Lived Experience Framework - Resources
The following list has been cultivated by the DVA Lived Experience Team. These resources form only part of the research that has gone in to guiding the DVA Lived Experience Framework and related work, and DVA does not necessarily endorse these resources or advise that they are applicable to your work. This list is a work in progress and we will continue to add resources if there is demand for it.
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| Learning Area: Brave Space | |
| Brene Brown's Atlas Hub | An exploration of the 87 emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human |
| Brene Brown's Dare to Lead Hub | Resources for developing Brave Leaders and Courageous Cultures. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes and has the courage to develop that potential. |
| Empathy Misses - Brene Brown | Eight empathic misses that get in the way of connection. |
| Operationalising Your Organization’s Values - Brene Brown | Living into our values is one of the four skill sets that make up Daring Leadership. It means that we do more than profess our values, we practice them. We walk our talk—we are clear about what we believe and hold important, and we take care that our intentions, words, thoughts, and behaviours align with those beliefs. |
| Learning Area: Cultural Competence | |
| A conceptual framework to guide the implementation of best and next practice in services and supports for Veterans and their families by Phoenix Australia 2020 | The Conceptual Framework is intended to progress the conversation and drive further reform work to provide Veterans and their families with the best possible support and care. It is intended to support Veterans mental health systems to commence and / or enhance their own journey towards implementing the new system design, and ensuring high quality and accessible mental health treatment for Veterans and their families. |
| Phoenix Australia Practioner Support Toolkit | Resources for practitioners working with veterans including Veteran Cultural Competence. |
| Learning Area: Leadership | |
| Daring Leadership Assessment - Brene Brown | Daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are teachable, observable, and measurable: Rumbling with Vulnerability, Living into our Values, Braving Trust, and Learning to Rise. The Daring Leadership Assessment will help you gauge your strengths and your opportunities for growth as a daring leader. On average, the assessment takes less than ten minutes, and you will be able to print or email the results to yourself. The site does not store responses or results |
| Learning Area: Leadership | |
| A model of lived experience leadership for transformative systems change: Activating Lived Experience Leadership (ALEL) project | Purpose: This discursive paper presents a lived experience leadership model as developed as part of the Activating Lived Experience Leadership (ALEL) project project to increase the recognition and understanding of lived experience leadership in mental health and social sectors. The model of lived experience leadership was formulated through a collaboration between the South Australian Lived Experience Leadership & Advocacy Network and the Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Research and Education Group. |
| Learning Area: Networks | |
| Finding North Network | An online lived experience community supporting each other to amplify lived experience leadership. |
| Learning Area: Participation and Design | |
| National Mental Health Commission Lived Experience Workforce Guidelines |
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| Learning Area: Participation and Design | |
| NSW Mental Health Commission Toolkit - Employer’s guide to implementing a peer workforce | |
| The Participation Ladder A consumer/survivor lens | This short resource provides a consumer/survivor lens on the ladder of participation, including the difference between each level. It includes:
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| Learning Area: Research and Online Libraries | |
| Lived Experience Advisory Directory | LEAD mission is to empower the Lived Experience workforce to find and grow its unique voice in an exciting and progressive time to be part of the Lived Experience Leadership Movement There are many amazing organisations doing great things in the world of Lived Experience work, and LEAD will be guiding together knowledge from all corners of the movement so that information is in one easily accessible place. |
| Lived Experience Leadership - Lived Experience led research into Lived Experience Workforce development | Lived Experience Leadership provides clear and simple to read research summaries to allow community members and people employed within various industries access to peer-reviewed research findings, usually only available in scientific journals. This material is provided free of charge and can be freely shared, with the goal of allowing more people the opportunity to easily understand and apply contemporary evidence within their own workplace. This website also includes easy to download definitions and audio/visual resources. The website will continue to grow to include larger collections of our research |
| Mental Health Consumer and Carer Forum Lived Experience Library | The Lived Experience Leadership Digital Library is an initiative of the National Mental Health Consumer and Carer Forum and the National Primary Health Network Mental Health Lived Experience Engagement Network with support from Mental Health Australia. Everyone is welcome to this Digital Library, especially those with lived and living experience with all their diverse cultures, perspectives and life experiences. The aim of this Library is to gather a wealth of useful resources about all aspects of lived experience leadership. |
| Pathways for Supporting the 'Not Negotiable' Lived Experience (Peer) Workforces to Thrive | Pathways for Supporting the 'Not Negotiable' Lived Experience (Peer) Workforces to Thrive A scoping paper for formal lived experience expertise training programs and supports |
| Learning Area: Supervision | |
| Lived experience perspective Supervision by Brook Red | Brook RED offers supervision for lived experience practitioners, people supervising peers, human service workers and peer workers in the mental health workforce. They offer individual, group and Communities of Practice |
| Learning Area: Training - Line Managers | |
| Intentional Peer Support (IPS) for Managers | Equipping managers and people working alongside peer workers to understand the IPS framework. The framework will support all participants, irrespective of their role, to reflect on themselves to develop a greater awareness of the relationships they form. The training is posted on SHARC is the Australian hub for Intentional Peer Support (IPS) training. |
| Learning Area: Training - Lived Experience | |
| Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work | This link provides an overview of the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work subjects and electives For a training provider you can follow the links on this website or search for this Certificate in your local area. Dependent on state there are also some subsidies available for this training. You can contact the DVA LE Team for further information |
| For Lived Experience - Safe Storytelling | The Safe Storytelling online workshop teaches participants about purposeful, meaningful and sustainable storytelling, which can help guide interactions that require shared storytelling of lived experience. Participants will be given the chance to craft their own purposeful story and be equipped with the knowledge to understand safe disclosure. This workshop will support learning for those who directly use storytelling in their role. This training is paid. |
| For Lived Experience - Sharing Stories Safely | Sharing stories safely learning outcome: You will have the tools to share your story on your own terms while considering the safety of yourself and others. This training is free. |
| Intentional Peer Support Australia at SHARC | Intentional Peer Support is an exciting way of thinking about and inviting powerful, transformative relationships. Peer workers learn to use relationships to see things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns, and support and challenge each other in trying new things. The training is posted on SHARC is the Australian hub for Intentional Peer Support (IPS) training. |
| Learning Area: Training - Lived Experience Practioners | |
| Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work | This link provides an overview of the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work subjects and electives For a training provider you can follow the links on this website or search for this Certificate in your local area. Dependent on state there are also some subsidies available for this training. You can contact the DVA LE Team for further information |
| Intentional Peer Support Australia at SHARC | Intentional Peer Support is an exciting way of thinking about and inviting powerful, transformative relationships. Peer workers learn to use relationships to see things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns, and support and challenge each other in trying new things. The training is posted on SHARC is the Australian hub for Intentional Peer Support (IPS) training. |
| Introduction to debriefing and reflective practice | By the end of this module, learners will be able to: Describe key definitions, principles, processes and differences between debriefing and reflective practice Identify useful reflective practice questions Know where to go for additional training and resources. |
| Learning Area: Training - Supervision | |
| Introduction to debriefing and reflective practice | By the end of this module, learners will be able to: Describe key definitions, principles, processes and differences between debriefing and reflective practice Identify useful reflective practice questions Know where to go for additional training and resources. |
| LEWP Peer Supervision Training (SA) | LEWP offers a free, two-day training program for experienced people in designated Lived Experience roles in the SA NGO sector, who wish to become Peer supervisors within their organisation. This training is free for non-NGOs but can be approached for Government training opportunities. |
| QLD Centre for Mental Health Learning Supervisior Training (QLD) | This two-day workshop will prepare you for your supervisor role. It is designed for staff from all disciplines including non-clinical areas such as the peer workforce. During this workshop you will explore ways to enhance your supervisor skills using a variety of strategies and tools. Several high-quality skills demonstration videos are shown that model the core elements of good supervision practice. As you deepen your understanding of these elements you will have opportunities to practise delivering supervision that is culturally sensitive. |
| Reflective Practice Peer Supervision (WA) | This is an intensive and fast paced course providing training in Peer-to-Peer discipline specific supervision (as distinct from line management or clinical supervision), by and for the mental health consumer / Peer Workforce in WA |