
Lived Experience Mental Health Recovery Collaborator
At The Lived Perspective you are the expert in your own personal journey.
At The Lived Perspective you are the expert in your own personal journey.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work, live and play.
We celebrate the diversity of Aboriginal peoples, their ongoing cultures and connections to the lands and waters of this place in which we also dwell.
We pay our respects to Elders past, present and knowledge holders and acknowledge that even in the digital sphere, all that we do is done with feet planted firmly on Country rich in First Nation's People's Heritage and Tradition.
We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and carry this truth with us in our day and all our days to come as we seek to honour the Wisdom of the Ancestors and play our own rightful part as Second Nations People.
The Lived Perspective specialises in mental health recovery supports, peer workforce supervision, co-design and consultancy. Lived experienced recovery practitioners draw upon person-centred, trauma-informed approaches. Here you will be supported to find the courage and strength to explore, realise and unleash your own self-determined potential. You will be encouraged to explore your own self-determined recovery pathways and supported to activate your own cultures and languages of optimism hope.
Fi Peel (pronouns: Fi/they/them/theirs) has had a wide and varied engagement with the mental health sector, training concurrently as as a counsellor and as a mental health peer support worker.
Fi works independently as a lived-experience recovery collaborator and sometimes peer worker; sometimes peer workforce supervisor; sometimes co- design consultant; sometimes consumer academic; sometimes NDIS consultant; sometimes policy advisor; sometimes podcast host; sometimes human rights, LGBTQI+ and mental health reform advocate; sometimes speaker; sometimes theatre-maker; sometimes writer; sometimes performer; sometimes yoga-stretcher; always curious; always musical theatre geek; always proud young adult parent; always pensive puppy parent; always long walks lover; always contemplative silence seeker; always in search of good food, a decent drop of wine and sparkling conversation; always surprising; rarely sedentary; never bored and completely unable to multi-task!
Fi's areas of interest include complex trauma and mental health access barriers; developing structurally ethical supports for the sustainable development of the lived experience workforce; encouraging conversation regarding the impact of adverse social determinants on socioemotional wellbeing; deconstructing LGBTQIA+ barriers and hurdles to creating socially inclusive environments; and activating arts-engagement to foster the co-creation of socially equitable worlds that can truly strengthen self-determined pathways to social healing and self-acceptance.
Fi can be regularly observed in unusual behaviours such as rehearsal engagement absorption; crafting worlds in words laser focus; stretching vocal cords and harmonic sequences in curious ways; clumsy and self-conscious dancing or woandering across unceded Country lost in thought, with headphones blaring mixed playlists from Brahms to Broadway, always in search of the next strand of inspiration. Diagnosis: Utterly Mad. Prognosis: Terminal. Label: Artist.
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul –
That sings the tune without words –
That never stops – at all –
- Emily Dickinson
The Lived Perspective is not a crisis service. If you find yourself or your loved one in immediate danger please call Emergency Services on 000 or contact the Mental Health Access Line on 1800 011 511
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