Recovery College Workshops
Imroc’s Neurodiversity Team is dedicated to developing and delivering training that fosters inclusivity and empowerment for neurodivergent individuals. Drawing from lived experience, family insights, and subject matter expertise, the team designs impactful programmes that address the unique challenges faced by neurodivergent communities. In response to feedback that traditional peer support training was difficult for autistic individuals to engage with, Imroc developed the Autism Peer Support Training, a co-produced course created alongside autistic people, parents, and peer experts.
This training equips participants with advocacy skills, adaptive communication techniques, and practical strategies to provide meaningful peer support. Through interactive activities, sensory-friendly approaches, and co-produced content, the programme fosters understanding, confidence, and inclusive practices, benefiting autistic individuals, families, and carers. Imroc’s commitment to neuroinclusion goes beyond adapting content—it ensures that neurodivergent voices are at the heart of the training. Standard adjustments are embedded, and additional support is provided in collaboration with nominating organisations. Rooted in co-production and continuous adaptation, the training evolves based on research and participant feedback, ensuring it remains responsive to the needs of neurodivergent individuals. As part of Imroc’s growing portfolio, the Autism Peer Support Training reflects a commitment to reducing inequalities and amplifying neurodivergent voices in shaping their futures.
To learn more or enrol, contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Explore Our Workshops:
Recovery Colleges: A Quiet Revolution
This workshop explores each of the 6 key dimensions which underpin a Recovery College, understanding how these might be evident in a college, how existing good practice might be strengthened, what challenges there might be and how these might be overcome.
Structure
2 – 2.5 hours (1 x 2 or 2.5 hour session)
Online via Zoom
Who is this course for?
Those considering developing a Recovery College and those who are in the early stages of Recovery College Development
Modules
Please contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Additional Details
Induction & Assessment: No
Cohort Size: Up to 15 people
Cost & Booking: Contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Setting up a Recovery College: The Practicalities
This introductory workshop explores your ambitions to develop a college and considers key practicalities of setting up a Recovery College such as the underpinning dimensions/principles, structure and location, the student journey, team and curriculum development, quality assurance and evaluation.
Structure
2 – 2.5 hours (1 x 2 or 2.5 hour session)
Online via Zoom
Who is this course for?
Those considering developing a Recovery College and those who are in the early stages of Recovery College Development
Modules
Please contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Additional Details
Induction & Assessment: No
Cohort Size: Up to 15 people
Cost & Booking: Contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Recovery Colleges: Vehicles for Transformation
Recovery Colleges form a core part of the development of more recovery-focused services. They can be central to shifting an organisation’s practices and culture from one which reduces symptoms to one which focuses on the rebuilding of lives, modelling different conversations and understanding whilst challenging practice, attitudes, behaviours and prejudices.
Recovery Colleges can become catalysts for change across the workforce as staff learn alongside those using services – hearing firsthand what helps and what might get in the way of delivering inclusive and empowering services. The co-learning environment challenges power dynamics, deficit-based approaches and stigma as new meaning and understanding is co-developed and acknowledgment of the potential that people are capable of becoming experts in their own care grows.
This workshop explores what the evidence tells us about Recovery Colleges and how this knowledge can inform shifts in practice and culture.
Structure
2 – 2.5 hours (1 x 2 or 2.5 hour session)
Online via Zoom
Who is this course for?
Those considering developing a Recovery College, those who are in the early stages of Recovery College Development and colleges keen to extend the impact of college practice into the wider organisation/system
Modules
Please contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Additional Details
Induction & Assessment: No
Cohort Size: Up to 20 people
Cost & Booking: Contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Recovery Colleges and Co-production Part 1
Underpinning all aspects of Recovery and wellbeing is co-production. This entails active, and supported partnerships between the College and all others who have a stake in the work. At an individual level, this means shared decision making between Trainers and the students they support; at a college team level, it means engagement with current and former students in making decisions about how things are done: from day to day routines to documentation, staff recruitment, curriculum and course development etc. At a service level it means having access to a properly recruited, trained and supported pool of trainers with subject expertise, lived experience and trainers with professional expertise who can be accessed, according to strengths, interests and experience to co-produce and co-deliver training, to develop, review and evaluate the college and to support students to access the college.
In this workshop, we will define co-production and how it works in our everyday practice. This will include the principles used to model co-production and how this approach can benefit those who use our services.
We will consider current evidence and will spend some time thinking about what that means and how this approach can be implemented in a Recovery College. We will look at how co-production in a Recovery College is different to service user involvement and how, when we work collaboratively, can create an environment in a Recovery College where co-production can flourish.
Structure
2 – 2.5 hours (1 x 2 or 2.5 hour session)
Online via Zoom
Who is this course for?
Those considering developing a Recovery College and those who are in the early stages of Recovery College Development
Modules
Please contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Additional Details
Induction & Assessment: No
Cohort Size: Up to 20 people
Cost & Booking: Contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Recovery Colleges and Co-production Part 2
In this optional second Workshop, we explore the challenges and barriers, both organisationally and personally, that may arise and will consider how we might overcome them. In this session you will have the opportunity to apply what you have learned in Part 1 and co-create an operational aspect of your college’s delivery such a ‘Mission Statement’, an outline of your future operation policy, deciding who the college is for, and how everyone can be involved and valued for their contribution.
Structure
2 – 2.5 hours (1 x 2 or 2.5 hour session)
Online via Zoom
Who is this course for?
Those considering developing a Recovery College, those who are in the early stages of Recovery College Development and colleges keen to extend the impact of college practice into the wider organisation/system.
Modules
Please contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Additional Details
Induction & Assessment: No
Cohort Size: Up to 15 people
Cost & Booking: Contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Recovery Colleges: Defining features
We will work closely with all Recovery College stakeholders to co-produce an in-depth review of your Recovery College utilising the 6 Imroc Recovery College defining features (Educational/ Adult Learning, Coproduced, Community facing, Recovery focused, Progressive and Inclusive) as a framework for 6 workshops.
Each of these workshops will explore together:
What the principle means in the context of Recovery Education
How you are currently implementing this principle in all aspects and at all levels of your College
How current practice might be improved and developed within the Recovery College
How best practice might be extended across the organisation
How best practice might be extended into local communities and facilities.
Your short, medium and long term priorities for action on this principle
This review will identify potential areas for development within the College as well as ways in which the College can become a vehicle for transformation across the organisation and beyond. It will form the basis for clear action plans owned, led and implemented by participants in the workshops who bring lived experience, professional expertise, subject knowledge (for example as a family member, a community group leader, key stakeholder).
Structure
2 – 2.5 hours (6 X 2 or 2.5 hour session)
Online via Zoom
Who is this course for?
Those involved in delivering an established Recovery College and their partners
Modules
Please contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Additional Details
Induction & Assessment: No
Cohort Size: Up to 20 people
Cost & Booking: Contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Recovery College: Train the Trainer
This 6-session course will provide an overview of how to develop and deliver Recovery College workshops and courses. We will consider what makes an effective Recovery College Trainer, review learning and teaching styles, develop skills in planning, delivering and evaluating workshops.
Structure
2 – 2.5 hours (6 X 2 or 2.5 hour session)
Online via Zoom
Who is this course for?
Those considering developing a Recovery College and those who are in the early stages of Recovery College Development
Modules
Please contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org
Additional Details
Induction & Assessment: No
Cohort Size: Up to 15 people
Cost & Booking: Contact recoverycolleges@imroc.org