What this is supposed to change
Seventeen sessions, one tool each, all of them on one loop: notice, name, ground, narrow, act, connect, recover.
The claim is narrow. It is that somebody who has run these tools in a room, weekly, has a sequence to reach for on a bad day that they did not have before — and that reaching for it is a skill, which means it gets easier with repetition and harder without.
That is the whole mechanism. Not insight, not a changed personality, not a resolved history. A sequence, practised often enough to be available under pressure.
Whether it works is a different question and this page does not answer it. The instruments are already chosen, and they are below. Nothing has been measured, because no cohort has run.
What it is built on
B.C. Peer Support Standards of Practice
Eight core values, twenty-five competencies across five categories, and a code of conduct. Every deck in the portfolio has been mapped against all twenty-five, and the mapping is a generated document rather than an assertion.
Published, ISBN-registered source material
The series is not improvised from the book. Every session traces to a numbered chapter and to named workbook pages. A build check fails if a heading drifts between the web and print versions of the same handout.
A written delivery standard
15 core elements, each observable by a third person at the back of the room, with a one-page checklist and a five-stage training pathway.
Credentialled topic training
Pain, substance use, somatic symptom and functional neurological disorder, and eight peer worker practice courses — all listed on the about page, and all actually held.
What a host organisation gets
Everything needed to run the seventeen sessions is published here and free to read. There is no licence to buy, no trainer to certify, and no annual fee per organisation. That is a decision, not a stage this series has not reached yet.
Nothing to buy, and nobody to be certified by
Free to host. No certification, no licence, no fee. The facilitator pathway is published in full and free to walk.
The whole series, not a sample
All seventeen sessions, each with its slides, its participant handout, its facilitator guide and its recording. Free to read and free to run.
Safety that does not rest on a credential
The scope boundary, the crisis block and the referral routing are on every surface. They work whether or not the person facilitating holds a certificate. The series is peer-facilitated and non-clinical by construction.
A measurement plan published before the data
The instruments are named on this page while the answer is still nothing. A first report can then be checked against what was promised, rather than against a measure chosen once the numbers were in.
No cohort has run, so there is nothing to report and nothing is claimed. When there is something to report, it will be reported with its sample size and its design every single time, and it will be pilot data rather than evidence. Overselling a first cohort is how a programme loses exactly the credibility this page exists to build.
What will be measured
The instrument exists and is ready — handed out at the first session and the last, anonymous, paired by a code the participant invents. No individual is ever scored.
WHO-5 Well-Being Index
5 items — validated.
General Self-Efficacy Scale
10 items — validated.
Confidence in the tools
6 items — written for this series, and labelled that way on the form.
Who delivers it
The facilitator pathway is written, published and free to walk, with no certification, licence or fee in it. No one has completed the facilitator pathway yet — this series is delivered by the person who wrote it. The scope page says what that does and does not mean.
Adapted from “Peer Support Services in B.C.: An Overview (Including B.C.'s Peer Support Standards of Practice), Jenn Cusick, Province of British Columbia, 2021”, licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Adapted for this series; the licensor does not endorse this use.
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