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Mapping Peer Support Futures
On February 27, I facilitated a workshop for PeerWorks members with the goal of mapping the future of mental health peer support and outlining possible scenarios. This workshop was attended by 6 peer workers, primarily from Ontario. Below is a summary of some of our discussions. [A short summary of the results from this workshop…
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Peer Support Futures: Conference Presentation
On February 6, I will be doing a presentation on my research on peer support futures as a part of the 4th annual virtual Peer Support Strong conference, hosted by PeerWorks and the Lived Experience & Recovery Network. Introducing Peer Support Futures: On Hope, Dream, and Building Utopia Tuesday, February 62:00 – 2:45 Eastern Time…
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Dreaming Peer Support Futures
My major research paper, Dreaming Peer Support Futures, is now available on YorkSpace! Drawing on practices of diffractive reading supported by zine-making methods, throughout this major research paper I explore the question: “what could a lens of futurity offer the discipline of consumer/survivor peer support?” In Chapter 1, I engage in a theoretical dialogue between…
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Dreaming Together: (Re)Imagining Pathways for Peer Advancement
On May 9, 2023, during the PeerWorks Annual Conference, Colene Allen and I facilitated a “dreaming together” networking session / workshop on the topic of possible pathways for career advancement within the peer sector.
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Dreaming like Fire Ants
For women … poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name…
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institutional ethnography and/as policy analysis
[critically] (thinking about) policy is critical. how to analyze, explicate? institutional ethnography offers one way… toward a social onto/epistemological “paradigm shift” that “keeps […] people* in view” *(and their everyday lives); that “take[s] sides” to understand “how” …?
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