FREE Webinar - We Know What We Need: On Crisis, Resistance & Survival

Doors to Wellbeing invites you to join our monthly Peer Specialist Webinar Series. This FREE continuing education opportunity brings experts by experience to expand peer specialist skills, knowledge and best practices. The series is the last Tuesday of every month (except December) at 2pm ET/1pm CT/12pm MT/11am PT. 

In this talk for the peer support workforce, we will explore how survivors and peer supporters navigate crisis—individually, interpersonally, and collectively. Together, we'll reflect on the wisdom born from lived experience, examine the tensions of co-optation and burnout, and reconnect with the radical roots of our movement. Grounded in resistance and resilience, this session serves as a call to action to affirm our inherent power to survive, support one another, and shape responses to distress that honor dignity, autonomy, and community care.

Learning Objectives:

• Reflect on the role of lived experience in shaping effective and compassionate peer support.
• Reconnect with the radical roots of peer support as a form of resistance and resilience.
• Identify 2-3 strategies to uphold dignity, autonomy, and community care in responses to distress.

About the presenter: 

Nze Okoronta is a harm reductionist, facilitator, and consultant. They are known for work surrounding crisis services, public health impact and social policy. They provide consultation around crisis alternatives, peer run respites, peer run warmlines, peer support supervision & harm reduction. Nze has past experience in housing, D31, clinical substance use counseling, and population-specific SUD program development for Black and Brown communities.

Nze is currently the Executive Director at SOAR Case Management, overseeing Solstice House Peer Run Respite & Peer Run Warmline in Madison, WI. They also work as a Technical Assistance Consultant for PRCoE (Peer Recovery Center of Excellence) and Harm Reduction Equity Consultant for PeerPride. Nze centers the historical and ongoing truths of psychiatric survivors in their work, believing our stories hold power, community is our home, and pride is a path to liberation.

This is part of Doors to Wellbeing's Peer Specialist Webinar Series.