Why Lived Experience Matters. Lived experience of suicide can be a powerful driver of change in workplace culture, policies, and processes. It helps improve suicide prevention efforts, wellbeing, and productivity by challenging harmful stigma and creating an environment for open discussion. By integrating these insights, organisations can build a more supportive and inclusive culture.
How Can We Help. Roses in the Ocean can guide your organisation in developing a culture informed by lived experience. We work with you to assess your organisation’s readiness for change and provide ongoing support to make this shift.
Tools to build a lived experience of suicide informed and inclusive culture
In partnership with Beacon Strategies, we’ve developed a tool to support meaningful integration of lived experience of suicide perspectives and expertise within an organisation or government department. It helps identify areas that are progressing well, and opportunities for improvement to effectively and compassionately build a lived experience of suicide inclusive and informed culture.
The Tool can be used as a starting point to identify the next steps in your organisation’s lived experience of suicide inclusion journey.
- Takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete
- Free to use
- Instant results and a detailed report
We offer workshops to build capacity across your organisation to embed lived experience perspectives and expertise:
- Lived Experience Informed Suicide Literacy (1-day) – Increases suicide literacy across your whole workforce. Content is delivered from a lived experience perspective which deepens people’s understanding of suicide and supports more meaningful integration.
- Integrating Lived Experience in Program Design (1-day) – For those working in program and service design, this workshop provides guidance on how to genuinely engage with people who have lived experience of suicide to ensure their unique and valuable perspectives and expertise contributes to every phase of the design including program/service model, outcomes to be measured and evaluation.
- Putting Principles into Practice – For leaders, managers, and People and Culture roles looking to lead the process of embedding lived experience of suicide expertise throughout an organisation.
The resources are designed to guide service providers, organisations and government to engage, integrate and partner with people with lived experience of suicide as we collectively embrace a whole of community, whole of government lived experience informed approach to suicide prevention.
Every workplace likely includes individuals with lived experience of suicide. By creating an informed, supportive environment, these employees may choose to share their experiences and work with management to build an organisation which purposefully overlays a suicide prevention lens to their work. Every organisation and service can play an integral role in suicide prevention, and be well equipped to support those affected by suicide. The Lived Experience of suicide workforce may include individuals with lived experience in designated roles to drive the inclusion of lived expertise, or they may be Suicide Prevention Peer Workers providing direct support to others. Talk to us about how to ready your organisation for these roles and how to support all staff to work in an integrated way to deliver great outcomes for everyone.
If you’re interested in creating a lived experience of suicide informed culture within your organisation or government department, we would love to talk about how we can help.
Building a Lived Experience Informed and Inclusive Culture: A practical guide for organisations
