Lived Experience Recovery Organisations: Peer Generated Epicentres of Personal Change and Collective Transformation (Recovery Pathways Series Book 3)
SUIT are thrilled to have contributed to this amazing lived experience series of books, and you can view our chapter in “Lived Experience Recovery Organisations: Peer Generated Epicentres of Personal Change and Collective Transformation (Recovery Pathways Series Book 3). The series has been created by Dr David Patton and Dot Smith of Recovery Connections, who have launched New Central Media together. Since meeting David through events & conferences, he has championed our organisation, and we are humbled to be published alongside innovative, inspirational, and diverse lived experience testimonies. The book has an introductory chapter by Dr Ed Day, SUIT ally, and the government’s official Recovery Champion.
“This ground breaking collection brings together 14 powerful, first-person accounts from leaders of Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (LEROs) leading the climb to transform the way recovery is done in the UK. These grassroots, peer-led initiatives are transforming the addiction recovery landscape. Born out of personal journeys through addiction, incarceration, and marginalisation, these organisations are reshaping how recovery is understood and delivered: not as a clinical destination, but as a cultural, collective, and community-driven process.
Spanning cities, towns, and rural communities, the 14 chapters document the struggles, triumphs, and deep-rooted commitment of people who have turned lived experience into lived expertise. With contributions from across England, Scotland, and Wales, this book showcases the innovative work of LEROs in building inclusive, recovery-oriented systems of care.
This book is both a celebration of recovery communities and a manifesto for embedding lived experience into the heart of national systems.”
Performing Recovery Magazine
In 2023, Marcus and Christiane visited Liverpool Hope University, for the Addiction-Recovery Arts Futures conference, held by Addiction-Recovery-Arts founders Leon & Alex. It was a total game changer…
We listened to people that shared a vision and a mission to create opportunity through co-design, creative expression, and the huge power that comes with lived experience.
Performing Recovery have continually supported our mission and we are so very grateful of them publishing our work happening in the Wolverhampton community, putting SUIT on the map as a leading organisation working in creative practice for recovery, and for introducing us to some brilliant people!
