LIVED EXPERIENCE ENGAGEMENT
Transforming mental healthcare into practices based on evidence, beneficence and human rights, people with lived experience must be placed at the center of policy and action.
We have gained global recognition as an organisation and source of diverse lived experience expertise. We are often invited to participate in local, international and high-level discussion platforms, and to review and provide strategic and technical guidance into policies, reports and related documents.
Working & Engaging with Persons with Lived ExperienceWe place an emphasis on meaningful and authentic lived experience engagement, and offer recommendations as to how this can be achieved, for example through reasonable accommodations.
We developed a set of considerations for those who are or plan to work and engage with (us) persons with lived experience with mental health conditions, which will help us to be more productive, effective and efficient. These measures can specifically assist in reducing anxiety, help manage concentration and memory problems, and improve confidence. Most importantly, we will feel valued and respected. 
|
| ||||
Lived Experience Representation
|
We are represented on various international Boards and Committees, providing lived experience perspectives, these include: Healthy Brains Global Initiative; Movement for Global Mental Health; World Psychiatry Association; Countdown Global Mental Health 2030; Global Mental Health Action Network; Speak Your Mind Global Campaign; Human Rights in Mental Health-FGIP.
We have been involved in a number of research projects and reports. |
|
Our Founder/CEO, Charlene Sunkel, co-leads The Lancet Commission on Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health, with Prof Sir Graham Thornicroft, and is a Commissioner on The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Psychosis. She was also involved in The Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development and The WPA/Lancet Psychiatry Commission on the Future of Psychiatry.
High-level Discussions
|
We have participated in high-level meetings, events and discussion platforms, at both national and international levels, where we have provided lived experience perspectives and recommendations to improve mental healthcare and conditions that protects and respects human rights.
|
|
