IPLN Leadership Incubator Class of 2025
Hayley Peek
Canada
AI and Peer Support. Exploring how peer supporters can lead the ethical use of AI in mental health, ensuring technology enhances vs replaces the human connection at the heart of peer support.
Flóris Roland
Hungary
Legal and Advocacy Awareness Training for Peers. Designing a training programme to equip lived experience practitioners with skills in legal awareness, advocacy, and rights-based support for peers navigating systems.
Jo Lomani
England
Senior Lived Experience Leadership. Growing the senior lived experience workforce in UK policymaking through an online platform for peer leaders to connect, share, and influence national decisions.
Cheryl Tasker
Scotland
Peer Circles in Forth Valley. Developing community-based Peer Circles in Stirling to reduce isolation, foster mutual support, and shift from medical-driven to peer-led recovery.
Ann Kasper
USA
Peer History VR Museum. Creating a Virtual Reality museum to preserve and share the history of the peer movement, connecting generations and expanding access to peer principles worldwide.
Amy Roberts
England
Embedding Peer Support Frameworks (NHS). Implementing an organisational framework to embed and sustain lived experience roles within NHS services, ensuring equity, cultural change, and long-term impact.
Promise Adetoro
Nigeria
Train the Trainers Mental Health in Schools. Training teachers as mental health champions across 40 schools per region, equipping them to integrate mental health education, run peer support clubs, and reach up to 80,000 students and their communities.
Aiyana Goodfellow
England
Exploring how abolitionist peer-led organisations can define and measure success on their own terms: balancing growth with values, resisting commodification, and strengthening community-based leadership.
Yvonne Benson
Canada
Peer-Led Housing Initiative. Developing safe, affordable, peer-governed housing for people with mental health and addiction challenges, fostering independence, belonging, and system change through lived experience leadership.
Georgia Taylor
Wales
Youth Lived Experience Advisory Panel. Establishing a youth-led advisory panel (ages 16–25) to partner with charities and shape inclusive, trauma-informed mental health services, moving from tokenistic consultation to genuine youth leadership in decision-making.
Michael John Norton
Ireland
Peer Supervision Model. Co-designing a supervision pathway for peer and family peer workers that respects lived experience knowledge and offers support tailored to their unique needs.
Amy Crellin
England
Lived Experience in Quality & Safety. Embedding lived experience leadership in NHS quality and safety oversight of inpatient care, challenging poor practice and shaping relational, recovery-focused standards.
Jane Chevous
England
International Survivor-Led Peer Support Network. Expanding a proven survivor-led, trauma-informed peer support model into an international network of groups and a community of practice, with targeted spaces for marginalised survivors and published collective narratives to amplify survivor wisdom.
Nil Suner
England
Lived Experience Podcast Platform. Expanding a podcast series into a shared YouTube channel showcasing global lived experience voices, formats, and collaborations, creating a platform for peer-led storytelling and knowledge exchange.