What is a Lived Experience Tutor?
A Lived Experience Tutor is someone who has personal experience with mental health challenges and has learned how to manage them using recovery tools.
Our tutors come from many different backgrounds and have experience with a wide range of mental health challenges. This allows us to offer a variety of courses, from Mindfulness to Managing Psychosis.
How are they trained?
All our Lived Experience Tutors:
- Are trained to teach and support students.
- Have regular supervision to make sure any problems are handled well.
Many tutors have also taken courses to learn more about recovery and may have other professional training in mental health or teaching.
What other experience do they have?
Some tutors may also have experience as supporters, relatives, or carers for someone with mental health challenges.
How do they work with other tutors?
Lived Experience Tutors work together with a Tutor by Training (a mental health professional like a therapist or psychologist). These professionals have training in mental health care and sometimes have had their own mental health challenges.
Together, they help co-develop and co-deliver the courses.
Non-urgent advice: What is co-production?
Co-production means that courses are created and taught by both people with lived experience of mental health challenges and people with professional training.
This partnership helps make the courses better and more useful for everyone.
This is known as co-production and co-delivery.
Page last reviewed: 20 January, 2025