Creating Hope with Peer Support in Inverness: Workshop

We’ll start with an exploration of peer support and why it has a significant role to play in suicide prevention. Then we’ll look at the Creating Hope with Peer Support Pathway which outlines four key stages of the peer support relationship and journey: Connect, Explore, Hope and Support.

• Peer Supporters / Workers in groups or services who want to build their confidence supporting people affected by suicide
• People with lived experience interested in developing peer support skills

(Group numbers for this workshop are deliberately low to provide a small group session where participants in similar roles can discuss challenges, shape solutions and exchange skills and ideas. Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the day.)

• Discussions and activities designed to develop ideas, share experiences, and strengthen existing knowledge
• Explore with fellow participants how peer support can be meaningful and effective in suicide prevention
• An introduction to the Creating Hope with Peer Support Pathway
• An increased understanding of the practice of peer support through shared language and intentionally sharing experiences
• Time dedicated to developing self-care and support strategies
• A space to reflect on the value in what you are doing as a Peer Supporter

"This is a compassionate, gentle approach. It humanises suicide in that it doesn’t feel clinical" - Creating Hope with Peer Support pilot participant.

The workshop is informed by the Creating Hope with Peer Support resource. This practical guide was co-designed and piloted by groups and organisations already delivering peer support for people impacted by suicide. You can order your free copy of Creating Hope with Peer Support from

Scottish Recovery Network supports #CommunicationForAll. If you have any accessibility or communication needs that would help you take part, please let us know. To book BSL interpreters or Electronic Notetakers we need two weeks’ notice.

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The Scottish Government and COSLA'S Suicide Prevention Strategy and Action Plan – – recognises the valuable contribution of peer support in our communities.

Our brings people from across sectors and different walks of life together, to connect and explore the role peer support can play in suicide prevention.

With a focus on the power of lived experience to affect positive change, the project is working with a wide range of partners to boost peer support groups in communities across the country. It is helping to build capacity so that people and families affected by suicide can receive help at the earliest opportunity.

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