Mental Health Webinar 8 // The Power in Lived Experience in Mental Health

[Ru-bee]

Join us for our next mental health recovery webinar: The Power in Lived Experience in Mental Health. 

🗓️ When: Wednesday 29th January 7-8 pm (AEDT)  

👩🏻 Featuring: Tim Heffernan – Lived Experience Deputy Commissioner, NSW Mental Health Commission  

In this FREE 60-minute community webinar, Tim Heffernan; Lived Experience Deputy Commissioner, NSW Mental Health Commission, will share his experiences as a Lived Experience leader within Australia’s mental health system and beyond. This webinar is a safe and welcoming space where you will have the opportunity to connect with like-minded people and gain valuable insights about: 

• How our healthcare system could look with more lived experience peer workers. 

• What lived experience peer workers are doing to drive policy and legislative change in Australia. 

• The different ways that lived experience peer workers are contributing to societal change and stigma reduction. 

Includes a 20-minute Q&A session.  

About Tim 

Tim is the Lived Experience Deputy Commissioner at the Mental Health Commission of NSW. He is an experienced Consumer Peer Worker and is current chair of Being (NSW Consumer Advisory Group). He was co-Chair of the National Mental Health Commission’s National Stigma and Discrimination Reduction Strategy Steering Committee and Deputy co-Chair of the National Peer Workforce Development Guidelines Steering Committee. This year Tim joined the Official Visitor's Program.  

Tim worked for five years in an identified Lived Experience position as Peer Coordinator with COORDINARE, the South Eastern NSW PHN and he is a founding member of the Illawarra Shoalhaven Suicide Prevention Collaborative. In 2013 he was awarded a scholarship to attend Boston University’s Global Leadership Institute to develop a seclusion and restraint reduction project, Safety for All.   

An award-winning poet, Tim co-edits on online space for ‘Mad’ writing, ‘Clozapine Clinic – The Frater Project’ in the influential Australian journal ‘Verity La’. He has published widely and performed his poetry at the Wollongong Writers Festival, the Queensland Poetry Festival, the Big Anxiety Festival and at Mad Pride. 

Register for this FREE community event HERE [https://sane-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ageI0Ta3Rdy-eCU8pe6yyA] 

After registering, you'll receive a confirmation email with webinar access details.  

We hope to see you there!  

SANE Forums Team 

[Ru-bee]

@MJG017 @Snowie @Shaz51 @HelloKitty1981 @RubyJones @Oaktree @defaultusername @IceSkater @PeppyPatti Just tagging those who may be interested in this topic, please feel free to add others who I may have missed! Really looking forward to watching this webinar 😁

[MJG017]

Thanks @Ru-bee, this sounds interesting.  I look forward to it.

[IceSkater]

Amazing thanks @Ru-bee 

[ElephantEar3]

Hey members,

If you would like to ask anything of Tim (who is a fascinating person with a really diverse life experience), pop them in here and we can raise them on the night for you. 

You can always post them in the live chat too on the night, but I know that isn't for everyone.

[Blackcloud]

Thanks @Ru-bee @I’ll definitely be joining this upcoming session! 🙂 

[Sekhmet]

Will there be a recording of this webinar? I would really love to watch it but I won’t be able to watch it in real time 

[rav3n]

hey there @Sekhmet all our webinars are recorded so no stress if you can't make the live one! the recordings are usually available a week after the live sessions 😊

[Sekhmet]

Thank you so much, that’s a relief to hear! 

[chibam]

I'd really love to participate in this, but I suspect I won't be able to. It sounds like we're getting storms this evening, which means I have to disconnect all the technology in the house. ☹️