Tris Cadman-Gibbings

I am a proud non-binary, queer, neurodiverse person with lived and living consumer experience. I grew up on the unceded lands of the Palawa peoples in Tasmanaia on a small remote community in the bush, before moving to the beautiful lands of the Gumbayngirr peoples in mid north coast new south wales. I have spent the last 16 years living in cities, between Sydney, Melbourne, and London.

Before working in mental helath, I spent 16 years working in hospitality, where i had the privilege to connect with people from all walks of life from accross the world.

I value community, creativity, honesty, openess, diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Above all I also value a sense of humour, and don't take myself too seriously, or expect others too.

When I am not working, I enjoy paying music, art, getting into nature, video games, spending time with my dogs, gardening, and spending time with community.

I have a strong interest in intersectionality, and recognise the privalidge I hold being a white coloniser on the lands of the Wurundjeri peoples. I am open to connecting with anyone, from anywhere, and the opportunities for mutual learning that comes from different world views. I comfortable hold the lenses of regional australian experience, as well as experiences of queer and genderqueer folks in society, as well as in the work we do.

Lived Experience Operational Development Lead

Service Manager

Team Leader

Practitioner

My current role is Lived Experience Operational Development Lead at Mind Australia. This role incorporates:

1. Operations: practice and fidelity, recruiting, supervising, training, and onboarding new lived experience staff. Responding to and supporting incidents and challenges on site.

• Lived experience service design: co-design, lived experience governance, lived experience models of care.
• Advcacy and eduction: presentations, working with external stakeholders, collaborating accross the sector.
• Developing lived experience structures: lived experience frameworks, guidelines, procedures, and policies.
• Intersectionality: I am very involved in the diversity, inclusion, and intersectionality spaces working on equitable systems that enable people with all kinds of lived experience to flourish in the system.
• Working with Busimess partners: Quality, Practice, Governance, and Health Safety and Wellbeing, Human Resources
• Lived Experience Evaluation: Supporting the development and implementation of lived experience outcome measures and evaluations for lived experience led services.

I support two lived experience led services at Mind:

The Peer Healing Space (Fully lived experience residential 'acute' alternative)

Aftercare (LGBTQIA+ Suicide support)

Consumer Perspective Supervision

Intentional Peer Support Core and Managers

Bachelor of Arts - Sydney Universtiy

Graduate Diploma Psychology - Monash University

Melbourne Uni APO Course (Reduction and Elimination of restrictive practices)

Emotional CPR (eCPR)

Intertwine Intersectionality 101

ASIST LGBTQIA+

Affirmative Consent in Mental Health (Gendered violence prevention)

Tans awareness training (Trans awareness VIC)

Cultural Awareness Training

I like to have a relational curious approach to supervision, establishing trust and mutuality. I am anti fragile and treat people as equals who can name if something is off the table for discussion. I like to approach each supervision as it's own experience, life changes so quickly, and in the work we do, what is important one week, might not be the next. I am open to exploring very differnt themes each session depending on what matters to the person, or it might mean really digging into something. I love practice and systems so this is where I tend to lean.

I have a wealth of experience in line management, and since moving into consumer persepctive supervision have spent the last few years unlearning a lot of the ways power shows up in line management. My approach to Consumer Perspective Supervision is quite broad, and I take an intersectioal approach to how we experience systemic harms, challenges, and what expertise looks like in these spaces.