Navigating in a value-driven practice: a study of a Dutch Recovery College as a learning, social, and organizational space.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Recovery Colleges (RCs) facilitate a peer-supported learning environment, co-created bottom-up for and by people with mental vulnerabilities. They explicitly aim to facilitate something different from traditional mental healthcare services, as their ideology is rooted in an emancipatory movement (with focus on peer support, empowerment, and personal recovery). RCs' ideology comes with key peer support values such as equity, reciprocity, connectedness and empowerment. This study provides an experiential description of an RC practice, scrutinizing how peer support (PS) values are enacted and how partakers experience such value-driven practice.

Methods

This study employs triangulation by combining twin-interviews, participatory observations (with auto-ethnographic

SUBMITTER: van Wezel MMC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12570177 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature