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Peer values

Peer Support

Our peer values framework was developed with peer workers to improve understanding of peer support.

Gathering and preparing to share lived experiences of mental health and suicide

Peer Support, Tools

Guide 1 is for people preparing to share their lived experiences (individuals). Guide 2 is for people who support people to share their lived experiences (organisations and services).

Different ways to share experiences. Audio, paper and pencil, video camera and mobile phone.

Shaping Recovery in Scotland: How we’re making a difference

This Report and Executive Summary are the culmination of nearly two years of work with Habitus Collective. They used a variety of methods to evaluate our work to better understand its impacts.

Shaping Recovery in Scotland

Let’s do Peer Support: Bump, Birth & Beyond

Animation, Film, Peer Support, Tools, Transcript

Full of real life insight and experiences this practical guide is packed with top tips, case studies and handy templates to help you plan and deliver perinatal peer support activities.

Two women building with four giant jigsaw pieces.

With Us, For Us

Animation, Poster, Report, Tools

With Us, For Us provided an opportunity for people living with trauma and/or who have been given a diagnosis of personality disorder to share their experiences of services and their ideas for improvement.

Some members of the Lived Experience Project Group standing next to the With Us, For, Us conference poster.

Your Experience Counts

Report

To learn from the experiences of people affected by self-harm we held a series of Recovery Conversation Cafés.

Four people sitting around a table chatting.

Learning from the Peer2Peer pilot

Peer Support, Report

An independent evaluation of the Peer2Peer Development Programme by Ruthless Research.

Two people building with four giant jigsaw pieces.

With Us, For Us

Poster

In partnership with VOX Scotland, a project to ensure lived experience engagement in Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s Personality Disorder Programme.

Icons of 3 people sharing ideas.

Creating Positive Change

Report

Habitus Collective have been speaking with partners of Scottish Recovery Network and the wider mental health recovery community to understand the organisation's impact.

Text says "Evidence of Change".

Moving from consultation to co-design

Film, Podcast, Report

NHS Lanarkshire Personality Disorder Working Group, Scottish Recovery Network and people with lived experience collaborated to co-design a new service for people with complex mental health problems.

3 icons of people sharing ideas in different ways.