Second Haven is seeking a Peer Support Specialist to act as an Advisor for the design and implementation of guided group adventures and community activities. Our mission is to design group experiences that are emotionally thoughtful, socially inclusive, and accessible to a wide range of participants. Volunteers in this role will offer a peer-support-informed lens to the design and facilitation of quests, helping ensure that experiences are not only creative and engaging but also welcoming, well-paced, and responsive to the needs of players who may be navigating anxiety, fatigue, disability, chronic illness, emotional stress, or social uncertainty.
This role is ideal for someone who understands how group experiences can affect people differently and who can help design activities that foster belonging, confidence, and meaningful participation rather than pressure, confusion, or overwhelm.
Role Summary
The Peer Support Advisor helps guide the social and emotional design of Second Haven’s group adventures. This may include advising on how quests are structured, how instructions are delivered, how challenge and support are balanced, how players are welcomed into an activity, and how group experiences can better accommodate different energy levels, comfort levels, and styles of participation.
This role is part peer-support-informed advisor, part accessibility-minded designer, and part facilitator support. A strong person in this role can help identify social or emotional friction points that others may miss and offer practical suggestions for making adventures feel more inclusive, grounded, and humane.
Depending on the person’s background and availability, this role may also include occasional co-facilitation or support during live activities. However, its central purpose is to help ensure that the experiences we create are shaped with care.
What This Role May Involve
The Peer Support Advisor may:
- Advise on the design of guided group quests, adventures, and community activities
- Help identify ways an activity might feel confusing, excluding, overstimulating, or emotionally difficult for some participants
- Suggest design choices that support inclusion, clarity, emotional safety, pacing, and flexible participation
- Help shape quest flow so that players are more likely to feel oriented, engaged, and meaningfully included
- Offer feedback on how instructions, roles, expectations, and group tasks are introduced
- Help facilitators think through how to support players who are anxious, hesitant, low-energy, new to the group, or uncertain about how to participate
- Recommend ways to reduce unnecessary pressure, social ambiguity, or competitive dynamics when appropriate
- Help build in moments of orientation, encouragement, cooperation, reflection, or low-pressure engagement
- Support facilitators in recognizing group dynamics that may affect participation and belonging
- In some cases, co-facilitate activities or consult with Quest Guides, Event Hosts, or other volunteers about participant support needs
What We’re Looking For
A strong Peer Support Advisor is someone who:
- Has experience in peer support, supportive group settings, community care, mentoring, or another closely related area
- Understands how emotional, cognitive, social, or physical barriers can affect participation
- Can think thoughtfully about what helps people feel included, safe, and able to engage at their own pace
- Has good judgment about group dynamics and interpersonal experiences
- Can offer practical, grounded suggestions rather than only abstract ideas
- Communicates clearly, kindly, and collaboratively
- Understands that accessibility is not just physical or technical but also social and emotional
- Can help others think through how an activity will actually feel from the participant’s point of view
- Is comfortable working alongside facilitators, designers, and volunteers with different kinds of strengths
Empathy and understanding regarding socially isolating conditions is essential for this role. Familiarity with Minecraft is helpful but not required. What matters most is the ability to bring a thoughtful, peer-support-informed perspective to the design and guidance of shared experiences.
Why This Role Matters
Second Haven is designed for people whose lives may include chronic illness, disability, fatigue, pain, mental health challenges, or other barriers to consistent social connection. A quest or group activity can look exciting on paper and still feel overwhelming, disorienting, or socially uneven once real people step into it.
This role helps close that gap. You’ll join an existing team of Peer Support Advisors and Psychologists who enjoy designing shared adventures with rich stories and engaging challenges.
The Peer Support Advisor helps us think beyond whether an activity is clever or fun and ask whether it is actually supportive, accessible, and emotionally workable for the people we hope to include. Their input can help transform an experience from something that unintentionally leaves people behind into something that invites genuine participation, confidence, and connection.
Support and Structure
This is not a clinical role and does not require providing therapy or crisis intervention unless otherwise specified and formally arranged. In most cases, this is a peer-support-informed advisory and facilitation support role focused on community experiences, participant inclusion, and thoughtful activity design.
The person in this role may collaborate with quest designers, facilitators, moderators, Event Hosts, Minecraft Mentors, or other volunteers depending on the activity and the needs of the community.
Time Commitment
Time commitment may vary depending on the volunteer’s availability and the current stage of activity planning. This role may involve occasional consultation on new quests and adventures, periodic feedback on planned events, and in some cases support during live activities (optional).