This workshop examines creativity as an essential element of wellbeing, healthcare, advocacy and innovation. Suitable for any kind of audience and highly customisable, Compassionate Creation encourages participants to explore multiple truths, lean into expression as a form of communication, advocacy and giving back. It creatively redefines collaboration, innovation, productivity and wellbeing.

This workshop delves into the nuances of language in mental health practice. It explores the history of language as a tool of oppression, modern forms of discrimination, and the impact of harmful terminology. Participants will learn practical ways to reframe language and navigate the complexities of communication with care.

Hosted by Integrity Initiative and Maeson’s Soapbox, this workshop creates a space to slow down, connect, and explore how we share our lived experiences intentionally and with care for ourselves and others.

Through open conversations and creative reflection, we’ll unpack what lived experience really means, why conscious care matters, and how to share stories in ways that feel empowering rather than exposing. Word Travels will explore the dignity of risk whilst keeping in mind the roles, rights and responsibilities of those involved.

This workshop empowers participants to engage in meaningful conversations about mental health, informed by an understanding of the oppressive history of mental health and the models of disability. It offers guidance through the discomfort that can accommodate difficult conversations and seeks to build confidence in authentic, accountable communication.

This workshop introduces Lived Experience Expertise and the Peer Workforce. It highlights the challenges faced when engaging a Lived Experience workforce with consideration of intersectionality. It frames Lived Experience work as an adjunct to (rather than in contest with) traditional and clinical approaches to mental health.

Create, Critique, Collaborate is a six-hour, immersive workshop that blends together elements from Peers, Professions and Partnership, Compassionate Creation and Grow Up. It takes an unconventional approach to systems thinking, and lived experience leadership for a day of learning, reflection, growth and deep knowledge.

This interactive workshop combines gentle movement and body neutrality with community, connection and togetherness. Explore the history of diet culture rooted in capitalism, the fat liberation movement, and why it is so important to lead with compassion when we talk about bodies.

This workshop examines what meaningful youth engagement looks like in practice and how to move away from tokenistic or patronising approaches. It challenges common myths and unintentional forms of discrimination such as epistemic injustice, glitter-washing, dignity of risk and duty of care in hopes of promoting non-tokenistic, meaningful and accessible avenues for youth engagement.

This workshop is designed for those working in clinical roles where power, policies and protective frameworks limit the feasibility and practicality of holding compassion and honouring choice as a priority in mental health spaces. It explores Duty of Care, Dignity of Risk, nuance and Peer values. It also emphasises the role of micro-choice and enhancing decision-making as opposed to assessing whether or not a person ‘has’ it.

This workshop is developed to discuss common barriers in Lived Experience, based heavily on the concept of epistemic injustice (coined by Miranda Fricker, 2007). It invites participants to creatively explore what Lived Experience brings in a professional capacity and what it means on a personal level through creative activities, interactive discussion and guided individual reflection.

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