Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Overview
Program Overview
WRAP is two day online workshop led by experienced facilitators and people living with spinal cord injury, family members and carers. During the program you will discover the five key concepts, and explore the wellness toolbox and six wellness plans.
The FIVE KEY CONCEPTS are the foundations of WRAP and include:
We use these key concepts and our wellness toolbox to create our wellness plans and build our WRAP.
Wellness Toolbox
A list of skills and strategies for keeping ourselves well and for feeling better if we don’t feel well. Wellness tools are simple, safe, accessible, and often free things we can do to recover or maintain our wellness. They give us hope and help us feel connected to others and to ourselves.
WELLNESS PLANS
- Part 1: Daily Wellness Plan
The daily plan is a simple structure for putting wellness tools into action for daily living. This includes a description of how we look and feel when we’re well, things we need to do every day to stay well, and things we may want to do on a particular day to maintain wellness and make our life how we want it to be.
- Part 2: Triggers
These are events, circumstances, or situations that may lead to uncomfortable feelings or behaviours. Some people prefer the words “stressors” or “red flags.” Whatever you call these occurrences, when they happen they cause a normal reaction to the events in our lives—but if we don’t respond to them and deal with them, they can make us feel worse and disrupt our wellness.
- Part 3: Early Warning Signs
These are subtle signs of change that indicate we may need to take some action to keep our situation from worsening. Whereas stressors are things that happen around us, early warning signs are things we notice about ourselves or our environment that tell us we need to be proactive to protect or restore wellness.
- Part 4: Signs That Things Are Breaking Down
When things are breaking down, we’re feeling worse and worse despite our best efforts. This is the time to take immediate action to prevent a crisis.
- Part 5: Crisis Plan
If a crisis happens, it’s not your fault. The crisis plan helps you stay in control even when things feel out of control by making advance plans for yourself and for your supporters for what you need during this time.
- Part 6: Post-Crisis Plan
The post-crisis plan helps us navigate the period after a crisis so we can return to our daily plan on the timetable and in the way that makes sense for us. It also helps us evaluate our WRAP to identify new tools or strategies we want to use based on what we learned about ourselves through the crisis we experienced.
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