Aspire Recovery Connection

Aspire Recovery Connection (ARC) is a 100% lived-experience organisation dedicated to changing how society understands, accepts, and embraces people with lived experience of mental and emotional distress. We uphold human rights and strive for radical social inclusion through peer support and advocacy.

We are a team of fifty lived experience practitioners and leaders walking alongside over two hundred community members, providing peer support and therapeutic services as we collectively heal from interpersonal, societal, and systemic trauma. Our training programs draw on the wisdom of the Lived Experience movement, the evidence base underpinning the global shift towards human rights-centred services, and the lived expertise of our team and community. We invite you to consider alternative ways of understanding mental health away from the bio-medical model, and offer valuable practice approaches and tools to bring into your own day-to-day work with people who living with significant distress and healing from trauma.