Just a Thought is a digital mental health service dedicated to providing every New Zealander with free, highly effective online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) courses and psychological tools at a...
Matapiata
Matapiata | Artist in Residence 2023-2024 – Jordan Tane
Introducing Jordan Tane (Ngāpuhi), as Whāriki Artist in Residence. Jordan was instrumental in our 2023 Matariki Huihuinga series, designing and creating stunning artwork to support the maramataka from June 2023...
Te Ara Oranga – the pathway to well being
A collaborative approach between Te Whatu Ora Te Tai Tokerau, two NGO providers (Salvation Army and Odyssey House) A Māori/Iwi Provider- Ngāti Hine Health Trust) and Northland Police. The combined...
The imperative for lived experience leadership
Lived experience leaders are crucial for moving services and systems towards a recovery approach. There is a global imperative for growing lived experience leadership, that needs to translate into change...
Neurodiversity and Mental Health – Introduction to the Equitable Access to Wellbeing Framework
Te Pou have developed the Equitable Access to Wellbeing (EAW) framework to support the workforce in responding to people with learning disabilities.
Addressing the training needs of the lived experience workforce: Sector innovation
There is a current need to find solutions to the training needs of the CPSLE workforce. Two Aotearoa New Zealand organisations have innovated to simultaneously implement the CPSLE competencies and...
Lived Experience Best Practice & Innovation
We are excited to bring you a new series of stories highlighting examples of best practice and innovation from the lived experience workforce and its evidence base. We want to...
Co-teaching
Co-teaching involves facilitation from both lived experience and clinical expertise. In this story, we see how international and local examples of co-facilitation demonstrate the benefit of a co-teaching model in...
Translating lived experience led research
The inaccessibility of lived experience led research is an equity issue. Design thinking can help to address this by finding creative ways to translate research findings into useful and accessible...
Learning from COVID-19
People with lived experience of mental health challenges hold wisdom about how to respond when ‘reality breaks from u