Transforming Scotland’s Mental Health System: From Insight to Action – 26 May
A one-hour webinar exploring what it takes to turn Scotland’s mental health ambitions into meaningful system-wide change.
This Peer Connects webinar takes place on Tuesday 26 May from 10:00 -11:00. Register your place (takes you to our Eventbrite channel).
Transforming Scotland’s Mental Health System: From Insight to Action is for Peer Workers, Service Leads, Managers, Policy-Makers, Commissioners, and Lived Experience Leaders interested in exploring what it will take to embed peer support and lived experience at the heart of mental health services.
This webinar builds on learning from our Edinburgh in-person event and pulls in national insights and expert perspectives to support what happens next. Whether you joined us in Edinburgh or not, this is another opportunity to deepen your understanding, connect ideas to practice, and be part of shaping real change.
You’ll hear powerful filmed contributions from Julie Repper, one of the UK’s leading voices on peer support and lived experience leadership. Drawing on Imroc’s work in England, Julie shares lessons from scaling a recovery-focused workforce and reflects on what this could mean for Scotland.
We’ll also welcome Louise Christie, Director of Scottish Recovery Network, who will unpack standout moments from Julie’s input and talk about what they mean in practice. She’ll connect these insights to Scotland’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Delivery Plan and the Creating Hope Together Suicide Prevention Action Plan – key policy frameworks shaping how change happens across services.
Plus, we’ll introduce our new 10-year strategy, Catalysts for Change, setting out how lived experience and peer support can drive long-term transformation of our mental health system.
Online security and wellbeing
We will be using the video conferencing tool Zoom for this event. Your online security and wellbeing are our utmost priority. We will send out a secure Zoom link ahead of the event. If you want to call into this event on your phone (audio access) we can accommodate this.
Accessibility
We support the ALLIANCE More than Words campaign. If you have any accessibility or communication needs that would help you take part, please let us know (to book BSL Interpreters we need two weeks’ notice).
If you have any further questions, contact 0300 323 9956 or info@scottishrecovery.netBritish Sign Language (BSL) users can contact us directly by usingContact Scotland BSL
Peer Connects programme 2026/27
Peer Connects is a programme of free learning events. Featuring guest contributors, networking opportunities, and a chance to share practice with other people passionate about peer support!
The 2026-2027 Peer Connects programme will launch during Mental Health Awareness week 12-18 May 2026. Get it straight to your in box by receiving our newsletter https://scottishrecovery.net/newsletter-signup/
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