Making Recovery Real

Exploring the Making Peer Practical Development Programme from a participants perspective. Scottish Recovery Network Projects Coordinator Eilidh Hollow chats to Iona McCann, Associate Director (Communities) at Art in HealthCare Click this link for the accompanying transcript

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." Read along with the transcript for Helen's story

We're delighted to present this bonus piece of audio where Peer Worker Helen reads her poem Two Rooms in a Mansion. Helen recently shared her story of being a Peer Worker in an Adult Community Mental Health Service.

Premiered at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, Living With Trauma is now available for everyone to watch. This powerful short film uses storytelling, photography and artwork to explore different experiences of living with trauma. It was created by Chloe, Laura, Martin, Holly and Ruth who make up the With Us, For Us Lived Experience Project Group in collaboration with Scottish Recovery Netw...

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....

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! Podcast...

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.  In episode 4 of Peer Chat we welcome our podcast guest Vikki Price. Vikki is Co-founder of Peer Hub - Tune as Vikki speaks to Scottish Recovery Network's Mark about some of the key considerations when deve...

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. Chatting to Scottish Recovery Network’s Lesley Smith, our guest for episode three of  Peer Chat With is Callum Ross. Callum is a Habitus Collective partner...

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 Re...

Grampian Public Empowerment Group are working to create change around traditional consultation approaches, to develop more meaningful lived experience involvement through co-production. 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 serv...

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 vis...

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." A written version of this podcast is available to read on the Scottish Recovery Network website.

To celebrate Co-production Week Scotland, our Director Louise Christie speaks to Ruth Brown, Manager for Mental Health and Substance Use at Dundee Volunteer and Voluntary Action (DVVA) , as they reflect on the positive impact of Making Recovery Real in Dundee. Launched in 2015 this initiative continues to use a co-production approach that puts people with lived experience at the centre of dec...

“Peer Support has given me many gifts, the greatest one being it has helped me to heal my relationship with myself.” Lauren, a Peer Support Worker with Bipolar Scotland , tells us what peer support means to her. A written version of this podcast is available to read on the Scottish Recovery Network website.

Trish O'Brien, Mental Health Network Peer Support Coordinator with Fife Voluntary Action , tells us what peer support means to her. "Just hearing that someone else was going through something similar to me helped me be more kind to myself." You can access a written version of this contribution on the Scottish Recovery Network website

In this podcast for the ALLIANCE Live series, we explore peer support in digital spaces and the capacity for kindness and empowerment. Our Network Officer, Lesley Smith, is joined by two participants involved in our Meaningful connections research project: Hayley Chandler, Development Worker for Edinburgh's Peer Community , and Emma Morrow, Peer Support Lead at Bipolar Scotland . During the conver...

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" The written version of this contribution is available at www.scottishrecovery.net Photograph by Arianna Petrovan.

As part of our Peer support and me series, Joanna, a Development Worker with HUG / SPIRIT Advocacy explores the themes of peer and collective advocacy. A written version of this episode is available on the Scottish Recovery Network website If you would be interested in contributing to our Peer support and me series contact Christine Muir, Senior Communications Officer: christine.muir@scottishrecov...

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 Peer2Peer is a free-to-access course...

We were delighted to be asked to be part of the ALLIANCE Live series. This 30 minute podcast, using audio from the webinar, explores how the Making Recovery Real approach offers a different way of working together. It does not replace the traditional NHS treatment route but invites formal services to walk alongside local people, organisations and initiatives to design and deliver sustainable menta...

In this short podcast, Hollie, a Peer Worker with Penumbra , tells us what peer support means to her. Co-produced with Hollie and Mind Waves . #TheFutureIsPeer If you would be interested in contributing to our Peer support and me series contact Christine Muir, Senior Communications Officer on:  christine.muir@scottishrecovery.net

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. Read the transcript of this podcast | View the Staying connected animation | Read the Staying connected report Find lots of mental health recovery ideas and resources on the Scottish Recovery Network website This podcast was produced in c...