Lived Experience Engagement – A Framework to Embed Lived Experience at Every Level of Mental Health Care
Based on the 2024 Global Mental Health Peer Network Webinar
This powerful new book delivers a bold, grounded, and highly practical guide to transforming the mental health system through the real participation of people with lived experience. Drawing from international best practice and lived insights, Andrew Turtle introduces a robust engagement model that moves beyond tokenism—and into true partnership, collaboration, and empowerment.
What the Book Is About:
✔ A clear framework for embedding lived experience at every level—individual, organisational, and systems
✔ The Lived Experience Engagement Continuum, Pyramid, and Spectrum models are explained in detail
✔ Real-world applications of co-design, co-production, shared decision-making, and mutual responsibility
✔ Practical guidance for using consultation, feedback mechanisms, and collaborative care planning
✔ Exploration of peer workforces, advisory roles, consumer-led organisations, and national policy structures
✔ Tools for shaping recovery-oriented, person-centred mental health care that puts people first
✔ A roadmap to creating inclusive, empowering and responsive services through the voices of those who’ve lived it
Lived Experience Engagement is essential reading for anyone ready to transform systems through the wisdom of real experience—whether you're working in policy, frontline support, peer work, academia, or are a lived experience leader yourself.
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