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 named workbook pages, and 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 it has shown
Nothing yet. This is the row a funder or a health authority looks for first, so here it is with this series' honest entry in it.
| Programme | Published evidence |
|---|---|
| The Working Mind (MHCC) | Meta-analysis across eight replications |
| R2MR for first responders | Meta-analysis of programme outcomes |
| WRAP | Randomised controlled trial |
| Living Life to the Full | Published effectiveness data |
| Equipped With Agency | None yet. No cohort has run. |
0 cohorts have run, so there is nothing to report. When there is, 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
0 people have completed the facilitator pathway. One person delivers this series and he wrote it. The facilitators 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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