𝗣𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 🎙️ In this episode, Cate speaks with Ciara Glynn, a peer support leader, trainer and activist from Ireland. Listen to Ciara's story here on our website👉 buff.ly/cf8XYvG

“𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗜𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿” - 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘦 🎙️ In this episode Cate speaks with Charlie, a peer support worker in an NHS community mental health team, a trainee therapist, and the founder of a growing sober community in Shrewsbury. Listen to Charlie's story here on our website buff.ly/ppeIjU6

Shoulder-to-Shoulder Podcast, Ep 42 Duncan Marshall🎙️ In this episode, Cate meets Duncan, who is CEO of CAPITAL in West Sussex, one of the first lived-experience-led organisations in the country that has spent nearly 30 years championing peer support Listen here 👉 buff.ly/K94FRCN

Today we are at our new Nottingham based community workspace as our weekly in-person touchpoint. We are surrounded by a creative art exhibition and access to great coffee! Thank you to Nottingham colleagues Jess Pheasant, Ryan Knight, Tracey Alletson and Marissa Lambert for all your hard work!

In early April we met as a team to discuss exciting new developments around the future of digital learning and networking at With-you. 💻 We are dedicated to creativity and innovation, and exploring ways we can continue to leverage digital technology to support peer supporters!

Embracing Change: A Journey of Courage, Growth and Lived Experience 🌱 New With-you Associate, Alison Payne shares her reflections on the creative freedom, possibility, and "opportunity to redefine where I belong" that can come from embracing change. Read the full piece here 👉 buff.ly/nnmvbuu

Shoulder-to-Shoulder Podcast, Ep 40 Naomi Salisbury🎙️ This week Cate Munro is joined by Naomi Salisbury, whose relationship with peer support has spanned decades. Listen here 👉 buff.ly/Y8g7zjb

Resharing Ep 5: Cate speaks with Anita, a suicide survivor, mother, grandmother, peer and activist. Anita shares her lived experience of racism, discrimination and the devastating loss of her mother to suicide. She speaks about how peer support helped her navigate profound adversity. buff.ly/bitKM9N

Surinder explores how shared movement can transform confidence, challenge stereotypes around ageing and create deep connection across generations. Surinder invites us to consider how our bodies hold stories and what becomes possible when those stories are witnessed together.👉 buff.ly/bbyhwOl

Resharing Ep 3: Jacqui shares how early trauma shaped her life across two continents and how peer support played a vital role in her healing. From the quiet understanding of friends to actively seeking out networks, this ep highlights the impact of connection and shared experience.👉 buff.ly/HKiF1fO

Today, we’re celebrating the incredible work of Coventry Haven Women’s Aid and the quiet power of peer support. In domestic abuse services, support often happens in everyday moments, a cup of tea in a refuge kitchen, a walk to school, or a shared laugh after months of hardship.👉 buff.ly/JuxnCpA

Charlotte is an author, cancer survivor and Project Lead for Black Women Rising shares her journey of recovery and highlights the vital role peer support plays in creating safe, empowering spaces for women of colour affected by cancer. Listen here 👉️ buff.ly/k5Gbks2

Eating Disorders Awareness Week – Resharing Alex’s Story Alex’s journey shows that recovery from eating disorders isn’t just about treatment — it’s about connection, understanding and peer support. Hear a story of resilience, hope and the power of people who truly understand. buff.ly/2w65wcl

Ian Smith refereed 272 Super League matches between 1999–2010. From the highs of elite rugby league to the intense scrutiny, abuse and eventual retirement after one pivotal match - his story is a powerful reminder that even the strongest-looking people carry unseen pressures.👉 buff.ly/NI3jLpc

Last Chance to Submit! Share Your Story for Exchange Magazine’s Spring Edition – Submissions Close 6th March 🌷 Deadline for submissions is 6th March. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this edition!

🌈 This LGBT+ History Month, we’re resharing a powerful podcast episode with Iris-Nur Noor. Iris-Nur, a trans Asian woman, shares her journey from fine art to education and into peer support, reflecting on the unique challenges she faced as a trans woman of colour 👉

🚨 Just over a week to go: Peer Support for Eating Disorders Workshop Join us for a powerful 3-hour, peer-led session exploring how lived-experience-informed support can create safer, more hopeful pathways for people experiencing eating distress or eating disorders. 👉https://buff.ly/4FaBjE6

📢 Last few places: Peer Support for Eating Disorders Workshop 27 Feb | 09:30–12:30 | Online This session is for anyone who wants to better understand how peer support can help create safer, more hopeful pathways to recovery. Book your place now 👉 buff.ly/4FaBjE6 #MentalHealthAwarenesss

This week on Shoulder-to-Shoulder: Emma, co-lead of Cafe Laziz, a peer-led community space supporting asylum seekers and refugees, reflects on why peer-led mental health support is so powerful in community settings and how consistency and care can stabilize lives shaped by trauma 👉 buff.ly/pWZ1Ie4

📢 Eating Disorders Awareness Week is coming up and awareness alone isn’t enough anymore. Join for a 3-hour, peer-led session exploring how lived-experience-informed support can create safer, more hopeful pathways for people experiencing eating distress or eating disorders 👉 buff.ly/d0etdiD

In this latest Spotlight Piece, Registered Mental Health Nurse Karen Corvin explores the impact of moral injury within eating disorder practice, support, and peer support roles and the emotional and ethical challenges that come with this work. 👉 buff.ly/a7D0yjn

Peer Support for Eating Disorders Workshop – Book Now for Feb 27th! 🗓️ Friday 27th February | ⏰ 09:30 – 12:30 | 💻 Online We will be exploring the role of peer-based approaches in supporting those living with eating distress or eating disorders. buff.ly/yiSKvH2

Latest Podcast Episode with Louise, a peer support worker whose lived experience includes postnatal psychosis, inpatient mental health care and long-term recovery. A moving conversation about courage, dignity, and why listening to lived experience isn’t optional, it’s essential.👉 buff.ly/ENaLc9z

🌷 Exchange Magazine submissions are open: Peer Support & Physical Health. We’re looking for real stories showing peer support in physical health - across healthcare and community spaces (clubs, groups, local organisations). Send submissions to [email protected] . Deadline: 6 March ✍️

Peer Support for Eating Disorders Workshop – Feb 27th Discover how peer-led approaches can transform support for those living with eating distress or eating disorders. For anyone who wants to better understand how peer support can help create safer, more hopeful pathways to recovery buff.ly/Ei1aIMJ

Peer Support in Unexpected Places In this personal account, Paul Price reflects on loss, trauma, and the long road to recovery and how peer support became a lifeline. Read Pauls' story here: buff.ly/hVqUS9Q

🎙️Shoulder-to-Shoulder Podcast Episode 36 with Justin Bell, PhD a community psychologist working at the intersection of lived experience, research, and system design. A conversation about designing services that support recovery and the people making it possible. Listen here 👉 buff.ly/RN0j5cQ

Peer Support for Eating Disorders Workshop (Feb 27) Join us for a 3-hour online session during Eating Disorders Awareness Week where we’ll explore how peer-led support can create safer, more hopeful pathways for people experiencing eating distress or eating disorders. 👉 buff.ly/XHb3NR2

Shoulder to Shoulder Podcast: We’re joined by Hansa, founder of Holding Space, a peer-led mental health support service created by and for parents. We talk lived experience, parent carer peer support, feeling unheard, and why empowering and listening to carers changes everything 👉 buff.ly/eNQBkrz

Peer Support for Eating Disorders Workshop (Thu 27 Feb 2026) Join Alexandra Hunter and Jay Lippmann for a 3-hour online session exploring how peer-led support can create safer, more hopeful pathways for people experiencing eating distress or eating disorders.👉 lnkd.in/e3YdYQ-q #PeerSupport

🎧 First podcast episode of 2026: Alex speaks with Cate about the harm she experienced in mental health services, the limits of being treated through diagnosis alone, and what was missing when she needed it most: connection, safety, and people who truly understood. Listen here 👉 buff.ly/yP3i6Vt

Peer Support in Unexpected Places: Second Skin 🎨 This piece from our most recent issue of the Exchange Magazine by Tattoo Artist Ella explores the often unseen emotional labour of tattoo artists — and the vital role peer support plays behind the scenes. Read Second Skin here 👉

Exchange Magazine: Peer Support in Unexpected Places📰 This issue centres the voices, skills and values of peer support far beyond expected settings. We know peer support shows up in so many spaces, yet too often the conversation doesn’t. This edition is our way of changing that👉 buff.ly/fXFj53m

🎙️ New Podcast Ep: Jose on Recovery, Resilience & Giving Back We explore what it’s like when trauma collides with everyday life, the challenges of learning to live again, and how sharing your story can help you heal and inspire others along the way. Listen here 👇 buff.ly/0mKkE56 #PeerSupport

Farida Rahman shares her powerful personal story and the life-changing impact of The Happiness Trap and ACT. She explains it's simple tools which helped her to shift from survival to living a life that feels authentic and meaningful.👇 buff.ly/QxTJtwe #Wellbeing #MentalHealthMatters #PeerSupport

New Podcast Ep: Debbie talks about the emotional reality of caring for someone at risk of suicide. She shares how peer support connected her with other carers who “just get it,” and why the Stronger Together project has become an anchor for people living through the same pressures👇 buff.ly/F9lcv8A

In episode 31, Fiona opens up about how lived experience has shaped her work, and why peer support is far more powerful than most services realise. They dive into Fiona's research on online forums, the iPOF study, and the creation of the Library of Lived Experience. Listen here👇 buff.ly/Tn9hVEp

After 30 years at the BBC, Claire has seen journalism evolve. When she saw that weight landing on reporters and on the people they film, she helped build a peer support network that now has 300 trained volunteers across the organisation. Listen to the full podcast episode here👉 buff.ly/7W15Lsc

🌿A Compassionate Approach to Self-Criticism Workshop Is your inner critic running the show? It’s time to turn down the volume. Join our 3-hour online workshop designed to help you transform negative self-talk, build resilience, and lead with compassion. Spaces are limited: buff.ly/NQ9nITa

🚨 Final places remaining! ✔ Gain tools to navigate peer role challenges. ✔ Build resilience & sustain wellbeing. ✔ Increase confidence as a leader. ✔ Create a personal action plan. ✔ Strengthen your peer network. Leadership & Influencing Training - Starts next week 👉https://shorturl.at/jEM0j

Cate speaks with Emily, a trade union professional, trainer, and peer support volunteer, about her ongoing recovery following a catastrophic head-on collision. She opens up about how peer support gave her a place to belong at a time when she no longer recognised her own life: shorturl.at/tlZtY

Earlier this month, members of our Black and Asian Network reflected on this year’s theme for Black History Month, Standing Firm in Power and Pride - sharing personal stories, supporting one another, and leaving inspired to stand tall for themselves and others. Read more here: buff.ly/Hyscxzk

Ryiah sustained a severe  hip injury while travelling in Bali, setting off a long recovery. Now training as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and volunteering with Day One Trauma Support, she reflects on recovery, anger, meaning, and the power of peer support. Listen here 👉 buff.ly/SuCZ8YN

Honouring Akyaaba Addai-Sebo: The Visionary Behind Black History Month Read about Akyaaba’s inspiring journey and how his vision continues to shape our work and the landscape of peer support today 👉https://buff.ly/jrS1F1b #PeerSupport #LivedExperience #BlackHistoryMonth #WithyouConsultancy

Two days. A lifetime of leadership impact.  14th & 21st November | Online | Limited time of part-funded training places at £300 + VAT, (standard price £440 + VAT) Join the Peer Support: Leadership & Influencing Training – Starts in just over 3 weeks. Find out more today 👉 buff.ly/EGVOqwb

For our next issue of Exchange Magazine, we’re celebrating the people and projects putting peer support into action in unexpected places. To contribute, get in touch with [email protected] by the submission deadline of 5th December. #PeerSupport #WithyouConsultancy #LivedExperience

🌐 Upcoming With-you Network Meetings! Supervisor Network — 21st October, 14:00–16:00 Join us online: buff.ly/A2w7SJT Allyship Network — 27th October, 18:00–19:30 Join us online: buff.ly/0afZN2A  #WithyouNetwork #Allyship #Supervisor #LivedExperience  #PeerSupport #WithyouConsultancy

This week, we’re revisiting our Shoulder to Shoulder Podcast episode with Ruth and Hannah from Care Full. Together, they explore how care is deeply embedded in every part of our lives, not just in health or social care, but as the very foundation of our society and economy 👉 buff.ly/ZvE6YbT #Carers

“Being Seen: In Art, Words and Dance” — a powerful art exhibition by Andy Farr at Coventry Cathedral exploring trauma, resilience & recovery through art, dance & poetry. Our Director, Marissa Lambert joins the free live event on 18 Oct. Find out more here 👇 shorturl.at/e0pXu #PeerSupport

For a WEEK* ONLY, we will take bookings for our 4-day Working with Groups online training in January - £400 + VAT per place (usually £600 + VAT). Contact [email protected] with the subject header ‘Global PS Offer’ to find out more and secure your place. *Offer ends midnight 22.10.25