Creating conversations that lead to change

Supporting people to connect, explore, reflect and lead… to transform approaches to mental health as individuals, services and communities.

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About us

Facilitators, researchers and consultants who amplify lived and living experience

We draw on diverse understandings of the nature of mental distress, to inform more creative, inclusive, person-led responses.

what we do

We co-design and co-deliver projects, research and education that aim to transform understandings of, and responses to, mental distress and social and emotional wellbeing

Customised Trainings

Tailored programs designed with and for your team to transform understanding, build knowledge, practice skills and enhance connection, informed by lived and living experience.

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Projects and Consulting

Collaborative support for services and organisations seeking to embed lived expertise and to develop innovative approaches and resources that create meaningful change.

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Events and Workshops

Engaging thought-provoking sessions at the leading edge of alternative approaches, that spark reflection, dialogue and exploration of a diverse range of mental distress experiences.

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Consumer Perspective Supervision Courses

CPS training that supports discipline specific supervision practice development for mental health consumer/peer workers working in lived and living experience roles.

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Alternatives to Suicide

Peer-to-peer mutual support groups (held online) that provide a space for talking about, sitting with, understanding and moving through suicidal thoughts and experiences.

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Our Own Words book and podcast

A compelling and illuminating anthology of first-person accounts of living with, through and beyond mental distress and extreme states that honours the diversity of people’s experiences and meaning-making.

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Let’s start a conversation

You may want to find out more about our current workshops and events or let us know what you’d like to see on offer. Or perhaps you’d like to find out what we can do to assist your service or organisation, or propose a potential project or partnership.

We’d love to hear from you!

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