Mind Australia’s Lived Experience Career Compass makes it easier for people who have experienced mental health challenges, personally or as a family member or carer, to enter and build a career in the Lived and Living Experience Workforce.
It also supports the organisations employing students and graduates in lived and living experience roles.
At Mind, we invest in research and pay attention to developing our practice so that it is up-to-date with the latest evidence. Our evidence base includes published frameworks and documents that guide our practice. You will also find some of the literature published by others that we think is an important reference.
Mind Australia is pleased to announce the appointment of Katie Larsen as Executive Director Lived Experience.
Australia has lost a pioneer in the lived experience movement with the recent passing of Anthony Stratford.
Some of his many colleagues and friends from Mind Australia and elsewhere have made a heartfelt and insightful video tribute to Anthony, reflecting on his contribution to peer-led recovery oriented practice.
To mark Mental Health Week (9-16 October) members of Mind Australia’s Lived Experience Advisory Team are sharing their wellbeing tips based on their own personal experiences.
The Peer Cadet Program provides paid work experience opportunities for Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work students in Victoria. These roles are dedicated part-time lived and living experience positions at non-government community mental health service providers.
Katie Larsen
Senior Manager Inclusion and Participation, Mind Australia
Each World Mental Health Day is an opportunity to take stock and consider where we are at this moment in our long journey towards a mental health system that is more effective, more humane, more just and more enlightened.
Mind Australia congratulates the graduates of the 2025/2026 Peer Cadet Program, who are now ready to begin their careers in mental health after successfully completing their 10-month cadetship.