Experts by experience
Lived Experience.
A half day on involving people with lived experience well: lived expertise, leadership and peer roles, trauma-informed practice, fair payment and sharing power.
- Level
- Explore
- Learning time
- 5 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- Lived Experience
- Price
- £129
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Public service leaders and teams building lived experience involvement
Overview
This half-day programme brings together what lived experience means and how to involve people well. It draws on Baljeet Sandhu's three forms of expertise and Miranda Fricker on epistemic injustice, then explores lived experience leadership, roles on boards and in inspection, and the peer workforce. It turns to the conditions that make involvement safe and fair: storytelling with consent, trauma-informed practice through the Trauma-Informed Wales framework, and fair payment. It confronts tokenism through Arnstein and Beresford, and closes with the Poverty Truth Commission, Social Security Scotland's Experience Panels and Recovery Colleges.
Aims
The aim is to develop leaders who treat lived experience as expertise: building roles from peer support to governance, creating safe and trauma-informed conditions, paying and valuing people fairly, and sharing power so that involvement changes decisions rather than decorating them.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Explain lived experience as a form of expertise and assess how it is treated in your organisation, from feedback roles to leadership and governance.
- Design involvement that is safe and fair, combining trauma-informed practice, ongoing consent and a payment and recognition policy.
- Assess involvement for tokenism and power using Arnstein's ladder, Beresford's models and the 4Pi standards, and plan changes that last.
What you'll develop
Across this Explore, you will develop the ability to:
- Distinguish lived experience, lived expertise and experts by experience, and explain why lived experience is a form of knowledge rather than only feedback.
- Compare governance roles, from reference groups to board seats, and assess what each position can realistically change.
- Explain the four core qualities of peer support and use them to review a peer role in your own organisation.
- Explain why power, control, belief and trust make trauma relevant to engagement, and describe the SAMHSA and Trauma-Informed Wales principles.
- Explain the four reasons for paying people for lived experience work, including how unpaid involvement narrows who takes part.
- Apply the five questions of context, power, conditions, change and transfer to any case of lived experience involvement.
Built from 4 parts.
5 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01Expertise earned the hard wayLived experience leadership explainedBitesize2 modules
- 02A seat that carries weightLived experience in governance and peer workBitesize3 modules
- 03Care, safety and fair rewardTrauma-informed engagement and fair paymentBitesize2 modules
- 04Beyond the token gestureTokenism, power and lived experience in practiceBitesize2 modules
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