This webinar explores how Recovery Colleges have adapted to digital and online learning to support recovery, inclusion, and access. 

We will reflect on what has been learned from the rapid shift to online delivery during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, and how Recovery Colleges across the UK are now using digital and hybrid approaches to reach more people and create flexible, recovery-focused learning opportunities. 

We will share learning from our new publication exploring the benefits, challenges, and adaptations involved in delivering Recovery Colleges online. This includes reflections on accessibility, co-production, digital inclusion, online facilitation, safeguarding, and maintaining connection and hope in digital spaces. 

We will also explore how digital Recovery Colleges can support NHS priorities around prevention, community-based care, inclusion, and early intervention, while remaining grounded in the core Recovery College values of co-production, strengths, empowerment, and shared learning. 

What to Expect

• An introduction to Recovery Colleges and why digital learning matters  

• Reflections on how Recovery Colleges adapted during and after Covid-19  

• Learning from our recent publication on Digital and Online Recovery Colleges

• Examples of online and hybrid Recovery College models from around the UK  

• Discussion about the benefits of online learning, including flexibility, accessibility, inclusion, and reaching wider communities  

• Exploration of challenges such as digital exclusion, technology barriers, safeguarding, and maintaining connection online  

• Practical ideas for creating safe, inclusive, and recovery-focused digital learning environments  

• Reflections on the defining features of RC, such as co-production, adult learning and recovery focus, in online spaces  

• Discussion about how online learning can support people who may not yet feel ready for face-to-face groups  

• What does the future hold for Recovery Colleges. With AI becoming the new challenge in how we adopt the clear positives it gives in terms of processes and not take away the vital role that human relationships bring. 

• Q&A and shared discussion  

Who is the Webinar For?

This webinar is for: 

• Recovery College staff and facilitators  

• Peer trainers and people with lived experience  

• NHS staff and community organisations  

• Mental health practitioners, leaders, and commissioners  

• People interested in digital inclusion and online learning  

• Anyone interested in recovery-focused and co-produced approaches  

Benefits of Attending

By attending, you will: 

• Learn how Recovery Colleges are using digital and online learning to support recovery  

• Explore the benefits and challenges of online delivery  

• Understand how digital approaches can improve access and inclusion  

• Hear examples of innovative practice from Recovery Colleges around the country  

• Reflect on how to maintain connection, hope, and co-production in online spaces  

• Learn practical ideas for online and hybrid delivery  

• Consider how digital Recovery Colleges support prevention, community care, and early intervention  

• Explore how online learning can complement face-to-face Recovery College offers while widening participation and choice  

Waldo Roeg

Waldo is a Senior Peer Consultant with Imroc (Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change) a national charity supporting organisational change to more Recovery Focused Practice. After several years of accessing secondary mental health services in Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, (CNWL) in 2009 he completed a User Employment Placement in Westminster Community Day Services. in London UK.  

He was introduced to the concept of co-production when he played an active part in co-producing CNWL's Health and Wellbeing plans and also played a key role in initiating the Trust’s Peer Support Worker and Recovery College programme. He completed an accredited level 4 Peer Support Training programme through Sheffield Hallam University and Imroc in 2011, and in 2012 completed a level 4 qualification in adult education. 

Waldo was one of the first Peer Support Workers employed in the Trust. He played a key role in starting the third Recovery and Wellbeing College in the UK and was employed as the first Peer Recovery Trainer in CNWL when the College opened in 2012 going on to become a Senior Peer Trainer. He took an active role in co-developing and co-delivering the courses, until 2024 when he retired from the NHS. As an Imroc Consultant he played and continues to play a part in developing the Imroc Peer Support Worker and Peer Supervision training in England and has just finished developing the Imroc national level 3 award in Training for Recovery College Trainers. On behalf of Imroc he has delivered presentations and training across the UK and internationally for the last 16 years He is a member of the International Community of Practice looking at how Recovery Colleges across the world can come together and learn from each other and co facilitates the Imroc Recovery College Learning Set alongside Dr Rachel Perkins. He has contributed to several publications looking at Recovery Colleges, Peer Support, and Co-Production.