Beware of emotional support dog. Don't walk away! Talk to me! By Dave Coverly

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Two recent articles approach the same question from different directions: how artistic practice is sustained under extractive conditions.

My Artquest article argues that peer support is infrastructure.

Despina Zefkili’s Fast-burning fuels in Octopus traces funding pressures and project-based production.

What connects them is a shared rejection of the fantasy that institutions will solve this for us.

https://artquest.org.uk/how-to-articles/how-to-throw-your-own-party-peer-mentoring-as-infrastructure/

More info: https://videomole.tv/blog/support-structures-for-fast-burning-fuels/

#PeerSupport #SelfOrganisation

To support our peers, prioritize conversations over stories. Here's why events and associations should prioritize interaction.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/associations-2/2025/06/power-peer-conversation

#associations #PeerSupport #conferences #MeetingDesign

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Supporting Someone with a Mental Illness

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There is magic in the words "Me too."
Finding other people with bipolar disorder reminded me that I’m not broken,
I’m just part of a unique tribe.
#PeerSupport #NAMI #BipolarCommunity #Bipolar

Read today’s Club post: https://open.substack.com/pub/speakingbipolar/p/finding-your-fellow-travelers-on?r=y4fp9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

peer support (mutual aid) > psychiatry (authority)

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Peer Support Futures

My essay, “Peer Support Futures” has been published in The Perch, an open-access (free to read) creative arts mental health journal, published by the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health.

Read “Peer Support Futures” online

This paper is based on my previous major research paper “Dreaming Peer Support Futures“, and is an exploration of the discipline of peer support through a lens of futurity and utopia. It outlines how futures thinking has always been at the heart of mental health peer support, both in terms of its social movement origins (as dreams and demands for a better world) and contemporary practices (through the peer support value of “hope”). It frames “recovery” as the reclamation of self-determination over our own futures, as well as privileges lost through psychiatrization. Lastly, it aims to trouble the dominant (white/Western) “origin story” of mental health peer support, highlight its impact on the present, and encourage the dreaming of alternative peer support futures grounded within diverse peer knowledges and lineages.