The Scottish Recovery Network (SRN) has developed and made available materials for organisations to deliver the SRN “Peer2Peer” course online.

The “Peer2Peer” course provides an opportunity for people with lived experience of mental health problems to develop their knowledge and skills in supporting others in their recovery journey. The course may be helpful for groups, projects, organisations, or services interested in developing peer support opportunities.

The challenges of COVID-19 led SRN to adapt their resources in order to pilot delivering the course online. The pilot was successful, and the associated resources (including Facilitator Guides and Participant Workbooks) are now available for other organisations to use so they can deliver their own online “Peer2Peer” course.

The “Peer2Peer” course is experiential and highly participative and the course structure is detailed below:

Introduction to the course
Session 1 – Recovery: Introduction to CHIME and personal recovery
Session 2 – The peer relationship and peer values
Session 3 – Preparing my recovery story
Session 4 – Understanding impacts on mental health including social determinants of health, adversity, trauma and stigma
Session 5 – Power, strengths and sharing our experiences
Session 6 – Sharing our recovery stories
Session 7 – Communication skills
Session 8 – Using our experiences in the peer relationship
Session 9 – Resourcing ourselves peer support toolkit

For further information about the course, or to view and download all of the resources, please visit the SRN pages: