The values in the framework are demonstrated in practice through the following behaviours:

• Intentionally sharing experiences and stories of hope and recovery.
• Accepting peers where they are at, avoiding judgement and interpretation.
• Demonstrating and modelling relationship skills through our attitudes, interactions, behaviours and use of language.
• Being alongside and partnering peers – not doing to or for.
• Help peers explore and broaden personal identity and worldview.
• Encourage responsibility for self care, wellness and recovery.
• Take a strengths based approach focusing on hopes, aspirationsand self defined goals.
• Encourage peers to challenge themselves and to mitigate for potention risks.
• Encourage the reframing of setbacks and help identify ways to learn from them.
• Encourage peers to make informed choices and seek out relevant information to enable this.
• Support peers to explore meaning and purpose in their lives.
• Work with boundaries that are responsive and flexible being mindful of organisational policies.
• Acknowledge and discuss issues relating to power.
• Respect rights, dignity, privacy and confidentiality.
• Respect diversity and have cultural awareness.
• Maintaining and building on skills and learning whilst keeping current with emerging knowledge on peer support and recovery.
• Be a reflective practitioner and learn from experience.
• Help people build social supports and make community connections.
• Use supervision to support and enable you to develop your understanding and practice.
• Seek out opportunities to meet with other peer workers to share learning.
• Take personal responsibility for your own self development, self care, wellness and recovery.
• See and use the community as a resource.
• To be a role model and champion recovery.
• Ensure the values of peer working are at the centre of all our interactions.
• Advocate for peers to make their own decisions in matters affecting their lives.
• Be an active member of the team and contribute in a positive and solution focused manner.
• Constructively challenge nonrecovery focused, stigmatising and discriminatory practices.