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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 5h

Your answers shape whether AI-based tools could help or just become another surveillance layer.

Professor Sharon Lawn is leading this work, and the results will inform whether and what types of support tools could actually help people get ahead of their anxiety.

Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 5h

We're working with Flinders Uni and QUT on research designed by a Lived Experience Co-design Group. The survey asks what you'd find genuinely useful in terms of support, and what would cross ethical lines.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 5h

Some of you are reading this at 3am because you can't stop scrolling even though you know it's making everything worse. Others deleted every app except the essential ones and you're still carrying the weight of what those platforms did to you or someone you love.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 5h

Two days left to contribute to research that centres what people actually need, not what researchers assume.

Anxiety doesn't follow a neat schedule, and neither does the relationship between social media and sleep.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 3d

It would be wonderful to have you join us!

Date: Tuesday 11 November 2025
Time: 11:30am - 12:40pm
Register here: zurl.co/xQnVO

Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 3d

These challenges include workforce shortages, limited services and infrastructure deficits across regional and rural communities.

In this event, we will be highlighting the key components of the model and how we plan to test it from here on.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 3d

The Mind and Body Navigator Model of Care, created in collaboration with Lived Experience experts, offers a practical and forward-thinking solution to the ongoing challenges in improving access to preventive health care.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 3d

The upcoming End-of-Year Showcase for the project will highlight the progress made in designing a model of care to help mental health consumers with navigating the physical health system.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 3d

LEA is involved with a project called the Mind and Body Care Navigator Project, which explores innovative ways to improve access to physical health care for mental health consumers, particularly in regional and rural Australia.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 3d

Nat Cook, panels featuring voices from across the disability sector, plus Restless Dance Theatre performance. 10am-4pm at Evergreen Community Precinct. An important conversation about human rights and systems change for people with disability. Learn more at b-hart.com.au

Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 3d

B-HART is hosting a Human Rights Day Symposium on 10 December 2025 in Adelaide, South Australia, bringing together government, researchers, service providers, and disability advocates. Keynote from Hon.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 4d

Survey designed by people with lived experience.
18+, use social media on phone, experienced anxiety from it? Takes 15 mins. Closes Sun 9 Nov.
zurl.co/5ipbN

Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 4d

The social media and anxiety survey closes this Sunday. Not trying to nag, just a reminder in case it slipped your mind.
Working with @flinders.edu.au and @qut.edu.au to understand the real patterns between social media use and anxiety.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 8d

By coming together and building connection, we can help break the silence, nurture compassion, and create a trauma-informed community.

Learn more about BKD and the work of the foundation here: blueknot.org.au/get-involved...

Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 8d

Blue Knot Day a National Day time each year to raise awareness for the 5 million+ adult Australians living with the impacts of complex trauma – repeated childhood abuse, neglect, violence, and exploitation.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 8d

This Blue Knot Day, they invite you to join their national movement of hope, healing, and solidarity.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 8d

The 30th of October is Blue Knot Day.

What is Blue Knot Day?

For 30 years, @Blue Knot Foundation has supported and advocated for survivors of complex trauma and their loved ones.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 9d

Ten venues already on board, with access to psychologists and resilience training. After the challenges of recent years, this kind of leadership-led approach matters.
zurl.co/mxL9d

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 9d

Tasmania's taking some smart steps forward in hospitality mental health. Their new Hospitality Health Leaders Program brings venue leaders together to embed genuine mental health support into workplace culture.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 10d

Contact Beyond Beds at [email protected] or via Facebook: Silent Sounds of Survivors

Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 10d

The Victorian Parliament petition closes 31 October. Please sign, share, and consider providing a letter of support.

Victorian Parliament petition: zurl.co/unm2T

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 10d

Only four adolescent mental health inpatient beds exist in regional Victoria (two in Mildura, two in Traralgon). Rural young people already face higher rates of mental illness and suicide, and the absence of local services significantly increases these risks.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 10d

Beyond Beds is a grassroots, youth-led campaign advocating for at least eight dedicated adolescent inpatient beds in the Hume Region. This campaign is being led by four young advocates under 30 with lived experience, working without funding.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 10d

When young people experience a crisis, they're often placed in emergency departments or adult wards (environments that aren't safe or appropriate for their age) or families must travel up to four hours to Box Hill, with no guarantee of an available bed.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 10d

The Hume Region serves over 1.3 million people but has no adolescent mental health inpatient beds.

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