PACFA is thrilled to announce the upcoming "Lived Experience Leadership Series," set to take place from 26th to 28th June 2024. This event marks a significant step in our journey towards learning from lived experience about how we might transform psychotherapy, counselling, and the systems within which we practice to enhance efficacy and inclusivity.

When: 26-28 June 2024, 10 am - 4 pm AEST
Where: Zoom (Recordings available for day 1, No recordings will be available for day 2 and 3)
What: A three-day series of workshops designed to deepen our understanding and practice in the areas of Indigenous Healing Practices, Diversity in Gender, Body, Kinship, & Sexuality (GBKS), and Lived Experience in Mental Health.

Event Highlights:

• Day 1: Indigenous Healing Practices – Explore the resilience, wisdom, and practices of diverse First Nations healing approaches across the continent. Engage with Indigenous Healing Practitioners as they delve into the ongoing impacts from colonisation, navigating pathways to healing through truth-telling and connection. Hear from practitioners regarding programs operating on the ground.
• Day 2: Diversity in Gender, Body, Kinship and Sexuality – Transform your practice and deepen your understanding. Listen, reflect, and expand your capacity to apply nuanced insights from the lived experience leadership and practice wisdom of practitioners with marginalised gender, body, kinship, and sexuality lived experiences working within their own communities.
• Day 3: Lived Experience Leadership in Mental Health Systems Transformation – Be invited into a larger, emergent conversation about how lived experience leadership in mental health system transformation intersects with psychotherapeutic practice, including questions of dignity of risk, alongsidedness and allyship.

Why Attend?

This workshop series goes beyond traditional professional development. It is an urgent call to action for all practitioners passionate about social justice, committed to fostering genuine inclusivity, building cultural safety, and challenging oppression within their practice and the wider community. By participating, you will not only expand your professional toolkit but also align with a mission to create a more empathetic, inclusive, and just society.

This event offers an unparalleled opportunity to engage with leading and often excluded voices, participate in heartfelt dialogues, and contribute to a pivotal movement in mental health care—one that champions the dignity, rights, and rich perspectives of all individuals.

Join Us:

Embrace this chance to challenge your preconceptions, deepen your understanding, and be at the forefront of societal change. Your participation signifies a commitment to personal and professional transformation towards fostering an inclusive future.

CPD Hours: 

Category A CPD hours will be allocated to your PACFA account based on the actual time you spend in the workshop (Up to 15 CPD hours). Please ensure you use your individual link, full name, and the same email address when accessing Zoom as you used for registration.

­­This is a live event; recordings will be available only for day 1 of this workshop. No recordings for day 2 and day 3 will be provided.

Costs:

Early bird ticket (3 April - 20 May) - member price $350 (incl. GST) / non member price $550 (incl. GST)

Standard ticket (20 May - event date) - member price $450 (incl. GST) / non member price $750 (incl. GST)

What to Expect After you Register:

Once registered, your personal Zoom link will be dispatched directly to you via email from Zoom 24 hours and 1 hour prior to the event. Please keep an eye on your inbox for an email from Zoom [email protected]. All future correspondence pertaining to this event, including event certificates, will be communicated through the PACFA email address [email protected]. To ensure a seamless experience, we recommend adding both of these email addresses to your safe sender list to prevent any missed communications. 

Alternatively, you can find the zoom link if you log into your account, under "My events" tab.

Event Cancellations

Customers seeking to cancel their registration more than 5 working days prior to the event date may request a credit to be applied to their account. Cancellations must be made in writing to [email protected]. Cancellations made with less notice than this are non-refundable or exchangeable. Credits will be accessible through the PACFA Portal and are valid for up to a year from the purchase date. This policy is at the discretion of PACFA and may change.

Terms and Conditions

Fireside yarns and spiral chats

This workshop will follow a format first trialed by PACFA at the 2022 Safety Through Diversity Conference. Presenters are renamed Collaborators and each presents a brief overview of their area of interest, before joining a sequential conversation that spirals outwards until Participants (attendees) are also invited to join the conversation.

https://pacfa.org.au/portal/Portal/CPD/Conference-Collaborators/What-is-a-Spiral-Chat.aspx

Community of care guidelines

All Collaborators and Participants are required to commit and adhere to PACFA’s Community of Care Guidelines for online participation.

Anti-oppressive practice

Participants are encouraged to engage with these two QGuides (QLife) that are very helpful for people engaging with their own privilege, power dynamics and oppression, as we all will be during this series of workshops:

https://qlife.org.au/uploads/Privilege-Power-Oppression.pdf

https://qlife.org.au/uploads/Anti-Oppressive-Practice.pdf