Multi-session courses
Striking Matches
Psychosis, explored honestly
for anyone ready to understand it from the inside out.
About
Striking Matches is a course on psychosis
what it is, what it feels like, and what it takes to navigate it, whether you're living with it yourself or walking alongside someone who is. Each session combines evidence-based knowledge with honest, personal storytelling, giving participants language and tools for something that is often misunderstood and rarely talked about openly.
What makes Striking Matches different is who builds it and who shows up. Co-produced by people in recovery, mental health professionals, and caregivers, the course holds multiple perspectives in the same room — because psychosis affects more than one person, and understanding it takes more than one kind of knowing. The sessions are modular, so you can join what speaks to where you are right now.
Who this course was designed for
Striking Matches was designed for anyone who wants to understand psychosis better — from wherever they're standing.
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People living with psychosis or early psychosis who want to make sense of their experience and find practical ways to navigate it
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Caregivers, family members, and friends walking alongside someone with psychosis and looking for language, tools, and perspective
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Anyone curious — mental health advocates, students, community members — who wants to understand psychosis more honestly than mainstream narratives allow
If psychosis has touched your life in any way — directly or indirectly — there's something here for you.
How Striking Matches Began
Psychosis is one of the most misunderstood mental health conditions — and one of the least talked about. Most people encounter it through headlines, not human beings.
Striking Matches grew from a desire to change that. Born in 2021 — in the middle of a pandemic that had already made everything harder — the course was co-produced by people in recovery, mental health professionals, and caregivers who believed that honest, community-based conversations about psychosis were not just possible, but necessary.
In collaboration with IMH's Early Psychosis Intervention Programme, the course found its first participants and its first voice.
What emerged was something that grew beyond its original design — extended by popular demand into Striking Matches Lite to meet participants where they were during an already difficult season. That responsiveness is still part of what Striking Matches is: a course that listens as much as it teaches.
What this course sets out to do
Striking Matches is designed to move participants from the edges of understanding psychosis — to something more honest, more human, and more useful.
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Build a clear, grounded understanding of what psychosis is — and what it isn't
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Develop practical skills for reaching out to and supporting someone experiencing psychosis
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Explore what recovery and reintegration look like — in school, at work, and in everyday life
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Rebuild a sense of self that goes beyond the diagnosis — for people in recovery and those who walk alongside them
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Create space for honest, stigma-free conversations about one of mental health's most misunderstood conditions
What to expect:
A community of people who get it
people in recovery, caregivers, and curious minds — each bringing a different perspective, all learning together
A space where no question is off the table
psychosis is rarely talked about honestly — this course is designed to change that, one conversation at a time
Light refreshment
because the best conversations happen when everyone's comfortable
Questions people often have but don’t always ask
Frequently asked questions
