Running a training day for volunteers working on a new online peer support service for APP I was really pleased to be asked to help out with APP’s new online peer support programme. APP has been funded to provide peer support to women with postpartum psychosis and their partners. They have been running an online…
Category: Training & online learning
Happify yourself?
Want to be happier every day? Well who doesn’t? Personally I am interested in exploring ways of helping me manage my wellbeing as I try to cut down on the anti depressants I have been on for the last 12 years (a process that seems to have stalled around the 20mg mark). I’ve also recently…
E Learning and Digital Cultures – initial insights from a metaMOOC!
Do you ever start something new and find yourself thinking ‘I should have been doing this for ages’? I had a very strong case of that this week as I began a new Coursera course called ‘E Learning and Digital Cultures‘ online. Last year I watched a fascinating TED talk by Daphne Koller, one of…
Having a Moodle – what I’ve learnt about online learning.
After a recent dinnertime debate was resolved using the internet, a friend of mine said wistfully “Sometimes I just speculate indefinitely for old times’ sake”. I expect that this is a sentiment that we all recognise – the way we approach what we don’t know and the way we develop our knowledge is changing. So…tell…
Essential skills for giving online peer support – a course in development.
The essential skills advisors and peer supporters need for giving advice, information or support online These are some of the basic skills that supporters and advisors find useful when working online. The support offered might be one to one (email style), peer or expert support, moderating forums or moderating real time chat. Depending on the…
Using the web to provide peer support for emotional health and wellbeing
This is a write up of my thoughts, experience and findings from the In Petto conference ‘Exploring Online Peer to Peer Support’ in Antwerp. I attended this, along with a volunteer peer advisor last November. Structures and systems for providing online peer support. At the conference we were focusing in more depth on peer support and…