Peer Solidarity Certificate Program: Introducing Our Curriculum Co-Developers!

We’re super excited to announce our Curriculum Co-Developers for our upcoming Peer Solidarity Certificate Program 🤩

The 10 modules they are developing will be a core part of this unique program, designed to empower participants with a theoretical and practical understanding of autonomous, abolitionist, and accessible mental health care. ✊🏿

Be a part of the UK’s first certificate program for politicised peer support, what we call Peer Solidarity. ✨🧠

Apply now via the link below! 🔗

👇🏾Keep reading to meet our incredible team of curriculum co-developers!!👇🏾

Modules 1 & 2: Peer Solidarity & Autonomous Mental Healthcare

developed by Aiyana

Aiyana is a multidisciplinary artist – whose work spans writing, music, theatre, and filmmaking – and a community organiser.

Aiyana has founded many initiatives, particularly those that focus on the liberation of nonhuman animals, children and young people, and neurodivergent people. Aiyana is co-founder and co-publisher at The Anima Print and founding executive director of NEUROMANCERS.

Module 3: Crisis Support

developed by Kaan Yasemin

Kaan (they/them) is curious about how we do safety, care and interdependence better. They started practising as a teenager with other teenagers, and years later as an ex-domestic and sexual abuse support worker, a facilitator and someone living with chronic suicidality.

They also write poetry about their family history and transness, and perform a drag act of an over-confident DIY Youtuber.

Module 4: Suicidality & Self-Injury

developed by Black Suicidality Support

Black Suicidality Support is an online collective care & educational platform launching in 2026. BSS is created by and for Black people with direct experience of being first aid carers, supporting loved ones experiencing suicidal ideation, and distress. BSS seeks to serve as a response to a community need for dignity-affirming, accessible and sustainable support by operating with a politicised understanding of suicidality, that recognises and visibilises suicidality on a spectrum, offering practical ways to tend to distress.

Module 5: Plurality & Dissociation

developed by FluxStar & Esmé

Collectively named FluxStar (they/it/we/us), they are an ungendered dissociative System. They are a member of the NEUROMANCERS volunteer team and Advisory Board.

Their practices gravitate around authenticity and depolarisation. Whilst their late diagnosis of DID has lead their work to hyperfocus on championing Black Dissociative Systems in particular.

Esmé (they/she) is a sapphic, asexual, neuroqueer, vegan, intersectional anarcho-feminist.

Their daily labour (paid and unpaid) centres on trying to offer autonomy-respecting and interdependence-honouring, gentle, compassionate care, advocacy and solidarity to those traumatised by interpersonal abuse and betrayal, and invariably retraumatised by institutional abuse and betrayal.

They are particularly interested in psych abolition and disability justice and children's liberation.

Module 6: Navigating the Sensory & Social

developed by rosa (@the_rosa_artist)

rosa is a multidisciplinary storyteller, grower and facilitator. Through their work they create quiet spaces to radically listen, question, unlearn, dismantle, imagine, play, and tell stories.

They understand themselves as a part of an infinitely intricate ecosystem of decomposers, quietly and madly composting systems of oppression and cultivating compost in which liberated, care-rooted futures might be sown.

Module 7: Emotionally Heightened States

developed by Karren Barcita

Karren Barcita (she/her) is a reproductive justice advocate and facilitator who works through lived experience, peer support, community storytelling, and collective care.

She believes returning to ourselves is a practice of remembering our own humanness.

Module 8: Psychosis & Altered States

MIND & Hearing Voices Network

Alex Phillips (She/Her) is the Hearing Voices Projects Supervisor at Mind in Camden; the project is lived experience lead and was launched at Mind in Camden from 2005, building its roots from the Hearing Voices Network. The Project has three strands to its work, London Hearing Voices Network, Voices Collective (under 25s), and Voices Unlocked.

Module 9: Addiction & Harm Reduction

developed by Dani, co-founder of Safe Only CIC

Dani is a performer, community organizer, harm reduction practitioner, bear. They have been an active part of London's LGBTQI+ scene for a decade, organizing in groups including ACT UP London, The Love Tank, the revived Gay Liberation Front, and they are a co-founder of Safe Only CIC. Dani is learning Yiddish and recently started a punk band.

Module 10: Surviving Abuse & Interpersonal Violence

developed by SLEEC

Meggan and Bryony are the co-founders of SLEEC. They bring over 26 years of combined experience in human rights, male violence & harm prevention, earning multiple awards for their impactful work. They have worked within safe houses, sexual violence and domestic abuse services, trafficking and sexual exploitation support and mental health care. They have led and contributed to numerous campaigns focused on domestic violence, rape and sexual violence, anti-trafficking, detention centers, and class injustice.

✨We can’t wait to learn with you!✨

🤑Did you know the program is FREE for 18-25 year olds? There are also payment plans/sliding scale options available for older applicants!🤑

📅The program runs from February - December 2026 and is delivered entirely remotely!

🔥Be a part of the UK's first certificate program for politicised peer support, and build a future of abolitionist, autonomous, and accessible mental health care.🔥