Lived Experience
Consultants
Empowering the community care we dream of
A few of our clients
Our Concern
People with lived and living experience face forced medicalization and denial of autonomy, research that erases our complexity, and policy that dehumanizes us. Contributions of people with lived experience remain undervalued.
Our Goal
We interrupt social and structural violence caused by medicalization and epistemic oppression. We directly impact social change in research, policy, academics, and training. We center our history of mad pride, psychiatric survivorship and mutual aid.
Our Services
Research
Objective
Better understand lived perspectives and utilize our knowledge towards scientific revolution.
We offer alternative perspectives to shape research projects, de-centering traditional, systemic outcome measurements and re-centering community-driven markers of success.
Policy
Objective
Influence public and social policy through an equitable and transformative lens.
We provide consultation services on policy analysis, policy writing consultation, and further connection with those most impacted by a given policy.
Academics
Objective
Foster discussion and new areas of learning for students and faculty alike.
We bring radical perspectives that lend frameworks and skills to support real life implementation.
Training & Education
Objective
Support communities and movements with cross-collaborative skills, knowledge & resources
We train with a focus on promoting peer-led alternatives, human rights and social justice, harm reduction frameworks, and resisting systemic assimilation to create real world impact.