Multi-session courses
Broken Crayons Still Colour
In collaboration with IMH's Early Psychosis Intervention Programme
A 6-part course on recovery from psychosis — co-produced by people in recovery, mental health professionals, and caregivers. Now living where it can serve best: at IMH's Early Psychosis Intervention Programme.
About
Broken Crayons Still Colour
is a 6-part course on the everyday realities of living with and recovering from psychosis — the biological, the psychological, and the deeply human. Built around real conversations rather than clinical explanations, each session combines presentations, small group discussions, and interactive activities that make room for the full complexity of what recovery actually looks like.
The course was co-produced by people in recovery, mental health professionals, and caregivers — because psychosis touches more than one person, and understanding it takes more than one kind of knowing. After five runs and 153 unique participants, SOAR made a deliberate decision: Broken Crayons Still Colour belongs at IMH's Early Psychosis Intervention Programme, where it has been adopted as part of Club EPIP, their flagship psychosocial programme. That's where its audience lives. That's where it can do the most good.
Who this course was designed for
Broken Crayons Still Colour was designed for anyone whose life has been touched by psychosis — regardless of which side of it they're standing on.
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People in recovery from psychosis who want to make sense of their experience and find language for what they've been through
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Caregivers, family members, and friends walking alongside someone in recovery and looking for honest, practical understanding
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Anyone curious about psychosis who wants to move beyond headlines and into something more human
The course is currently run through IMH's Early Psychosis Intervention Programme. To find out more or register, reach out to the EPIP team directly.
How Broken Crayons Still Colour Began
Recovery doesn't end when you leave a clinical programme. For many people, that's when the real work begins — and when the right community matters most.
Florence knew this firsthand. Before SOAR, she was a client at IMH's Early Psychosis Intervention Programme — and later, a peer support specialist working within it. When she moved on from EPIP in 2018, she carried something with her: a deep respect for the colleagues she had worked alongside, and a conviction that the relationship didn't have to end just because her role had changed.
Broken Crayons Still Colour was one of the first things they built together — a prototype of what co-production could look like between a ground-up initiative and a clinical programme.
People in recovery, mental health professionals, and caregivers in the same room, building something none of them could have built alone. It predates Flourishing. It predates much of what SOAR has become. In many ways, it is where SOAR learned what co-production actually feels like in practice.
More than five runs and 153 participants later — and counting, because the EPIP team now runs Broken Crayons Still Colour every year as part of Club EPIP — it remains one of SOAR's longest and most fruitful collaborations. When EPIP adopted it as their flagship psychosocial programme, it wasn't a handover. It was a homecoming.
What this course sets out to do
Broken Crayons Still Colour is designed to move participants from fear and misunderstanding — toward honest, grounded knowledge of what psychosis is and what recovery from it can look like.
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Build a clear, human understanding of psychosis — its causes, its symptoms, and its journey
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Explore what recovery looks like in everyday life — not as a destination, but as an ongoing process
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Develop practical skills for supporting someone in recovery — with empathy, without overstepping
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Navigate the real questions around disclosure — when to share, how to share, and with whom
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Strengthen the relationships that make recovery possible — between people in recovery, caregivers, and the community around them
What to expect:
A community of people who have been there
people in recovery, caregivers, and curious minds — each bringing a different perspective, all learning together
A space designed for real conversations
not just polite ones — about what psychosis is, what recovery looks like, and what it takes to keep going
Light refreshments
because the best conversations happen when everyone's comfortable
A Note On Where To Find This Course
Broken Crayons Still Colour is now part of Club EPIP, IMH's Early Psychosis Intervention Programme. SOAR made the deliberate decision that this is where the course belongs — where it can be closest to the people it was designed for, with the clinical infrastructure to support them well. We're proud to have co-created something that found its right home.
To register or find out more, contact the EPIP team at IMH directly.
