Peer Volunteer — Mad Skills for Life

How do you survive, soften, rage, rest, cope, connect, and keep going in this wild world?

We’re building Mad Skills for Life — a peer space for the skills people actually use, not just the ones written in workbooks.

Kaleidoscope is looking for a peer volunteer with lived experience using practical coping tools from CBT, ACT, DBT, mindfulness, grounding, values work, emotional regulation, or other survival skills in their own life.

We’re building a new peer-run group called Mad Skills for Real Life — a space for people who want tools that actually help when life is intense, messy, overwhelming, confusing, or just a lot.

This group is not about fixing people. It is not about pretending coping skills solve everything. It is about dialogue, peer wisdom, shared practice, and making useful mental health knowledge more accessible.

A lot of helpful mental health tools are locked behind systems that not everyone can access — therapy fees, waitlists, referrals, diagnoses, program criteria, academic language, and professional gatekeeping. We want to help change that.

Mad Skills for Real Life is about bringing practical tools back into community. We are volunteering our time to run this program because we believe people deserve access to skills, language, and support that can help them navigate hard moments, big emotions, relationships, stress, values, boundaries, and everyday life.

But accessibility is not only about removing cost. It is also about making space for people to question, adapt, personalize, reject, reshape, and practice tools in ways that actually fit their lives.

This is a peer support role, not a clinical therapy role. Volunteers are not expected to diagnose, treat, provide counselling, give clinical advice, or act as experts. We are looking for lived wisdom, humility, warmth, and realness — not someone who feels like they have all the answers.

The group will be co-led by an MSW/RSW/Certified Peer Supporter and trained peer supporters. This is not a clinical therapy group, a formal DBT/CBT/ACT program, or a replacement for counselling, treatment, or crisis support.