Tag: futures
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Trends & Emerging Issues in Peer Support
Following the 2025 PeerWorks and Peer Support Canada conference in May, I have been reflecting on what I understand to be some key emerging issues and trends for the peer support sector in Ontario and beyond — early indicators of change with the potential to dramatically shape what the sector will look like in the…
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Peer Futures Reading List
In celebration of the new year, I thought I would share a list of 10 books I am looking forward to reading (or re-reading) in 2025, related to peerness / community care, futurity, and peer futures. Care Work:Dreaming Disability Justice Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha2018 Inara:Light of Utopia Mx. Yaffa AS (Editor)2024 Living Disability:Building Accessible Futures for…
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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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