Are you interested in helping others using lived/living experiences?
Constantly Learning provides mentoring, coaching, and supportive collaborations for people who have lived/living experiences of housing injustice and/or those working to increase sector/political engagement with lived/living experience.
This includes activities such as:
Reflective practices for Lived Experience Expertise*
Planning for goals, strengths, and values
Skills development and capacity building
Co-developing training and workshop sessions
Collaborative projects and consultation
Skye’s collaborations with Helen and Christine include co-researching lived/living experience involvements in the homelessness services sector, co-founding the Lived Experience Led Homelessness Collective, and co-developing training and workshop packages for the homelessness and social housing sectors.
“It's Skye’s approach that makes them so special. Skye asks guided questions, seeks understanding, and encourages self reflection. They don’t tell, they explore and offer, hold and guide.”
Christine Thirkell, Lived Experience Expert
* Constantly Learning uses the following definition of Lived Experience Expertise, as co-developed with the Southern Homelessness Services Network’s Lived Experience Working Group:
Lived Experience Expertise refers to people who have intentionally transformed their lived/living experiences into relevant expertise.
Lived Experience Expertise includes an awareness and understanding of the structural issues that contribute to homelessness, how systems and lived/living experiences relate to one another, and how the systems can be improved through the inclusion of collective lived/living experience voice.
Peer Work and Lived Experience Expertise can, but do not always, overlap. In the homelessness services sector, Peer Work focuses on using lived/living experience informed expertise to support other people who experience homelessness while Lived Experience Expertise focuses on using lived/living experience informed expertise to improve the systemic context.