From Lived Experience to Professional: An Introduction to Peer Work
Join us online to learn how to turn your personal experiences into a rewarding career in peer support work!
Join us online to learn how to turn your personal experiences into a rewarding career in peer support work!
The Role of a Peer Worker: A Career Introduction
Peer Workers (also known as Lived Experience Professionals) use their personal experience of recovery and adverse personal and life challenges to offer empathy, guidance, and hope to others. This is a powerful, recognised, and essential role in the modern healthcare and community services landscape.
Join us for this informative, live online session to explore the foundational principles of the Lived Experience Profession and discover how you can become a qualified professional.
What You Will Learn
By the end of this 60-minute webinar, you will have a clear understanding of:
What Peer Work Is (and Isn't): The core values and ethical standards that define the role, and how it differs from support work, clinical therapy or social work.
Career Opportunities: Where Peer Workers are employed (hospitals, non-profits, community clinics, private practice) and the current demand for qualified professionals.
The Path to Professionalization: The exact steps, training requirements, and certification process you may like to explore and complete.
Turning Experience into Expertise: How to effectively utilize your lived experience as a professional strength in the workplace.
Who Should Attend?
Individuals with a personal history of recovery interested in providing a professional service.
Students in human services, psychology, or social work programs.
Managers or administrators looking to integrate Peer Workers into their teams.
Anyone interested in the growth of person-centered, non-clinical mental health support.
Your Facilitator - Milly Taylor
Milly Taylor is a Lived Experience Consultant and the Lived Experience Lead at The Peer Practice. Drawing on 15 years in the Community Services industry and her personal journey of mental health recovery, Milly is a powerful advocate dedicated to the Peer sector.
She strategically blends her lived experience with extensive professional expertise to create a more effective and compassionate sector. Milly passionately partners with organisations to co-create truly human-centred spaces where authenticity and well-being are lived realities. Her work champions the idea that Lived Experiences are opportunities for grace, healing, and drawing expertise from our lives to benefit others.