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 Network and Voices of Experience (VOX). The group came together to inform the design of services for people living with trauma and/or who have been given a diagnosis of personality disorder. As a peer group they have found their voice and want to share their perspectives and experiences more widely. A photobook accompanies this film and can be downloaded for free here https://bit.ly/PhotoBooklet You might also be interested in the With Us, For Us project and resources https://bit.ly/3NhKgpK

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. Podcast transcript http://bit.ly/3tUpm6M A filmed version of this podcast is available on our YouTube channel (BSL, subtitles). You can read the full Moving from consultation to co-design project report on the Scottish Recovery Network website https://bit.ly/3OxiKVx

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 transcript https://bit.ly/PGFAudioTranscript You can sign up for these free guides here https://bit.ly/PeerGuidesSignMeUp or find lots more resources around peer support in The Peer Recovery Hub at www.scottishrecovery.net This podcast is also available in film version (BSL and subtitles) on our YouTube channel.

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 developing peer roles. A transcript of this podcast is available on the Scottish Recovery Network website This podcast is also available in film version with BSL interpretation and subtitles on our YouTube channel Peer Chat With Vikki Price was recorded at the Developing Peer Support Roles online discussion event.

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 and International Peer Leadership facilitator. Tune in as they explore the peer support movement as a broad tent with shared core values. Find out why Callum is so passionate about peer support and discover why he advocates for a strong foundation for developing approaches and peer leadership opportunities. A transcript of this podcast is available on the Scottish Recovery Network website  This podcast is also available in film version with BSL interpretation and subtitles on our YouTube channel  Peer Chat With Callum Ross was recorded at the What makes peer support unique? online discussion event.

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'. Podcast transcript  This podcast is also available in film version with BSL interpretation and subtitles on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ScottishRecoveryNetwork Peer Chat With Lisa Archibald was recorded at the What makes peer support unique? online discussion event.

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 services in Grampian. Podcast transcript available on the Scottish Recovery Network website: https://bit.ly/WhatWeNourishWillFlourish Recorded at our Time to Engage #CoProWeekScot event.

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. More A podcast transcript is available on the Scottish Recovery Network website: www.scottishrecovery.net This podcast is also available in film version with BSL interpretation and subtitles on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ScottishRecoveryNetwork Peer Chat With Rai Waddingham was recorded at the What makes peer support unique? online discussion event.