Ka aalo auloa e vaka, to holo hako moe tonu. When everyone rows together...
Workforce
Manukura | Aaryn Niuapu
Over the past decade, Aaryn Niuapu has championed the same principle across his various roles in the mental health and addiction sector: That the goal of leadership, is to support...
Manukura | Patricia Walsh
Tricia is a proud māmā of four adult children and kuia to sixteen mokopuna. She is most comfortable in the space of mahi tūkino, patu ngākau or soul wounds also...
Kia Tika te Ara – Correcting the Pathway & Toa Mana Taurite – Equity Champions Network
Kia Tika te Ara is 3-day cultural responsiveness program, aimed at increased cultural competency and safety of South Canterbury District Health Board (SCDHB) staff. Equity Champions Network is a group...
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...
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
