Thinking about what “leadership” means
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Author: Amy Wells
Posts by Amy Wells
Why we need to think bigger and further within lived experience leadership
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Lived experience leadership: making meaning out of messy situations
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Nothing about us without us: why lived experience is invaluable to peer support
When looking at the holes in support systems we are forced to reconcile with the fact that although lived experience… more
Facilitating brave spaces online
Blog by Make Space Collective, April 2021 Facilitating brave conversations online Make Space is a user-led collective. We create spaces for… more
Autism and colour in a monochrome anti-neurodivergent psychiatric setting
I knew someone who was detained under the Mental Health Act section 3 for up to 4 years in 8… more
My experience of being sectioned
The story I am autistic. I didn’t know I was autistic until I was almost 17. This played a major… more
Card Games & Colouring Books: an Inpatient Perspective on being Sectioned
A heavy stillness sits over the ward garden in the blistering summer heat. The black leather bean bag I’m sat… more
Is lived experience leadership possible?
Our third blog in a short series exploring what “lived experience leadership” means to us. In an ideal scenario, lived… more
“What do you do?”
Our second blog in a short series exploring what “lived experience leadership” means to us. ‘What do you do?’ I… more
My experiences as a lived experience leader
Our first blog in a series exploring what “lived experience leadership” means to us. The term ‘lived experience’ seems to… more
Let me die, before I am killed
Let me die, before I am killed – a black male schizophrenic plea in relation to the Mental Health Act… more