Elevating the Lived Experience Voice – Being Agents of Change

Workshop for the CPSLE workforce with lived experience.

Description

Aim

This workshop will provide the CPSLE workforce an opportunity to deepen their understanding of Lived Experience roles in the Mental Health and Addiction sector and the principles that drive them. Based on the foundations built over time with the history of the Lived Experience movement. It will build on our commitment to te Tiriti o Waitangi and the human rights approach that is at the foundation of the Lived Experience movement by exploring advocacy – what is it and what does it mean in this space – being agents of change.


Learning Intentions

  • Ability to articulate the difference between the Lived Experience roles

  • Incorporate Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the human rights principles into practise

  • Understanding advocacy – individual, systemic and self-advocacy

  • Identifying opportunities for change 


Who Should Attend

This workshop is for the CPSLE (Consumer, Peer Support, Lived Experience) workforce who have lived experience.


Facilitated by Dr Annie Southern 

PhD HSc, MA, GradDipLT, Cert HE

Dr Annie Southern was educated at Oxford University and has a PhD in Health Science from the University of Canterbury. She is a researcher and writer and is well published, with her work spanning both journalism/publishing and mental health fields. Annie uses her lived experience of both neurodiversity and alternative states of reality as part of her work and is an Intentional Peer Support international trainer, Hearing Voices that are Distressing trainer and a professional member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She is managing director of Kaitiaki Marama/Lightkeepers Ltd an Indigenous lived experience social enterprise.


More Workshops in this Series:

CPSLE Allies - Elevating the Lived Experience Voice (Webinar 1)

CPSLE Allies - Elevating the Lived Experience Voice (Webinar 2)

 

 

Terms and Conditions

  • MHERC reserves the right to cancel a workshop at any time due to unforeseen circumstances or insufficient registrations.

Please read our full Terms and Conditions before registering.