Frequently Asked Questions

A recovery college is a space where we all come together to talk about mental health related topics, with the aim to learn from each other. We are a community that comes from lived or professional expertise. Whether you are still on a recovery journey, healing or just want to know more, we provide safe spaces to sit in discomfort and talk about things relating to mental health that really matter, where we value everyone’s opinions and experiences.

Our courses are a bit different to traditional learning spaces. We learn through collaboration. We have conversations on the topic, we do activities together and we learn from each other. 

Our online courses are not like a webinar. In the space we have interactive activities, we use break out rooms + there is group  discussion.

All our courses are free!

Our courses are for everyone. People from all different backgrounds can come, from young people, to parents, to clinicians, just to name a few. Anyone with an interest in learning! 

Check out this little animation of who can come along:

We might focus on youth, but mental health isn’t just a young person’s thing.

Young people live in communities, they have families and friends and they access mental health services run by professionals.
So we build and run courses that focus on the mental health experiences of young people but open the courses up to everyone because we think that the more communities know about how to support young people the better off young people (and their communities) will be.

Absolutely. We value hearing the perspectives of people from different backgrounds, diverse cultures and experiences.

There can be anywhere up from a few to 30 people in the space. Attendance varies from course to course.

We run our courses both online and in person at venues across the South-East Melbourne region.

Feel free to bring lunch, or you can buy some food at local shops near the venue. We will also provide some snacks. 

Yes! You can. You can attend the course during your professional learning hours, using CPD points as professional development.

Nope! We value learning through open conversations and believe there’s no right or wrong. There are no  checks or assessments done in our courses.

We offer courses either entirely in person or entirely online. 

We love referrals, as we love including anyone and everyone within the space in the hope they can take something from discovery college to practice in their daily life, or reflect on.