support (IPS) is a method for creating personal and social change by focusing on what we want to create rather than giving up all of our valuable energy to something we don’t want. It was developed by Shery Mead and she articulated the following principles of this approach: IPS doesn’t start with the assumption of a problem. Each of us pays attention to how we have learned to make sense of our experiences, then uses the relationship to create new ways of seeing, thinking, and doing. IPS promotes a way of relating. Instead of asking “What’s wrong?” we
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