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Bring your peers into the zone!

PeerZone - USA & Canada
Online facilitator training is now available!

PeerZone groups invite Mental Health and Addiction Recovery participants to build a more positive story of their lived experiences by exploring a wide variety of important recovery/life topics through the unique lens of PeerZone’s core values:

  • Self Determination

  • Participation

  • Mutuality

  • Lived Experience

  • Hope

Developed by peers for peers, PeerZone is a unique curriculum that easily flexes to work for many different audiences, embodying the Peerzone tenet “most of the knowledge is within the group.”  PeerZone can be facilitated in-person and online and topics are designed for maximum participation and collaboration. 

Our next session is coming in October 2025.

WHAT IS PeerZone?

PeerZone is a series of peer-led workshops for people who experience mental health and addiction challenges. The workshops are a combination of peer support and recovery education and provide a fun, interactive, safe structure for participants to share their experiences, learn self-management, and expand their horizons. Workshops explore distress, recovery, and major life domains such as lifestyle, relationships, housing, and employment.

These pre-packaged workshops can be offered as 18 three-hour or 36 ninety-minute sessions. Since 2013, PeerZone has certified over 300 facilitators worldwide and is currently running in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. PeerZone has been successfully piloted and all the workshops are evaluated.

Workshop Facilitator Training

PeerZone offers a 4-day training for peer workers to become licensed facilitators, who then deliver the PeerZone workshops as part of their employment to people in their service or community. Post-training support includes monthly group teleconferences, advice, and improvements to workshops and access to our mobile-friendly website. Facilitators also gain access to our online toolkit with 52 new workshops full of resources for use 1:1 and in shorter groups.

For more information about about our October 2025 training, click the button below:

Join a PeerZone Group

MHAAO is currently hosting weekly PeerZone groups and biweekly PeerZone for Peer Support Specialist (PZ4PSS) groups.