When facilitating groups becomes part of your world.
Peer Support Group Facilitator Training
With Peer Support Values Refresher
November 20, 23, 25, 27
16 hour course
Times (Check your Time Zone):
9am to 11am and noon to 2pm Central Daylight Time
16 hour course
Times (Check your Time Zone):
9am to 11am and noon to 2pm Central Daylight Time
This 16‑hour training is designed for Peer Supporters who want to confidently and authentically facilitate peer support groups.
We begin with a full day dedicated to peer values — reconnecting with the principles that make peer support unique, relational, and powerful. By the end of Day One, participants feel grounded in what peer support is, what it isn’t, and how to show up in ways that honour lived experience.
Over the next three days, we explore the structure and flow of peer groups, the difference between peer support groups and peer‑led groups, and how to facilitate in ways that protect your own mental health. Through hands‑on practice, reflection, and multiple learning modalities, participants build the skills and confidence needed to lead groups with clarity and heart.
All training materials incorporate the following:
- Peer Support Canada Knowledge Matrix requirements related to peer support delivery
- Mental Health Commission of Canada’s (MHCC) peer support values (as outlined in the Guidelines for the Practice and Training of Peer Supporters)
- Principles of trauma informed support; and
- Integration of mental health, family-based, addiction-based, and other related peer support discussions (e.g. specific to the participants in the group).
The training incorporates discussions related to:
- Peer support values and staying true to them in group settings
- The distinction between peer-led versus peer support groups
- Bias and diversity
- Managing stress, our own wellness
- Fundamentals of facilitating a group:
- how do I set them up?
- safety
- boundaries
- welcomes and introductions
- virtual or in-person groups
- How to manage different groups (inclusive of adjusting styles dependent upon where the participants are coming from).
Online on Zoom.
Cost $400.00 US dollars