Lived and Living Experience Workforce ECHO
This program aims to shift traditional hierarchies by creating an accessible space where LLEW experts and increase their ability to share and provide trauma informed, compassionate, recovery-oriented, and person-led care. Each LLEW staff member comes with their own set of life experiences, expertise and strengths. A LLEW ECHO allows LLEW staff to highlight their strengths and creates equality and integration between clinical staff and LLEW staff.
Contact ECHO Project Manager Lisa Pearson on Lisa.Pearson@gvhealth.org.au or jacq.kiss@gvhealth.org.au (LLEW ECHO Lead) to register or discuss your initiative and ideas.
2nd September 2026
Theme: Contributing to Change
Topic: How do we lead change (Executive Style)
Presenter: Maggie Toko, Interim Commissioner, Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission
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7th October 2026
Theme: Journey through the LLEW
Topic: More Than a Story: Building Professional Identity as LLE – Exploring how LLE is recognised and applied as expertise in practice, and how we navigate professional identity, credibility and influence across different settings
Presenter: Dr Gabriele Byrne, LLE Role for Gambling Harm, Department of Health and from 1st July Dr Gabriele (Gabi) Byrne, Senior Adviser, Specialist, Lived and Living Experience, Gambling Harm, DH
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4th November 2026
Theme: How do I survive this?
Topic: Calling for a lifeline
Presenter: Emer Diviney, Manager, APSU-SHARC
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2nd December 2026
Theme: Royal Commission, Frameworks and Act
Topic: Our threat or our lifeline? – Managing clinicans’ perspective of LLEW and the Work We Do
Presenter: Anna Sowden- Director of LLEW, Barwon Health
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3rd February 2027
Theme: Carer
Topic: Which Lens, Whose Lens? Can I cross over and come back again?
Presenter: Ashleigh Perrin, Senior Peer Worker, Bendigo Adult Community Mental Health
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3rd March 2027
Theme: How do I survive this?
Topic: Disconnecting Without Becoming Disconnected
Presenter: Eila Lyon and Kelle Reid, The Collective/ SHARC
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7th April 2027
Theme: Journey through the LLEW
Topic: Power and Potential of Lived Experience Research
Presenter: Dr Helena Roennfeldt, Lived Experience Research, Research and Evaluation, Mind
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5th May 2026
Theme: Royal Commission, Frameworks and Act
Topic: Forty years of peer work and now it’s called Lived -Living experience? How Harm Reduction has responded to the LLEW initiatives in Victoria
Presenter: Sioni Crawford, CEO, Harm Reduction Victoria
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2nd June 2027
Theme: Journey through the LLEW
Topic: When the Intersections get real! Which way do I go?
Presenter: Jules Diamond, St Vincent’s Mental Health
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7th July 2027
Theme: Evaluation
Topic: Let’s Evaluate this!! How do we evaluate the work we do? What does success even look like to us as LLEW?
Presenter: Led by Eila Lyon and Kelle Reid (The Collective/SHARC)
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Goulburn Valley Health
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Shepparton, 3630
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Phone: 03 5832 2322
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