There is no single definition for recovery. The personal recovery is driven bypeople's lives, subjective experiences of psychotic crisis and challenges the notionof permanent, chronic mental illness. Several types of activities have an impact onrecovery. This paper presents the preliminary results of the twelve hours trainingfocused on the following topics: recovery -- individual experiences, barriers in theprocess of recovery, social and internalised stigma, empowerment, personalstrengths, problem solving, personal recovery plan, life narrative story. Theparticipants found it to be a positive experience: helpful and supportive. They agreedthat talking of their strengths was much useful and made them feel good. In theiropinions' the most important exercise was personal recovery plan which has giventhem the opportunity to establish individual, meaningful life goals, provide themwith hope and self-determination. These results need replication and further work toidentify what were the preconditions for making the training such a valuableexperience and how this could be replicated on a wider basis. [For the complete Volume 12 proceedings, see ED597979.]