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No. 02 · A Field Guide · The Insightful Way series
Lived Expertise
A Field Guide to the Distinction That Changes Everything
By Tyshaun Perryman
- Field guide
- 38 pages
- 3 figures
- Glossary and sources
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For recovery coaches and peer support professionals, and the people who hire and train them.
Lived experience and lived expertise are treated by nearly every institution as the same thing. They are not the same thing. One is endured. The other is built.
This is not a research study, and it is not offered as the law. It is a field guide — written so recovery coaches and peer support professionals can see where they stand.
“Lived experience is what happened to you. Lived expertise is what you built from it — and building is a professional act.”
Inside the guide
- 01The Core Distinction
- 02The Four Capacities of Lived Expertise
- 03The Third Tier: Lived Intelligence
- 04The Extraction Problem
- 05Why Peer Recovery Support Has No Career Ladder
- 06Turning Extraction Into Motivation
- 07For Those Without Lived Experience
- 08Sequencing This Framework in a Room
- 09Where Are You Right Now?
- 10Glossary of Terms and Sources
The purpose of these books is awareness. All proceeds support the further development of this work.

