Making Recovery Real

Helen, a Peer Support Worker with NHS Borders Adult Community Mental Health Service, shares her experiences of the role.

"A Peer Worker is a tangible, living, walking, breathing symbol of hope simply because of the words Lived Experience."

We're delighted to present this bonus piece of audio where Peer Worker Helen reads her poem Two Rooms in a Mansion.

Premiered at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, Living With Trauma is now available for everyone to watch.

NHS Lanarkshire Personality Disorder Working Group are taking a different approach to developing mental health support. Moving from consultation to co-design is a partnership project that deliberately moves away from traditional consultation. NHS Lanarkshire and Scottish Recovery Network brought people with lived experience, local organisations and NHS workers together to co-design a new service. In this podcast we hear from Dom, Brian, Sian and Thomas who were involved in the project and from Liz and Lucy from NHS Lanarkshire.

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The Let's do Peer Group Facilitation resource has launched! It includes four free practical guides for anyone interested in running a peer support group.  In this podcast we hear from Peer Facilitators and co-creators of the guides Emma, Graham, Heidi, Hayley and Jeanette. Tune in as they share insights from the development process and their top tips for running a peer support group!

With a different guest each episode the Peer Chat podcast brings you insights, ideas and inspiration from people using their lived experience to support others and develop peer approaches. 

A new conversation series from Scottish Recovery Network. With a different guest each episode these podcasts bring you insights, ideas and inspiration from people using their lived experience to support others and develop peer approaches.

A new conversation series from Scottish Recovery Network. With a different guest each episode these podcasts bring you insights, ideas and inspiration from people using their lived experience to support others and develop peer approaches.

Don't lose sight of peer support as a social movement.

This is just one of the takeaways from episode 2 of our new Peer Chat podcast. Tune in as Scottish Recovery Network's Lesley chats with Intentional Peer Support Coordinator/ Trainer Lisa Archibald about peer support and The power of 'being with'.

In this episode Andrew, Amanda and Liz chat to our Network Officer Holly about the development of this lived experience group that is feeding into the the modernisation of mental health and learning disability services in Grampian.

A new conversation series from Scottish Recovery Network. With a different guest each episode these podcasts bring you insights, ideas and inspiration from people using their lived experience to support others and develop peer approaches.

Our guest this episode is Rai Waddingham who will be sharing her experiences of participating in and facilitating peer support groups. Rai hears voices, sees visions and has a whole range of experiences many label as ‘unusual’. At times these have overwhelmed her, leading to a range of diagnoses she no longer identifies with. Having managed the London Hearing Voices Project for many years, working with people who hear voices or have unusual beliefs across youth, adult and prison settings, she’s now Chair of the English Hearing Voices Network. Rai is an independent trainer, a writer and an Open Dialogue Practitioner. She’s also studying for a PhD in Survivor Knowledge.’

Want to know more about peer support? Interested in developing peer roles and approaches? Tune in.

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Siobhan Hossack, a Project Manager at a mental health awareness and suicide prevention organisation, tells us what peer support means to her.

"Peer support was one of the main things that helped me out of this very difficult time."

“Peer Support has given me many gifts, the greatest one being it has helped me to heal my relationship with myself.”

In this podcast for the ALLIANCE Live series, we explore peer support in digital spaces and the capacity for kindness and empowerment.

Recorded on the banks of Loch Lomond, Emily tells us what peer support means to her. Emily was a participant in the pilot that took the Peer2Peer course online. *This audio references suicide.

"The peer support ethos of empowering people in recovery has helped me accomplish a lot"

Join Robyn, Steve, Fiona, Holly and Lesley as they chat about their experiences as facilitators and participants involved in the pilot of the online Peer2Peer course.

"It’s just been such a transformative experience. Like, this year I will be helping to facilitate a Peer2Peer course at a mental health charity in Glasgow and I’m super excited about it". - Robyn

This podcast is part of new set of resources sharing insights and inspiration from people across Scotland on staying well during and after the COVID-19 lockdown.