The Lived-Living Experience Workforce Project is a Queensland-wide initiative focused on strengthening and ethically grounding the Lived-Living Experience (LLE) workforce.
Led by Brook RED and funded by the Queensland Mental Health Commission (QMHC), the project is part of the state’s Better Care Together plan, and responds to calls to better recognise, support, and guide lived experience work across diverse roles, settings and communities.
At the centre of this work is the development of a Lived-Living Experience Code of Ethics/Practice and accompanying guidance tools, shaped through co-design with people who bring lived and living experience of mental health challenges, suicidality, alcohol and other drug use, and caring. If you are in the Queensland LLE-Peer workforce and are interested in participating, click here.
Alongside this, the project will deliver a state-wide Continuous Professional Development (CPD) calendar, designed to support learning, reflection, and skill-building across the LLE workforce. CPD offerings will be developed in collaboration with lived experience-led organisations and will reflect diverse perspectives, practice contexts, and regions. Activities and sign-up information will be posted here as they are confirmed.
We start from a simple position: lived experience is not an “input” to systems change – it is the lens through which ethical, meaningful change must be imagined and led. This project is grounded in relationships, diversity, and shared responsibility, and aims to support ethical practice and ongoing learning that reflect the real-world contexts in which lived experience work happens.
