Description
What happens when the client of an addictions service later comes back as the CEO? Or when an advocate who spent her 20s in and out of psych hospital is now in charge of some of the biggest changes Victoria's mental health system has ever seen? Or how about groups for people experiencing suicidal thoughts, run exclusively by other people who've 'been there' themselves?In this in-person panel hosted by The Big Feels Club (and 2021 Australian Mental Health Prize winner Honor Eastly) we hear from lived experience experts trying whole new approaches to mental health in Australia, and we tease some of the big changes coming to Victoria’s own mental health system.
Come to the panel to get your brain juices flowing and then stick around to decompress afterwards with a hands-on drawing workshop with artist, cartoonist and feeler of feelings, Sarah Nagorcka AKA Gorkie.
Part of 'Big Feels presents Mental Health Outside the Mainstream', the Big Feels Club host a series of events to get you thinking about how mental health services might look different if they were run by the people who use them.
Categories:
Developing and sustaining lived and living experience workforces (clearinghouse)
Disciplines:
Allied Health,
Lived Experience Workforce,
Medical,
Nursing,
Other
Levels:
Introductory
Lifespans:
Child,
Adolescent,
Youth,
Adult,
Older Persons
11:30 to 12:30 Add to calendar
Black Box Theatre, Science Gallery Melbourne