SELF-HELP AND PEER SUPPORT GROUP

Group members will:

1. Practice confidentiality.

• What’s said here in each session stays here, who you hear in each session stays here,
  and please don’t use names of ‘outside’ people when sharing within the group.
• Ensure you are in a private environment during this group. If you are not in a private environment, use earbuds/headphones and turn off your incoming video, to ensure anonymity and confidentiality for all.

2. Practice virtual group etiquette.

This includes:

• Muting your microphone when you’re not speaking.
• Turning your camera off if you want to smoke, vape, or eat.

Please use the hands up function when you’d like to be heard, remembering to put your hand down afterwards.

3. Create space for all to share.
Which includes holding back to make space for quieter people to participate.

4. Practice respect for all.
Including respecting differences of opinions and approaches to recovery, all forms of diversity and the rights of all people within the group to feel respected.

5. Use person-first language and speak from your own experience.
When talking about your experiences, avoid going into specific details that may trigger other group members.

6. Be mindful not to reinforce stigma in your language, for example, when talking about your own or someone else’s body size or shape, or about someone’s mental health status.

7. Be responsible for your own self-care.
You do not have to share if you do not want to and always feel free to pass if you’d like. If you need to step away from the group and practice self care, please do so. If you do need urgent support after the group, please let the facilitators know.