Workshop series

Working with lived experience: exploring practices, challenges and mindsets

Working with lived experience: exploring practices, challenges and mindsets

Overview

In this four-part workshop series, we’ll explore how people with relevant lived experience and expertise can be partnered with to guide anti-oppressive policy and service design and development.

Morgan builds the reflective capability of advocates, designers, and practitioners to enable a deeper understanding of participatory approaches and methods for lived experience inclusion to drive and influence social and systemic change.

Workshop series format

This workshop takes a deep dive into participatory practices and methods and reflects on the role and value of lived experience and expertise in social and systems change contexts.

We use real-world examples to look at how participatory practices are being used in the context of social change. We also explore and interrogate practices in the field such as co-design and co-production.

You’ll come away with a deeper understanding of the rich history and principles of consumer and broader movements and be able to locate your work within this context.

We cannot work with lived experience or participatory methods without interrogating power.

This workshop delves into different models and frameworks of power and explores how we can shift our own practice from ‘doing to and for’ and towards ‘working with and alongside’ affected communities. We also interrogate how power shows up for us in our everyday approaches and practices.

You’ll gain a deeper understanding of the complex power dynamics at play in your work and the organisations and wider systems you work within. You’ll also learn how to identify and articulate your own power and position within different spaces and relationships and discern between different forms of power.

This workshop is for those who want to learn more about ethical storytelling for advocacy. It supports both practitioners and advocates to build their knowledge, skills and confidence in unpacking the ethics of representation and better understand the impacts of sharing personal experiences, stereotypes, and stigma.

We take a deep dive into how people with lived and living experience are often represented through storytelling, the impacts of these representations on people with marginalised identities, and the dangers of the ‘singular narrative’. You’ll receive guidance on ethical storytelling tools and techniques, including how to centre dignity and humanity in the stories we share and tell.

You’ll come away with a deeper understanding of the risks of extractive and exploitative approaches to storytelling and be able to draw from foundational principles of informed consent and discernment when listening to and sharing stories for social change.

This workshop looks at ways to practically translate and integrate participatory and systems approaches as social innovators and embed lived experience inclusion in our everyday work.

It’s also an opportunity for participants to bring their own practice challenges and questions to reflect on with Morgan and peers in a supported space.

You’ll come away knowing how to better communicate the value of lived experience-informed practice approaches, and how to integrate lived experience-informed advocacy and insights into your everyday work.

This workshop series is for those who are:

  • Seeking to develop and strengthen their participatory practice
  • Working with people with lived and living experience
  • Wanting to learn more about how to effectively draw from their own lived and living experience as part of their practice and/or advocacy
  • Setting up or running client, consumer or lived experience advisory groups
  • New or experienced practitioners who haven’t had the chance to reflect on theory and/or practice alongside sector peers (e.g. peer workers, lived experience consultants and advocates).

Attend the workshop series

This 4-part workshop series is delivered online over four weeks.

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Definitely one of the best pieces of professional learning I’ve undertaken.

“I highly recommend this thoughtful and practical course to anyone who wants to improve their approaches to engaging people with lived experience. Over four workshops, Morgan created a brave space for us to explore and understand theory, examine our own practices, learn from each other and fill our tool belts with evidence-informed tools and resources to utilise in our work. Definitely one of the best pieces of professional learning I’ve undertaken.”

– Simon Crabb, Social Ventures Australia

“I highly recommend this thoughtful and practical course to anyone who wants to improve their approaches to engaging people with lived experience.”

– Simon Crabb, Social Ventures Australia

Your questions, answered.

Each of the four parts belonging to the full series can be accessed separately with a smaller time commitment. Each workshop runs for 2-3 hours. For those looking to dive deeper into lived experience inclusion, the full workshop series is recommended, delivered across multiple days and tailored to your needs and requirements.

For either the full series or standalone sessions, in-person workshops are generally for 20-25 participants. Online workshops are usually capped at 30 participants. Larger participant numbers can be accommodated upon request.

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