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This work focuses on moments of knowledge construction of “peer trainers” living with psychic disorders, members of a learning community where they produce their self-narrative to be able to practice in training sessions. The question is to see how a lexical analysis can help in the exploration of the traces produced by shedding light on the mechanisms at work. This involves (1) an analysis of writings based on the question “What did you learn from the illness?” (2) an analysis of the verbatims produced by the group with a view to creating a skills reference framework. This work highlights the complementarity between the collective exchange which allows the thematization and explanation of knowledge and the individual writing. It reveals differentiated strategies and narrative regimes, for example descriptive, biographical, or metaphorical.