frequently asked questions
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A recovery college is a space to learn about mental health and well-being. Courses are co-developed and co-delivered by professional and lived and/or living expertise alongside each other. Recovery colleges emphasise that recovery is a unique and personal journey for everyone.
Our courses are a bit different to traditional learning spaces. We learn through collaboration and interactive activities. We have conversations on the topic, we explore different theories, we hear people’s stories and we learn from each other.
Our online courses are not like a webinar, and are equally as interactive as our in-person courses.
Our courses + content are free!
The way we work is through co-production.
What does that mean?
Well, for us, when we build our different learning spaces such as a course, a panel or a podcast episode, we want to build it with people who hold expertise and experience around the topic or idea.
We also want them to build it with us every step of the way.
Learn more about co-production here
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! Anyone with an interest in learning is encouraged to join. We value hearing all different perspectives and experiences.
You sure can! Learning can look like many different things. Sometimes that looks like listening and observing.
You are participating by showing up and being present
For our online courses there is the option to use the chatbox and the reactions feature on zoom.
Attendance varies from course to course. Generally there will be anywhere between 10-25 people in an in-person course and up to 35 people for our online courses.
We run our courses both online and in-person at venues across the South-East Melbourne region.
We don’t. We offer courses either entirely in-person or entirely online.
Feel free to bring lunch along or you can buy some food at local shops near the venue. We provide a few small 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 for our courses.
We don’t take referrals as we don’t want to create barriers to coming along. We’re a learning space and we are for everyone.
Is there still something we haven’t quite covered? Don’t hesitate to get in touch!
