The Centre for Mental Health Learning invites you to our inaugural Consumer Lived Experience Workforce Online Conference:

 

"Changing Narratives: Shaping Our Collective Integrity"

 

Event Date & Time: Tuesday 26 March, 2024 - 9:30am to 4:30pm
Come together for a day of meaningful discussion, compelling thought trains, empathic nourishment, invigorating connection, hopeful comradery, with a little artistic flair thrown in for good measure! 

 
Join us and a phenomenal line up of Consumer Experts – both local and national – as we share in the values, learnings, needs, knowledge-base, strengths, ethics, and future development of the Consumer Lived Experience Workforce in Victoria. 

 
This day aims to inspire and galvanise our Consumer Workforce collective, setting the scene for cultural and systemic reforms across the sector: creating environments that are informed by Consumer Perspective and led by Consumer Expertise.  

 
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”  
- attributed to Margaret Mead 

 

Program Highlights: 

  • Flick Grey: “Resisting the lure of co-option: the things that ground us and keep us accountable”
  • Simon Katterl & Shona Louis:  “Locating myself: young people, the consumer movement and human rights”
  • Athena Consumer Workforce Consulting:  "Let this radicalise you rather than lead you to despair" - Mariame Kaba
  • Ellie Hodges:  “Lived Experience Leader ≠ Leader with Lived Experience”

 

- PLUS an update on upcoming Lived Experience learning and development projects underway at CMHL

- AND some very special creative guests

 

REGISTER HERE:  https://events.humanitix.com/2024-consumer-workforce-online-conference

 

REGISTRATIONS STRICTLY CLOSE 5PM FRIDAY 22 MARCH 2024.

This is a free event designed for members of the Consumer lived experience workforces (LEW) working in either public clinical or community mental health state-funded roles in VICTORIA ONLY. 

 

 

FORUM AGENDA

Tuesday 26 March, 2024

Session Time:  Session Title: Speaker:  Materials: 
9.20am

"Pre-Show"

ZOOM Doors Open

  
9.30am

"Overture"

- Welcome to Country

- Opening of Online Conference

Wurundjeri Council

David Barclay, Eila Lyon - CMHL

 
10.00am

"Opening Number"

KEYNOTE:  

Resisting the lure of co-option: the things that ground us and keep us accountable.

Flick Grey 
11.00amMORNING TEA BREAK  
11.15am

"World Building"

CMHL LLEWs Projects Overview

David Fulton, Alison Hall, Eila Lyon - CMHL 
11.45am

"The Plot Thickens"

KEYNOTE:

Locating myself: young people, the consumer movement and human rights.

Simon Katterl & Shona Louis 
12.45pm

"INTERVAL"

LUNCH BREAK

  
1.45pm

"Entracte"

Poetry

  
2.00pm

"The Big Ballad"

KEYNOTE:

"Let this radicalise you, rather than lead you to despair." - Mariame Kaba

Vrinda Edan, Acting CEO - VMIAC 
3.00pmAFTERNOON TEA BREAK  
3.15PM

"Finale"

KEYNOTE: 

Lived Experience Leader ≠ Leader with Lived Experience.

Ellie Hodges 
4.15pm

"Reprise"

Closing the Day

David Barclay, Eila Lyon - CMHL 
4.30pm

"Encore"

Music

  

 

 


 

The Speakers

Further info to come.

Click here to read the speaker bios