Empowering Peer Entrepreneurs: A Training Series for Lived Experience Leaders

CAFÉ TAC invites you to view Empowering Peer Entrepreneurs: A Training Series for Lived Experience Leaders, a transformative four-part training series designed to equip individuals with lived experience of mental health conditions—including peer support specialists—with the tools, confidence, and strategies to explore entrepreneurship as a pathway to financial independence and community impact.

Through interactive learning and intentional community space, participants:

• Gain practical knowledge and strategies to develop authentic, innovative entrepreneurial efforts
• Understand the importance of ethics, accessibility, and cultural humility in peer-centered business practices
• Explore how personal values align with professional ethics to create purposeful, sustainable work
• Engage in peer-to-peer learning, mutual support, and shared wisdom

Training topics include:

• Entrepreneurship for Peer Support Workers – View the recording here
  • Lived Experience -> Skill Translation Worksheet
  • Values-Aligned Entrepreneurship Reflection Tool
• Life Strategy Mapping: Aligning Personal + Professional Purpose – View the recording here
  • Life Strategy Mapping Resource
• Ethics and Cultural Humility for Peer Entrepreneurs – View the recording here
  • Ethics Resource
• Entrepreneurship, Self-Care, and Maintaining Recovery – View the recording here
  • Recovery-Centered Decision Pause Resource

Step into your power, honor your lived experience, and discover what’s possible when recovery, purpose, and entrepreneurship meet.