🔤 Description

Join us for this engaging masterclass (1-hour, online) filled with fresh ideas and practical tools to reduce stigma and use proven tools from the field of behavioral health to unlock new possibilities for people who stutter.

We’ll unpack the practice of Honest, Open, Proud (HOP) – an approach developed by Dr. Patrick Corrigan, a true expert in this field. HOP is a proven tool to help us make wise choices about sharing our stories, especially when it comes to mental health and recovery. And here’s the twist: we’ll show you how HOP isn’t limited to mental health – it can be adapted and applied for people who stutter. Michael Sugarman will walk us through the model and applications for people who stutter.

Whether you’re a speech therapist, someone who stutters, or just curious, this masterclass is your chance to explore valuable tools from the field of behavioral health. We have a lot to learn together.

Are you ready to acquire new tools to unlock the next steps in your stuttering journey?

Register today and we’ll send additional resources (PDF’s) to get started today.

*SLPs receive a certificate of attendance eligible for 1CMH credit

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🎯 Agenda

1. Considering the Pros and Cons of Disclosing

   1. My identity and mental illness.  

   2. Secrets are part of life.

   3. Weighing the costs and benefits of disclosing.

2. Different Ways to Disclose

   1. Five ways to come out.

   2. Testing a person for disclosure.  

   3. How might others respond to my disclosure?

3. Telling Your Story

   1. How to tell a personally meaningful story.  

   2. Who are peers that might help me with coming out?  

   3. Review how telling my story felt. 

4. Putting it all together to move forward

💪 Attendee Take-Aways

• Develop your understanding of “disclosure,” appreciating both the benefits and liabilities

• Discover multiple ways to “disclose”

• Identify readiness (or unreadiness) for “disclosure”

• Beginning to draft and craft a personal story to fit the person and place

🎤 Presenter

Michael Sugarman has been an activist in the stuttering and disability communities since the 1970s. He was co-founder and former Executive Director of the National Stuttering Project and former chair of the International Stuttering Association. Michael wrote for academic journals and promoted people-first language and stuttering awareness in “It’s Ok to Stutter” (Journal of Fluency Disorders) and the Perniciousness of Labels (Transactional Analysis Journal). As a medical social worker, he recently updated his children’s book, The Adventures of Phil and Dotty. Michael currently co-facilitates a peer support group and is co-writing an article on peer and professional facilitation of support groups, emphasizing mindfulness communication, self-care skills, and resilience.