The Lived Experience Hub is Now Live

After a significant period of research, mapping, and system design, I’m excited to share that The Lived Experience Hub is now live.

This platform has been built with a clear purpose: to bring together the global lived experience movement into one accessible, structured, and meaningful location.

Across the world, lived experience organisations and programs are doing powerful work—advocating, supporting, innovating, and reshaping mental health systems. But until now, much of this ecosystem has been fragmented, difficult to navigate, and spread across countries, sectors, and models.

The Lived Experience Hub changes that.

It maps lived experience organisations and initiatives into a single, convenient space—making it easier to explore what exists, understand how the movement is evolving, and connect with the people and systems driving change.

Built on the foundation of my book, Lived Experience Power, the Hub goes one step further. It doesn’t just describe the movement—it actively links you to it. Every organisation and program included is connected through direct pathways, allowing you to move from insight to action.

The platform is structured across key domains of the lived experience movement, including advocacy and leadership, peer work, consumer-driven initiatives, alternatives to traditional psychiatry, anti-stigma campaigns, and Mad Studies. Together, these form a living system—one that is growing, evolving, and increasingly shaping the future of mental health globally.

This is more than a directory. It is infrastructure for a global movement.

And it’s only the beginning.

Explore the Lived Experience Hub today (temporary site):https://turtleacupuncture.wixstudio.com/livedexperience

If you are part of the movement, I invite you to engage—explore, share, contribute, and help build this into a truly global resource.

Because when lived experience connects… systems change.