Learning Opportunities

We offer a variety of free educational opportunities that promote recovery, self-determination, cultural humility, wellness, and community participation. Through workshops, trainings, and educational programs, we also provide opportunities for leadership development within the peer workforce. All our learning opportunities are free and designed to empower individuals to gain practical tools, share life experiences, and pursue their personal and professional goals in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Financial Wellness Workshop

Created by peer supporters at the Brockton RCC, this in-person workshop is designed for older adults to help them build confidence and skills around money management, especially if navigating low-income, fixed income or working-class realities. Instead of overwhelming jargon or shame-based approaches, the workshop breaks financial concepts into clear, relatable steps that meet people where they are. Guest speakers will present on scams, credit, and other relevant topics. Offered each Fall.

Creative Recovery Workshop

Created by peer supporters at the Brockton RCC, this in-person, hands-on workshop gives participants a space to explore art and expression in a way that supports healing without pressure. Each session offers simple, accessible activities that help participants slow down, reflect, and reconnect with themselves. Creativity becomes a tool for recovery, community, and feeling more grounded. The workshop is open to everyone and will include several sessions and require a commitment to participate. No experience necessary!

Returning in Winter of 2027.

Understanding the Trauma Brain

This hybrid workshop helps people make sense of how the brain responds to stress, trauma, and long-term survival experiences. It breaks complex neuroscience into everyday language, showing how the brain’s protective patterns shape emotions, reactions, and behaviors. Rather than focusing on “what’s wrong,” the workshop highlights “what happened” and how the brain learned to protect us. The series began in April 2026, and continues once a month, rotating at each SERLC Recovery Connection Center with a full virtual option in the winter.

Digital Wellness & Social Media

This new virtual workshop will help participants understand how digital life impacts emotional health, identity, connection, and daily wellbeing. Instead of focusing on “good” versus “bad” social media use, the workshop explores how online spaces shape moods, habits, relationships, and sense of self, especially for people navigating mental health, trauma, and recovery. The workshop is open to everyone and will include several sessions and require a commitment to participate. It is scheduled to begin in Winter of 2027.

Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP)

WRAP is a personalized wellness and recovery tool that helps individuals identify what keeps them well, recognize activators and early warning signs, and develop a plan for managing challenges before they become crises. Created by people with lived experience, WRAP empowers individuals to take an active role in their recovery, build resilience, and create a roadmap for maintaining wellness, hope, and self-direction in their daily lives. This in-person workshop is offered in person at SERLC Recovery Connection Centers throughout the year.

Supporting Digital Resilience in the Age of Social Media

This skills-based virtual training is being created alongside the digital wellness workshop and helps peer supporters understand how digital life affects the people they support emotionally, socially, and in recovery. The training teaches peer supporters how to explore someone’s online world and social media with curiosity, compassion, and through a trauma-informed lens. This new training is planned for Spring/Summer 2027.

The Peer Recovery Bridger Role

This training prepares peer supporters to walk alongside people during moments of transition. It focuses on the core purpose of a Peer Bridger: to be a steady connector, not a fixer, and to help someone move forward at their own pace with dignity and choice. This new virtual training is planned for Spring 2027.

Peer Training Development Series

This new virtual series is designed for peer supporters who are ready to step into training roles. It helps participants understand how to teach in a way that is grounded in peer values, trauma-informed practice, and honors lived experience. Participants explore the core elements of effective peer-centered training, including creating emotionally safe learning environments, modeling mutuality, balancing content with connection, and using lived experience with intention. Coming soon in 2027!