How you can include lived experience in your organisation
People with lived experience bring a unique and valuable form of expertise to all suicide prevention activities. There are many ways to support the meaningful inclusion of lived experience into your organisation.
Talking about suicide
The way you talk about suicide is important – it influences how people perceive suicide, and how they speak about it to other people. Talking appropriately about suicide can help to reduce stigma.
- Language around suicide
- National Communications charter
- How to support a colleague or employee bereaved by suicide
- Videos of people with lived experience sharing key messages for the community
Lived experience co-design
- An introduction to co-design
- The Promise of co-design
- Principles of co-design
- Mental Health Australia: co-design policy
- A guide to build co-design capacity
Useful co-design toolkits