Program highlights

Not a lecture about bias but an experience of it. Taimi Allan's session puts you in the room with your own assumptions and asks what you'll do next.

Kim Borrowdale, 2024 Outstanding Contribution Award winner, on how to structure your story so it lands. Whether you present to stakeholders, advocate for change or share lived experience.

A landmark collaboration bringing together lived experience, clinical expertise and advocacy to reframe how the sector understands and responds to psychosis.

Voices, perspectives and ways of knowing that reframe what wellbeing means in the Australian mental health context. Full program to be confirmed.

Practical tools for leaders navigating a sector where the work itself can be traumatising. Amy Smith on building organisations that genuinely care for the people doing the caring.

Eight presenters. Clinicians, carer consultants, researchers and people with lived experience in the room together. What co-production actually looks like in practice.

Ideas that do not need to be safe, evidence based or widely accepted. They just need to be visionary, coherent and open to challenge. Come ready to think differently.

A coronial expert, a bereaved family member, a suicide attempt survivor, a psychiatrist and a consumer peak body asking how we learn to learn better from loss. Featuring the Victorian Coroner.

Short films from around the world, real lived experience stories, and facilitated dialogue on how storytelling builds hope, belonging and recovery. One of the most distinctive sessions on the program.