How to Engage Lived Experience Ethically & Effectively
Structure is what makes lived experience matter. The language of lived and cultural experience is everywhere in our sector. The infrastructure to support it ethically, effectively, and sustainably is often not.
Survivors and cultural experts are invited onto stages and never told what happened to what they shared. Organisations state they are centring lived and cultural experience, while the people whose expertise they are drawing on have no defined role, no compensation framework, and no way to know whether anything they contributed actually was utilised or made a difference.
The How to Engage Lived Experience Ethically & Effectively seminar is for leaders and practitioners ready to change that.
Hosted by the Safe & Together Institute – whose own practices form part of the working model – it will give you the frameworks, tools, and language to move your organisation from good intention to genuine structural accountability. You will leave with a clear picture of where you actually stand, and one concrete commitment forward.
Benefits of attending
Experience what extractive practice costs – not just theoretically
Gain a framework for all three levels of lived expert experience / credible expert (LE/CE) engagement
Use the LE Organisational Continuum to locate and name your gaps
Access real operational models from the Safe & Together Institute
Leave with a witnessed commitment to one concrete action
Audience
Senior leaders, service managers, policy advisors, program directors, and decision-makers who are working to shape how their organisations engage lived and cultural experience experts. Content is relevant to the following sectors and services:
- Domestic and family violence
- Government departments and agencies
- Child safety & protection
- Child and family services
- Social care
- Aged care
- Health care