Mental health matters.
At Luminate Wellness, we recognize that mental health isn’t just an individual journey—it’s woven into our communities and the systems we live in. Our approach focuses on fostering connections that support both personal and collective well-being, helping create resilient, compassionate environments where everyone can thrive together.
Peer support is the cornerstone of our services.
Transform the healthcare, corporate, and education systems by utilizing lived and living experience.
Founder and Lead Trainer of Luminate Wellness
Jenn is an award winning curriculum writer. In 2023 she won the Merlot Awards: Exemplary Classic in the category of Health Sciences for her Post-Secondary Peer Support Training Curriculum textbook.
*MERLOT is an international community of educators, learners, and researchers.
Jenn Cusick
With a deep commitment to peer support, and creating safe trauma-informed workplaces, I founded Luminate Wellness to support organizations foster resilient, compassionate workplaces where everyone can thrive.
About Jenn
organizations jenn has worked with:
Offerings & Services:
Peer Support Training & Consulting
Facilitator Skills Training (skills for delivering any kind of workshop)
Trauma-Informed Leadership
Curriculum development and writing for your specific training
Facilitation Skills Training
Corporate Wellness Workshops
Consulting services for organizations bravely committed to challenging the status quo
Jenn is the curriculum developer and writer for the Provincial Peer Support Worker Training Curriculum on the Peer Connect BC website.
Jenn is the recipient of the 2023 Merlot Classics Award for the BC Campus Post-Secondary Peer Support Training Curriculum.
well-being =
COMPASSION/SELF-COMPASSION
LIVING WITH INTENTIONAL PRESENCE.
A GENERATIVE APPROACH
CULTIVATING COMPASSIONATE CURIOSITY.
TRUE BELONGING
pioneering
Jenn has been working in community mental health for over 25 years.
1999: Jenn began leading one of the first mental health funded peer support programs in the province of BC.
2002: Jenn spearheaded the implementation of a revolutionary mental health recovery program Wellness Recovery Action Plan into the agency she worked for. Now WRAP is offered across Western Canada. Jenn her team of co-facilitators have trained WRAP facilitators across Canada.
2018: Jenn wrote Foundations of Support, a Peer Support training curriculum for Alberta Health Services–Edmonton Zone, and Mental Health Recovery Partners South Island.
2020: Jenn won the contract from the Provincial Government of BC to develop and write the official peer support training curriculum for the province of BC.
2021: The BC Peer Support Training Curriculum is released to the public on July 16th.
2022: The Post-Secondary Peer Support Training text book published
2023: Jenn wins the MERLOT Classic Award for the post-secondary training!
“Jenns work and teaching style in peer support and wrap facilitation, has not only shaped my career, but influenced how I go about my personal interactions. The wisdom I’ve taken away from every training has helped me examine my bias and unpack discomfort. A true nurturer of compassion and empathy.”
-Natalie Miller
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A few months ago I got what I thought was a spam email. It was from MERLOT. MERLOT is an international community of educators, learners, and researchers. They told me that I won the 2023 Classics Award in the category of Health Sciences for the Post-Secondary Peer Support Curriculum manual that I wrote.