Organizations today face a critical challenge:

building resilient, trauma-informed workplaces that support mental health, peer support,
and employee well-being.

Explore our Peer Support, Corporate, Facilitation Skills Training offerings.

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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:

 

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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

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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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Click here to watch this video with Jenn Cusick sharing vision for Luminate Wellness.

 
 
 

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