From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World

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Focusing on metalworking from 1400–1800 CE, Smith looks at the nature of craft knowledge and skill, studying present-day and historical practices, objects, recipes, and artisanal manuals. From these sources, she considers how we can reconstruct centuries of largely lost knowledge. In doing so, she aims not only to unearth the techniques, material processes, and embodied experience of the past but also to gain insight into the lifeworld of artisans and their understandings of matter. recovery vision: RCOs enhance the support for people seeking recovery and those in long-term recovery, recognising that there are many pathways to recovery As they typically grow in response to local needs, peer-led initiatives tend to be diverse and inclusive organisations with reach into the local community. Their asset-based approach means that LEROs often work in partnership with local community organisations and groups such as faith, women’s and ethnic minority groups. This partnership work can open up pathways between communities and LEROs. Reducing stigma

Recovery has a positive effect on individual people and those closest to them. It also has a positive impact on society. A UK survey of addiction recovery experiences found this includes reduced pressures on health, social and justice services and improved productivity (Best and others, 2015). Recovery is not only about stopping problematic behaviour, it’s also about wellbeing and making a positive contribution to society. For example, the survey found that people in recovery are twice as likely to volunteer as other members of the public.LEROs are independent organisations led by people with lived experience of drug and alcohol recovery, for the benefit of the recovery community. Independent and autonomous Recovery communities are networks of people in recovery, their families and friends, recovery-focused organisations and support groups. Recovery-oriented system of care Figure 1 is a Venn diagram that outlines the roles of treatment services, RSS and LEROs by highlighting the core function of each, and the overlaps between their functions in the provision of recovery-oriented care. It can help you see the distinct and shared functions of each service type and how these services can improve care for people affected by problem alcohol or drug use, by working together. It does not provide an exhaustive list of all the interventions provided by each service type. The 3 circles represent: Granfield R and Cloud W. Coming clean: Overcoming addiction without treatment. New York University Press, 1999.

a range of non-structured interventions that run alongside or after structured treatment and are designed to reinforce the gains made in structured treatment and improve the client’s quality of life in general. Recovery support can include mutual aid and peer support, practical help such as housing or employment support.Peer-delivered and peer-led interventions have been described and evaluated in a wide range of settings. This includes in: The lived experience of a peer volunteer or worker helps to overcome the power difference that often exists in the relationship between a clinician and the person they are supporting (Collins and others, 2019). Peer support also links people into the recovery community and its recovery-supportive social networks and other kinds of support. It benefits not only individuals but also the recovery community and wider community when people offer peer support to each other. Where peer support is available social capital: examples of this include peer support, and family, friends, social networks and opportunities that support recovery A lived experience recovery organisation ( LERO) is an organisation led by people with lived experience of drug and alcohol recovery. LEROs deliver a range of harm reduction interventions, peer support and recovery support services and they can help people to access and engage in treatment and other support services.