Current Projects
Current Projects
Lived–Living Experience Supervision Project
QLEWN has been engaged by the Queensland Alliance for Mental Health (QAMH) as subject matter experts to inform the design, development, and validation of a Lived–Living (LLE) Experience Supervision Framework and associated training content.
QLEWN will lead LLE consultations, contribute to framework development, co-design content with QAMH, and participate in validation and advisory processes to ensure the integrity, diversity, and nuance of LLE practice is reflected.
This project is funded by the Queensland Mental Health Commission.
Lead Project Consultant: Robyn Priest
Robyn (they/them) is a Lived Experience leader who has been working in peer support since 1997. They have spent the past 18 years working across New Zealand, the United States and its territories, Canada, and Australia. Robyn brings deep expertise in supervising Peer Supporters and Peer Supervisors internationally, and has designed and delivered Peer Supervisor training for more than 12 years. They have also co‑designed a widely used Peer Supervisor Competency framework.
Robyn's Australian work includes keynote presentations, sector training, and recent consulting and supervision projects with organisations such as STEPS Sunshine Coast, Peach Tree Perinatal Wellness, and MHLEPQ.
Project Consultant: Donna Humphrey
Donna (she/her) is a Lived Experience leader and Peer Practice supervisor. With 14 years' sector experience, Donna has extensive expertise in designing and delivering training and workforce development initiatives. She specialises in embedding trauma‑informed and Lived Experience principles to strengthen workplace systems, culture, and wellbeing.
Lived Experience Workforce Development Project
In early 2024, QLEWN partnered with the seven Queensland PHNs in a project aimed at building the PHNs’ capability to embed the Lived Experience workforce across their commissioning cycle.
This supports all Queensland PHNs in addressing responsibilities identified by the National Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Development Guidelines, and Lived Experience Workforce Development in Mental Health: A Planning Resource for Primary Health Networks.
This project will see ways of working with LLE Expertise brought to the PHN environment with greater clarity and intention than ever before.
Project Consultant: Liz Asser
Liz (she/her) is a Lived Experience consultant and supervisor. She trains and mentors Peer Workers, drawing on her extensive experience as a community sector worker in employment services, alcohol and other drugs, and youth work.
Liz is a skilled researcher, author, and presenter, offering consultancy and supervision services across human service-oriented professional settings.
Co-designing a Code of Ethics for the Queensland Lived Experience Workforce
We're proud to partner with Brook RED in bringing together Queensland Lived Experience workers to co-design a Code of Ethics/Practice and accompanying guidance tools for the statewide LLE workforce.
This work is part of the Better Together Lived–Living Experience Workforce Project funded by the Queensland Mental Health Commission in response to calls to strengthen, support, and ethically ground the LLE workforce across Queensland.
Co-design will include a combination of online and in-person sessions, including opportunities for regional, rural, and remote participation. Co-facilitators from Brook RED and QLEWN will use relational, trauma-informed, and accessible approaches in these sessions.
Project Consultant: Nicola Akeroyd
Nicola (she/her) is an independent Lived Experience consultant with expertise in perinatal and infant mental health, and Lived Experience workforce development and sustainability. She is committed to embedding Lived Experience principles in strategy and policy, and creating ways of working that support Lived Experience fidelity and worker wellbeing.
Nicola is a mental health advocate in co-design and consumer advisory groups, and participates in research projects from both personal and carer lived experience perspectives.