Our peer support is based on the Intentional Peer Support (IPS) model and is mostly one on one peer support. We also run a women’s group on a Wednesday afternoon.
Peer support relationships are mutual and reciprocal relationships, where staff walk alongside people during their journey and experience with mental distress. It is based on three principles:
Hope vs Fear
Learning vs Helping
Relationship vs Individual
These are embodied in 4 tasks:
Connection: This is about when someone else “gets it”. The sharing of experiences to learn and explore possible options.
Worldview: Helping each other to understand how we’ve come to know what we know. Instead of asking ‘what’s wrong,’ we ask ‘what happened?’
Mutuality: Redefining help as a co-learning and growing process.
Moving Towards: what we want, vision and action.
To find out more call us on 0800 364 462 or find other ways to contact us.
Our code of ethics
We operate under a code of ethics- this guides our responses and choices: