The voice of lived experience offers insight, wisdom and perspective foundational to best practice for postvention support services. This panel style, conversational presentation will honour and amplify the voice of lived experience. It will help audiences to understand the value of integrating lived experience throughout postvention services, to ensure we are working “together towards tomorrow.”
The presentation will discuss a 5-year timeline of StandBy - Support after Suicide. From 2019 and introduction of the first Lived Experience Advisory Group until 2025, with a lived experience manager leading a team at the National office and a growing lived experience peer workforce across the country. This has offered a valuable perspective to guide the development and growth of service provision resources and guiding policy change.
The presentation will be engaging, in its relaxed style with real life stories that will inform, educate, empower and give audiences knowledge and skills to make change in their own communities and organisations. It will address unconscious bias, acknowledge intersectionality and understand the role that lived experience plays in bridging the gap between those bereaved and the services supporting them.
This panel style presentation will delve into the background of lived experience, the preconceived ideas and have robust conversations surrounding lived experience in the workforce and how to approach conversations and concerns.
This presentation is committed to tackling the tough conversations and will invite audiences to ask the question they’ve always wanted to ask, in a safe and inclusive environment.
It will be a rich hour of sharing from our panelist’s and audiences, who by engaging are in the very essence working “towards together tomorrow”.
This will be of interest to those with a lived experience and those looking to have greater understanding of lived experience as a versatile resource and how to best partner with this workforce to impact innovative change. There will be learnings for workplaces in both the postvention and prevention sectors and how they work towards a more lived experience inclusive workplace.