An event exploring the value and challenge of sharing a traumatic lived experience. Peers of North Ayrshire Wellbeing & Recovery College will share their recovery stories and Scottish rapper and social commentator Darren McGarvey will explain his thinking on the risks involved in telling a personal story in a public context. 

As part of a course at North Ayrshire Wellbeing & Recovery College, Peer Volunteers and Peer Tutors share their lived experience recovery-focused stories with new students, in an effort to inspire them. 

Darren McGarvey explored oversharing in the age of lived experience as part of his 2024 Edinburgh Fringe show Trauma Industrial Complex. Deconstructing the adversity which brought him to wider public attention – growing up in an alcoholic home before descending into addiction himself – McGarvey looked at the role personal narratives play in both hurting and healing, and examined the risks involved in telling your story publicly.