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I was born in the Queensland outback and have five siblings. I am a mother of four adult children and have four beautiful grandchildren who just melt my heart. Nowadays I see myself as a ‘city girl’ but my happiest moments are still listening to the sounds of birds calling to each other at the break of dawn.

I currently live in Western Australia and do educational, and advisory work within mental health services and universities. I am a late-diagnosed AuDHDer, which has meant I’ve spent a lifetime developing highly accurate pattern recognition and can go micro and macro in reflections, at incredible speeds. I am big on problem formulation (Carol Bacchi’s WPR Approach)… The ‘problems’ that get ‘solutions’ and attention, the ones that are ignored / unnoticed, and the new ones created out of the ‘solutions’.

I have worked as a peer worker in community and hospital programs, as a NDIS support worker and recovery coach, I have worked as a Recovery College Educator, a sessional lecturer (Lived Experience), research assistant (Lived Experience). I am a Personal Medicine Coach, Alternatives to Suicide Trainer, and work in Lived Experience Advocacy/Advisory roles. I designed Western Australia’s first Peer Supervision course which is now in its sixth iteration.

My allegiances are to human rights, the mad movement, Aboriginal rights and gender liberation. I stand with psychiatric survivors resisting coercive systems with mad pride. I believe in abolishing forced psychiatry and centring lived experience as credible (epistemic) knowledge rather than pathology.

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Peer Support Worker within a public health setting (community as well as a tertiary hospital).

Peer Support Coordinator (tertiary hospital - Manager of peer staff and responsible for all departmental functioning. This role was also to support the Peer Work Coordinator in their functions - including providing Clinical Supervision to selected peer workers)

Peer Work Coordinator (Secondment. Executive level. Responsible for all peer support workers placed within community and hospital settings as well as Cert IV Peer Work Students on placement. This role also includes providing Clinical Supervision and debrief to Peer Support Workers ).

Volunteer Facilitator in Alternatives to Suicide Groups. This role is listening deeply to distress and thoughts of suicide. Participating in after group debrief and co-reflection with other facilitator. Providing on call Peer to Peer Supervision and Debrief to other facilitators as they needed it.

Lived Experience Educator

Consumer Consultant on PhD Paper: Examining the role of culture in mental health workplaces, in adapting Recovery Orientated Services

I currently hold four paid roles

1. NDIS Support Worker - Responsible for workign 1:1 with individuals in the community to progress their NDIS Goals.

2. Certified Personal Medicine Coach - Trainer (Certified by Dr Pat Deegan). Training coaches to understand how to hold space for and create curious questions which allows a person to tap into their own inner wisdom and healer within.

3. Sessional Lecturer - Curtin University (Lived Experience)

4. NEW West Australia Recovery College Alliance (WARCA) Educator (This is a dual role - where I am part of the team to Train new Educators as well as co-producing and co-facilitating courses for students of the College.

Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work (TAFE) Clinical Supervision Training (NMMHS Course) Certified Personal Medicines Trainer (Pat Deegan and Associates) Certified Personal Medicines Coach (Pat Deegan and Associates) Lived Experience Educator (Curtin University - delivered by Lyn Mahboub and Robyn Martin) WA Recovery College Alliance Educator PAPERS / CONFERENCES Service User’s Academic Symposium, NZ - Developing a Peer Supervision Model that understands Lived Experience - Transforming Trauma through Talking Together Service User’s Academic Symposium, Melbourne - Valuing Lived Experience Project: Lived experience involvement in teaching - challenges and transformations - Valuing Lived Experience Project: Lived experience in teaching - looking back and moving forward - Sick leave and workplace wellbeing for Peer Support Workers Western Australian Association of Mental Health - Making the Lived Experience Meaningful within Mental Health – The Peer Workforce - Lived Experience in Education: Our “A-Ha!” Moment

NMHS COURSES 2017 C4 (Consumer, Carer, Clinician, Community) Engagement Training 2017 Predict and Respond to Aggression (PART) Training 2017 High-Middle-Low Performer Conversations 2017 Clinical Incident Management System (CIMS) Training 2016 Clinical Supervision Training 2016 Occupational Health and Safety for Managers 2016 Productive Mental Health Wards 2015 LIFT Learning Leaders 2015 Quality Improvement 2015 Predict and Respond to Aggression (PART) Training 2015 Psychiatric Services Online Information System (PSOLIS) Training 2003 The Open Patient Administration System (TOPAS) Training 2003 Medical Records Information Tracking System (MERITS) Training

E-LEARNING 2020 Infection Control Training – COVID 19 2020 Hand Hygiene 2020 Diverse WA Cultural Competency Training 2019 Quality, Safety and You – NDIS Worker Orientation Module 2019 Workplace Discrimination, Harassment and Bullying for Employees 2018 Cultural Diversity 2017 Hand Hygiene 2017 Australian Mental Health Care Classification (AMHCC) 2016 Workplace Bullying 2016 Disability Access and Inclusion 2016 Emergency Procedures 2015 Mental Health Act 2015 Activity Based Funding (ABF) 2015 Accountable and Ethical Decision Making 2015 Record Keeping Awareness 2015 Hand Hygiene 2015 Aboriginal & Cultural Diversity

VOLUNTEERING 2018 – 2020 DISCHARGED Alternatives to Suicide (Group Facilitator) 2018 – 2019 Recovery Rocks Community Incorporated (Newsletter and Event Planning) 2017 – 2019 Peer Tutor – Lived Experience 2017 – 2018 BPD Co-design Working Party – Safe Space Cafe

To lead first with relationship.  We cannot be vulnerable and share what matters and what we most struggle with unless trust is established.  Relationship matters.  I check-in often and repeat what I have heard to ensure communication alignment. If a person feels heard, understood and not judged – relationship deepens.  I provide reflective practice supervision but will also share my own views and knowledge as appropriate. Due to my AuDHD, I am a deeply uncertain individual who has a low power footprint but for the same reason, I also love to share knowledge and resources (the best of both worlds!)