An introduction for non-peer supervisors to understand the CPS role, ethics, and values. Participants gain tools to integrate peer staff more effectively, elevate peer leaders, and better understand the core approaches of the peer model.

A 2-hour wellness-focused session for general workplaces. Participants learn trauma-informed management, recognize the difference between immediate coping tools and longer term self-care, and apply strategies that enhance staff well-being across all eight dimensions of wellness.

This training explores how peer support can be a pathway to re-indigenizing and decolonizing society by restoring relationships, community, and connection. Grounded in Indigenous traditions of storytelling, sacred circles, and ancestral guidance, participants will examine how these practices inform modern peer support. The workshop invites reflection on how peer support can help reclaim cultural identity, heal intergenerational trauma, and foster collective transformation.

This training helps clinicians learn from peer support workers and the power of lived experience in understanding mental health and recovery. By looking beyond diagnosis to context, culture, and community, participants gain practical tools to apply equity-based, dignity-centered care in their clinical practice.

This is not your typical “don’t say this, don’t do that” workshop. Instead, it is a layered exploration of the human experience and what it means to create peace within ourselves, our communities, and our systems through lived experience storytelling.

Too often, mental health is considered separate from physical health and disability. This course bridges peer support and disability justice, emphasizing whole-person wellness, the social model of disability and tools for fostering trauma-informed environments. Participants learn about neurodivergence, navigating competing access needs, inclusive language, policies, and design.

A central component of the successful delivery of trauma-informed care is the ability to effectively communicate and partner with people from varied cultural backgrounds.

This course examines the tension between the principle of Do No Harm and the reality that, as humans, we inevitably cause harm in our professional lives, even while delivering trauma-informed care. Grounded in Indigenous principles of restorative justice, the training explores the trauma of causing trauma, how to address harm when it occurs, and how to prevent further injury by expanding worldview and practicing cultural humility.

Kiva Centers’ Connecting After Trauma training is a condensed 2-hour version of our Peer Trauma Guide, designed for both clinicians and people looking to enter the peer workforce.