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Introduction
This session will introduce students to the course and through the use of exercises promote general discussion encouraging the students to begin to get to know each other. The session will cover confidentiality, participation, commitment and a general overview of the course. 
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Introduction
About the Tutor
About the 12 Modules
Assessment
Glossary
About the Peer2Peer Project
Peer Support and BPD
Activity: Dare to Dream
Activity: Hopes and Fears
Activity: My Positive Learning Environment
Reflection
What is Recovery?
The aim of this session is to explore the development of the recovery approach in mental health and to examine key concepts in recovery and a range of factors that support recovery.
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Learning Outcomes
History of Recovery Approaches
What is Mental Health Recovery?
What Helps Recovery?
Activity 1: What is Mental Health Recovery?
Activity 2: My Recovery Experience
Personal Recovery
The aim of this session is to explore personal experience of mental health problems and recovery and consider how the key concepts and factors supporting recovery (covered in session 2) have impacted on your own story of recovery.
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Learning Outcomes
Sharing of Personal Experience
Activity 1: Personal Story of Recovery
Thinking About My Recovery
Activity 2: Your Recovery Story
What is Peer Support?
Now that we have been introduced to recovery characteristics and developed an understanding of the things that can help and hinder that process, we are going to consider the role the role of peer support in more detail. Firstly, we will examine what we mean by a peer and we will then go on to consider the relationship between peer support and recovery.
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Learning Outcomes
Defining and explaining peer support
Peer support in mental health
The contribution of peer support to recovery
Mutuality and empowerment in peer support
Activity 1: Mutuality and empowerment
Activity 2: The contribution of peer support to recovery
The Peer Relationship
In this session we will examine in more detail the processes and practices of establishing peer relationships. We will build on our earlier learning about the role of mutuality and empowerment in peer relationships. There will be a focus on issues of power, choice and control in peer relationships.
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Learning Outcomes
Revisiting worldview
Establishing positive peer relationships
Power, choice and control in the peer relationship
Power positions
Activity 1: Making a Connection
Activity 2: Power in the peer relationship role
Review and Evaluation
The aim of this session is to give candidates the opportunity to reflect on learning to date; provide support and feedback on the assessment task and to review the content to date. The first assessment task is a written assignment in essay format where students consider their personal recovery story in relation to the recovery approach and the role of peer support.
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Learning Outcomes
Use of Language and Communications
As peer supporters, the language we use and how we communicate are key to building good connections with the people we are supporting. This session will focus on how we use the language of recovery and our wider communication skills in the peer relationship. The language of recovery is designed to bring out the strengths and abilities of those in recovery. The aim of this session is to introduce candidates to elements of effective communication, including verbal and non-verbal communication, active listening and the use of recovery language, and to enable them to use these to foster an effective peer support relationship.
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Learning Outcomes
Use of Language
Power of language
Effective communication
Effective communications skills
Non-Verbal Communication
Written communication
Activity 1: Connecting Up
Activity 2: Recovery Language
Activity 3: What makes good communication?
Using Your Experiences Effectively
One of the most effective ways to explain recovery to others is by people sharing their experiences. It brings to life the reality of recovery. This session builds on previous learning to enable peer supporters to develop their skills and experience in sharing their experiences in ways that are helpful. This sharing is often described as intentional.
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Learning Outcomes
Lived Experience
What do you share?
Activity 1: My Role Models
The Peer Values Framework
Demonstrating Peer Values
Sharing our Experiences
Surviving and Thriving
The aim of this session is to look at approaches to working with people which focus on their strengths and capabilities and on building resilience. This will include examining the ways in which strengths based approach might validate and reframe experience and how it uses role modelling and hope to help individuals build resilience. Strengths based approaches are at the heart of peer support practice.
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Learning Outcomes
Resilience
Strengths-based approaches
Peer support worker role
What is Trauma?
What impact does trauma have?
Trauma and the peer support relationship
Activity 1: Strengths in Mental Health
Activity 2: The Role of Resilience
Activity 3: Thoughts, feelings and behaviours around trauma
Trauma Informed Peer Support – Creating Stories
Positive Risk Taking and Boundaries
The aim of this session is to examine the implications of formalised peer support, encouraging students to examine the related concepts of boundaries, role tension and working with risk. The session will introduce the concept of positive risk taking and the approaches that can be used to help in this process. This will include examining the balance between risk and responsibility in the peer relationship. As part of this, students will deal with the difficult topics of trauma, suicidality and risk.
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Learning Outcomes
Boundaries in Formalised Peer Support
Dual roles and relationships
Confidentiality in peer relationships
Supervision
Risk and perceptions of risk
Trauma, suicidality and risk
Activity 1: Clarity in Boundaries
Activity 2: Working with Risk
Activity 3: Risks and Ethics
Review and Evaluation
The aim of this session is to give candidates time to review and evaluate the course and their experience of it, and to finish off any outstanding work. it is an opportunity to reflect on learning, discuss experiences and discuss the final assignment.
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Learning Outcomes
Assessment and Certificate
Thank You and Feedback
Self-help, Self-management and Self-care
The aim of this session is to examine the use of a range of self-management tools and approaches and to consider aspects of safe practice and self-care for peer supporters.
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Learning Outcomes
Taking Control
Self-help groups
Self-management tools
Common characteristics of self-help and self- management
How self-help and self-management relate to recovery
Self-care and self-awareness
Self-care and relationships
Self-care within organisations and teams
Activity 1: What Helps Me
Activity 2: Barriers to Self-Management
Activity 3: Self-care in peer relationships
Activity 4: Self-awareness and self-care in practice
Useful Resources
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Lesson: Activity 2: Recovery Language
Overview
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About Lesson

Recovery language is about how we use language in a way that promotes recovery and is based on ordinary language that is descriptive and makes sense to everyone.

 

This exercise is divided into two parts. The first part focusses on deficit and negative language. The second part moves into exploring how using language differently can promote hope and see the strengths and potential in people.

 

Part One: Deficit and negative language

 

The following words have been used to describe someone. Read over the list of words, and think of the immediate impression you get of the person being described. Don’t spend too long thinking about the words. 

 

  • Decompensate
  • Chronic
  • Patient
  • Impaired
  • Unmotivated
  • Cutter (self-harm)
  • Low functioning
  • Challenging
  • Damaged
  • Schizophrenic
  • Borderline
  • Grandiose
  • Weird
  • Self-obsessed
  • Revolving door
  • Manipulative

 

You may find that you have heard these words used in connection with other people, or they may be words you or others have used to describe yourself. 

 

Words and how we use language are critically important in the mental health field where discrimination, disempowerment and loss of self-esteem can cause people to battle with self-stigma.

 

Part two: Recovery Language

 

Consider these questions.

 

  • What does recovery language mean to you?
  • Why is it important to use recovery language?

 

Make some quick notes – identify key elements of recovery language with a focus on hope, strengths and empowerment. We have prepared this list: 

 

Recovery language:

• Assists a person’s recovery
• Promotes hope
• Treats people as individuals
• Treats people as equals/ addresses power imbalance
• Provides a positive sense of self/identity
• It can be empowering
• Promotes positive feelings about oneself and future
• Reduces labelling and stigma and categorising
• Understandable
• Allows individuals to use their own words to share their own experiences
• It can reduce feelings of worthlessness and assist building self confidence
• Promotes choice and self-advocacy
• Promotes a person’s strengths and skill

 

Thinking about how peer supporters could use language differently, think about how the original statements might impact on hope, mutuality and empowerment. Develop alternative statements that convey a similar meaning, but use recovery focused language. 

 

Here are some examples: 

 

Alternative Language

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Lesson List
Introduction
This session will introduce students to the course and through the use of exercises promote general discussion encouraging the students to begin to get to know each other. The session will cover confidentiality, participation, commitment and a general overview of the course. 
0/11
Introduction
About the Tutor
About the 12 Modules
Assessment
Glossary
About the Peer2Peer Project
Peer Support and BPD
Activity: Dare to Dream
Activity: Hopes and Fears
Activity: My Positive Learning Environment
Reflection
What is Recovery?
The aim of this session is to explore the development of the recovery approach in mental health and to examine key concepts in recovery and a range of factors that support recovery.
0/6
Learning Outcomes
History of Recovery Approaches
What is Mental Health Recovery?
What Helps Recovery?
Activity 1: What is Mental Health Recovery?
Activity 2: My Recovery Experience
Personal Recovery
The aim of this session is to explore personal experience of mental health problems and recovery and consider how the key concepts and factors supporting recovery (covered in session 2) have impacted on your own story of recovery.
0/5
Learning Outcomes
Sharing of Personal Experience
Activity 1: Personal Story of Recovery
Thinking About My Recovery
Activity 2: Your Recovery Story
What is Peer Support?
Now that we have been introduced to recovery characteristics and developed an understanding of the things that can help and hinder that process, we are going to consider the role the role of peer support in more detail. Firstly, we will examine what we mean by a peer and we will then go on to consider the relationship between peer support and recovery.
0/7
Learning Outcomes
Defining and explaining peer support
Peer support in mental health
The contribution of peer support to recovery
Mutuality and empowerment in peer support
Activity 1: Mutuality and empowerment
Activity 2: The contribution of peer support to recovery
The Peer Relationship
In this session we will examine in more detail the processes and practices of establishing peer relationships. We will build on our earlier learning about the role of mutuality and empowerment in peer relationships. There will be a focus on issues of power, choice and control in peer relationships.
0/7
Learning Outcomes
Revisiting worldview
Establishing positive peer relationships
Power, choice and control in the peer relationship
Power positions
Activity 1: Making a Connection
Activity 2: Power in the peer relationship role
Review and Evaluation
The aim of this session is to give candidates the opportunity to reflect on learning to date; provide support and feedback on the assessment task and to review the content to date. The first assessment task is a written assignment in essay format where students consider their personal recovery story in relation to the recovery approach and the role of peer support.
0/1
Learning Outcomes
Use of Language and Communications
As peer supporters, the language we use and how we communicate are key to building good connections with the people we are supporting. This session will focus on how we use the language of recovery and our wider communication skills in the peer relationship. The language of recovery is designed to bring out the strengths and abilities of those in recovery. The aim of this session is to introduce candidates to elements of effective communication, including verbal and non-verbal communication, active listening and the use of recovery language, and to enable them to use these to foster an effective peer support relationship.
0/10
Learning Outcomes
Use of Language
Power of language
Effective communication
Effective communications skills
Non-Verbal Communication
Written communication
Activity 1: Connecting Up
Activity 2: Recovery Language
Activity 3: What makes good communication?
Using Your Experiences Effectively
One of the most effective ways to explain recovery to others is by people sharing their experiences. It brings to life the reality of recovery. This session builds on previous learning to enable peer supporters to develop their skills and experience in sharing their experiences in ways that are helpful. This sharing is often described as intentional.
0/7
Learning Outcomes
Lived Experience
What do you share?
Activity 1: My Role Models
The Peer Values Framework
Demonstrating Peer Values
Sharing our Experiences
Surviving and Thriving
The aim of this session is to look at approaches to working with people which focus on their strengths and capabilities and on building resilience. This will include examining the ways in which strengths based approach might validate and reframe experience and how it uses role modelling and hope to help individuals build resilience. Strengths based approaches are at the heart of peer support practice.
0/11
Learning Outcomes
Resilience
Strengths-based approaches
Peer support worker role
What is Trauma?
What impact does trauma have?
Trauma and the peer support relationship
Activity 1: Strengths in Mental Health
Activity 2: The Role of Resilience
Activity 3: Thoughts, feelings and behaviours around trauma
Trauma Informed Peer Support – Creating Stories
Positive Risk Taking and Boundaries
The aim of this session is to examine the implications of formalised peer support, encouraging students to examine the related concepts of boundaries, role tension and working with risk. The session will introduce the concept of positive risk taking and the approaches that can be used to help in this process. This will include examining the balance between risk and responsibility in the peer relationship. As part of this, students will deal with the difficult topics of trauma, suicidality and risk.
0/10
Learning Outcomes
Boundaries in Formalised Peer Support
Dual roles and relationships
Confidentiality in peer relationships
Supervision
Risk and perceptions of risk
Trauma, suicidality and risk
Activity 1: Clarity in Boundaries
Activity 2: Working with Risk
Activity 3: Risks and Ethics
Review and Evaluation
The aim of this session is to give candidates time to review and evaluate the course and their experience of it, and to finish off any outstanding work. it is an opportunity to reflect on learning, discuss experiences and discuss the final assignment.
0/3
Learning Outcomes
Assessment and Certificate
Thank You and Feedback
Self-help, Self-management and Self-care
The aim of this session is to examine the use of a range of self-management tools and approaches and to consider aspects of safe practice and self-care for peer supporters.
0/13
Learning Outcomes
Taking Control
Self-help groups
Self-management tools
Common characteristics of self-help and self- management
How self-help and self-management relate to recovery
Self-care and self-awareness
Self-care and relationships
Self-care within organisations and teams
Activity 1: What Helps Me
Activity 2: Barriers to Self-Management
Activity 3: Self-care in peer relationships
Activity 4: Self-awareness and self-care in practice
Useful Resources
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