Quakers Settlement, Whanganui

17 – 20 October 2017

Registrations close on 13 October 2017

Feedback about PeerZone

Workshop participant: If it wasn’t for PeerZone I would still be stuck and I wouldn’t be in work today.

Facilitator: PeerZone is a fantastic product. Do it. Do it. Do it!

Manager: PeerZone is a wonderful resource – it helps us incorporate peer support into our service.

What are the PeerZone workshops?

The PeerZone workshops are a series of 20 three-hour peer-led workshops for people who experience mental distress and addiction developed by Mary O’Hagan and Sara McCook Weir.

The workshops provide a fun, interactive and safe structure for participants to share their experiences, learn self-management and expand their horizons. They enable mental health and addiction services to enhance the recovery outcomes of clients as well as offer a peer practice tool to peer workers.

PeerZone runs a four-day training and provides ongoing support for peer workers to be PeerZone facilitators, who deliver the workshops to people in their service or community. Post-training support includes monthly group teleconferences, advice on demand, postage of paper promotional materials, analysis and feedback of workshop evaluations, improvements to workshops and access to our new mobile friendly website.

Since the beginning of 2013:

• PeerZone has trained and supported 250 facilitators in four countries.
• They have facilitated workshops to thousands of participants.

78% of participants have rated the workshops as excellent.

There is a good evidence that programs like PeerZone promote recovery. All the workshops are evaluated.

How does PeerZone usually work?

Agencies that employ peer workers or people with experience of mental distress or addiction in other support roles decide they want to deliver PeerZone:

• We train their employees to become PeerZone facilitators.
• They facilitate PeerZone workshops as part of their employment.
• We provide the facilitators with a website, resources, support and monthly group teleconferences.
• The agency pays PeerZone a fee.

We’re halving our fee for this facilitator intake …

We’re offering the PeerZone facilitator course, support services and first year license fee for half price – $1,500 per facilitator.

…and we’re adding new resources and workshops!

From the start of 2018 PeerZone will also offer all our facilitators a comprehensive set of resources for both their one-to-one and group work – at no extra cost.

The resources (for people with mental distress and the people who support them) cover 52 life challenges in nine life domains – mental health, physical health, self-management, using services, housing, income, work, relationships and meaning and purpose. For each of the 52 life challenges there will be:

• A short paper on what works to help manage the challenge.
• An activity sheet for people with mental distress to explore and resolve the challenge.
• Leading questions for supporters to ask about the challenge.
• A peer recovery story relating to the challenge.
• A 1.5-hour peer-led workshop exploring the challenge.

Inquiries and more info

Facilitator course: Whanganui 17 – 20 October 2017

Registrations close: Friday 13 October 2017

Website: www.peerzone.info

Email: info@peerzone.info

Phone: 04 385 4277