About the workshop:

Lived experience continues to gain momentum as organisations and community are becoming more included to listen, learn from and walk alongside different communities. Getting involved can be empowering whether it’s in the real of advocacy, participating in co-design, sittings on boards or grassroots activism in community. This half-day workshop will provide you with an introduction to using lived experience to contribute towards governance in varying capacities.

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is for anyone that identified as having lived experience of mental health issues and/or distress, social issues and injustice and wants to influence change in mental health, social services, or disability sectors. The content is introductory, and created for people who are new to using or wanting to use their lived experience in governance spaces such as steering groups, boards or other strategic governance spaces.

Themes covered:

Intro to governance and terminology
Legal responsibilities of board members
Foundations of high quality governance
Reflecting on skills and goals

Structure of the day:

This is an interactive facilitated workshop that will include presentation of information by the facilitator(s), large and small group discussions and reflective exercises. The knowledge, skills and diverse experiences of participants will be drawn on to create an environment of dialogue, shared learning and community.

Workshop facilitator:

The lead facilitator for this workshop will be Emrys Temple-Heald (He/Him/They), Peer Project Worker.

You can learn more about the LELAN team at www.lelan.org.au/our-people.

How this session fits within the broader LEDGE Project:

What is LEDGE? It stands for Lived Experience Development, Governance and Education Project. It is a large project that is focused on increasing skills, knowledge, confidence and the overall capacity of the Lived Experience Community in South Australia.

These two days are a shortened and adapted version of the entire LEDGE training suite so that it can be delivered in a workshop format for regional locations. Participants can still access and enrol in the online modules here if they want to consolidate their knowledge, refresh or explore further areas a bit deeper.

More information about the Lived Experience Development, Governance & Education (LEDGE) Project that this workshop is a component of can be accessed here.

*If you have not registered for the 'Sharing Stories Safely' online module, or have not completed this previously with LELAN, we encourage you to do so.

The 'Sharing Stories Safely' content will encourage reflection on how we manage our own needs and boundaries but will also explore strategies for caring for others when sharing our stories. This will provide a foundation to work from leading into the workshop days. For more information or to register for this online please click here.