Who Are We?

News: November 2011
We have now appointed Linden Lynn to lead Recovery Devon into the next phase of its journey.
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Recovery Devon is:
a group open to all, that includes people with lived experience of mental distress and their supporters and family, alongside mental health practitioners.

The group works in partnership to promote the philosophy and practice of Recovery oriented approaches to support improved mental health and wellbeing.

We meet at two monthly intervals to explore Recovery ideas, focused around hope, empowerment, acceptance, inclusion and living a meaningful life, whether or not there are ongoing difficulties.

We have many active members and currently also have a small Task Group.

Our Task Group

This group works on administrative tasks, follows up items from Recovery Devon meetings and prepares suggested agendas for forthcoming meetings.

We aim for the task group to comprise equal numbers of health practitioners (experts by training) and people with lived experience of mental illness and their familes and supporters (experts by experience).

We always welcome volunteers to help with Recovery Devon activities. 

The task group currently comprises:
Russ Drayton, Linden Lynn, Ann Ley, Geof Lynn and Elaine Hewis

Website Group

There has also been a small group working with Ben Roberts on the new website, comprising:
Ann Ley, Tim Ley, Geof Lynn, Linden Lynn and Glenn Roberts

Special Thanks

We owe special thanks to Laurie Davidson and Glenn Roberts, who helped establish Recovery Devon and have supported it ever since.

Our thanks also go to Richard Brabrook, who created and maintained the original Recovery Devon website, and Ben Roberts, of Atomic Antelope, who set up the new one.