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What, why and how I do "A Path To Follow" is complicated apparently (ah, yes it is). This is largely due to our commitment to the customisation of wellbeing services to meet the needs of our peers. But I do get it, I need community to understand what we do, if we are to truly …
Lived Experience Mental Health Peer Support A Mental Health Peer Worker is employed based on their personal lived/living experience of mental health challenges and recovery. They are commonly being employed in hospital and community settings, often alongside the employment of Carer Peers, who tend to support the families of those experiencing challenges. A Path To Follow's Model …
Running any business is hard and running a lived experience mental health business can be both absolutely soul empowering and continually self doubt engendering. When a professional, a service or even a community member openly or subtly (same result either way) ignores or disregards your professional experience it becomes to feel disrespectful, frustrating and exhausting. It …
APTF uses a model of Lived Experience Peer Support, where APTF Peers use their lived and professional experiences to support their peer's journey. Inherent to this model are the foundational principles of Intentional Peer Support’s Framework: From Helping to Learning Together - we don’t see peers as needing to be fixed or us as the …
What is it again? The Sporting Peer Program enhances the wellbeing of young sports people by integrating A Path To Follow’s peer program into existing structures within sporting and/or recreational settings. The program aims to: enhance community connection and prevention of mental wellbeing challenges in young people. support the development of important skills in participants required for increased confidence …
Where to turn when we require professional mental health support? Many people are becoming more and more aware to attend their GP in the first instance when seeking professional mental health support. This is a great practice we encourage in terms of initially looking after one's mental wellbeing. I think we can also confidently say that …
“Here’s where I hope you don’t do what I do with the majority of pre-holiday emails; delete them.
If you have read this far, 🤞🏼you are going to stick with us. I’ll try and make it a short one. BTW, I don’t delete because of anything to do with the sender (usually). I do it because I find this time of year challenging on multiple levels; arbitrary and often meaningless get togethers with people you don’t regularly see, forced consumerism and an arbitrary expectation that everyone in the world likes or celebrates Christmas and has loved ones to spend it with…”
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