Recovery Colleges form a core part of the development of more recovery-focused services. They can be central to shifting an organisation's practices and culture from one which reduces symptoms to one which focuses on the rebuilding of lives, modelling different conversations and understanding whilst challenging practice, attitudes, behaviours and prejudices.

Recovery Colleges can become catalysts for change across the workforce as staff learn alongside those using services – hearing firsthand what helps and what might get in the way of delivering inclusive and empowering services. The co-learning environment challenges power dynamics, deficit-based approaches and stigma as new meaning and understanding is co-developed and acknowledgement of the potential that people are capable of becoming experts in their own care grows.

This workshop explores what the evidence tells us about Recovery Colleges and how this knowledge can inform shifts in practice and culture.