Lived and Learnt Experience: Amplifying Voices to Enhance Our Work in Suicide Prevention

In this course, Dr. Sarah Wayland, University of New England, shares findings of various research projects to underscore that, although many, if not most, public and private agencies working in the suicide prevention space say that they do include lived experience, they may be doing it in a way which does not capture certain aspects of lived experience: those which are more difficult to hear. Noting the disconnect between public and private voices, Dr. Wayland addresses factors such as structural inequities, stigma, and tokenism which mean that there is a power imbalance and some facets of experience are underrepresented.