{"id":40,"date":"2016-07-26T13:07:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T13:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buckinghamshirerecoverycollege.org.uk\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:44:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:44:37","slug":"lived-experience-tutors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/bucksrecoverycollege\/tutors\/lived-experience-tutors\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Lived Experience Tutor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>Lived Experience Tutor<\/strong> is someone who has personal experience with mental health challenges and has learned how to manage them using recovery tools.<\/p>\n<p>Our tutors come from many different backgrounds and have experience with a wide range of mental health challenges. This allows us to offer a variety of courses, from <strong>Mindfulness<\/strong> to <strong>Managing Psychosis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>How are they trained?<\/h2>\n<p>All our Lived Experience Tutors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are trained to teach and support students.<\/li>\n<li>Have regular supervision to make sure any problems are handled well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many tutors have also taken courses to learn more about recovery and may have other professional training in mental health or teaching.<\/p>\n<h2>What other experience do they have?<\/h2>\n<p>Some tutors may also have experience as <strong>supporters, relatives, or carers<\/strong> for someone with mental health challenges.<\/p>\n<h2>How do they work with other tutors?<\/h2>\n<p>Lived Experience Tutors work together with a <strong>Tutor by Training<\/strong> (a mental health professional like a therapist or psychologist). These professionals have training in mental health care and sometimes have had their own mental health challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Together, they help <strong>co-develop<\/strong> and <strong>co-deliver<\/strong> the courses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nhsuk-care-card nhsuk-care-card--non-urgent\">\n                <div class=\"nhsuk-care-card__heading-container\">\n                    <h3 class=\"nhsuk-care-card__heading\"><span role=\"text\"><span class=\"nhsuk-u-visually-hidden\">Non-urgent advice: <\/span>What is co-production?<\/span><\/h3>\n                    <span class=\"nhsuk-care-card__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"nhsuk-care-card__content\">\n<p><strong>Co-production<\/strong> means that courses are created and taught by both people with lived experience of mental health challenges and people with professional training.<\/p>\n<p>This partnership helps make the courses better and more useful for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>This is known as <strong>co-production<\/strong> and <strong>co-delivery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n            <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lived Experience Tutor is someone who has personal experience with mental health challenges and has learned how to manage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1055,"parent":9,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/bucksrecoverycollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/bucksrecoverycollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/bucksrecoverycollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/bucksrecoverycollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/bucksrecoverycollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/bucksrecoverycollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/bucksrecoverycollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/1449"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/bucksrecoverycollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/bucksrecoverycollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}