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Peering into Practice
Welcome
Peering into Practice
Welcome
Welcome
Veteran Alternatives to Suicide Group is a peer-based response to supporting Veterans who have made suicidal attempts or who have experienced suicidal thoughts. 

Veterans Alt2Su groups are organised and facilitated by Veterans for Veterans with pers
The weekly Practice in Community is centred on the four tasks of Intentional Peer Support—connection, worldview, mutuality and moving toward. 

In my experience, these four tasks are the bones of IPS, and our collective experiences, reflections
There is a deep time to Slow Story that requires us to widen across our experiences of past, present and becoming. This is a way of holding time-space together without narrowing to exhaustion any specific inquiry. 

When we ‘hold time-space&rsq
In the dance between old postures & new shapes… 

Old postures—those conditioned tendencies or responses that no longer serve you. 

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New shapes—those ways of being and doing you’re practising embodying. 

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Veteran Alternatives to Suicide Group is a peer-based response to supporting Veterans who have made suicidal attempts or who have experienced suicidal thoughts. 

Veterans Alt2Su groups are organised and facilitated by Veterans for Veterans with pers
Your lived experience and practice are authentically linked — connected through a songline that maps the storied places within you. 

You already embody the wisdom for this work; within the experiences that have shaped you, the stories you carr
Do you remember that place? The place at the centre of your practice. That wild, untamed place of origin that came before all the structures, scopes of practice, and frameworks. 
 
That place of emergence, that once stirred and awakened gave rise to
A worldview is the fundamental set of assumptions about who we are and what life is. It’s our presupposed, embodied, often taken for granted stance towards ourselves, other selves, and life itself. As it encompasses so much more than how we see
“Story lives in Country, Country moves Slowly”
— Blue Mountains, Australia