From 19.07.-30.07.2021. together with people from 6 counties of Croatia, we participated in the training for peer experts through Zoom.

Our educators from the Netherlands, Cassandra Berkman and Annette Furnemont, shared with us their stories of recovery, gave us guidance, and asked us to design and share our own story of recovery by following how we feel about it.

We learned about the values important for the profession of “peer expert” and tools for creating a personal development document (hope for recovery, right to risk, work on stigma and auto-stigma, application of personal experience in peer work), and the importance of mastering communication skills.

​Through a two-week training, we gained a lot of experience in personal development, and the online way of working allowed us to get to know each other better and connect.