Honouring Stories. Strengthening Connection. Advancing Impact.

Advance your impact with a 4-week Lived-Experience Integration Audit—assess where you are, identify gaps, and leave with a clear roadmap to strengthen lived-experience participation and align with relevant requirements.

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Why Lived Experience Matters

Strengthens connection and stakeholder alignment

Informs better decisions and higher-impact solutions

Empowers communities through meaningful participation and influence

Drives sustained transformation across programs, services, and systems

Results-Focused

The current landscape calls for a shift beyond passive lived-experience consultation toward genuine power-sharing and meaningful influence. We work alongside your team to strengthen the day-to-day practices, structures, and expertise needed to embed lived experience into decision-making, advance equity, improve health and social care outcomes, empower communities, and align with relevant regulatory and funding requirements.

Implementation Framework

Our Implementation Framework promotes the respectful, dignified, and equitable inclusion of people with lived experience across relevant processes and activities. We help foster shared power in decision-making, recognition of lived experience as expertise and accountable action informed by lived-experience insights for improving health and social outcomes.

Trauma-Informed Stakeholder Engagement & Capacity Building

Bi-Directional Knowledge Translation & Co-Design Facilitation

Intersectional Gender Integration & Equity-Driven Enablers

Turn lived experience into shared insights, connect communities with providers and decision-makers, and facilitate co-creation that drives practical solutions.

Use intersectional equity practices to advance gender equality and remove barriers to participation.

Coach and prepare contributors and organizational teams while facilitating safe, culturally responsive engagement sessions that empower marginalized communities to influence decisions.

From Narratives to Impact

We move from lived-experience insights to practical action through a four-step process that gathers, translates, shares, and co-creates knowledge.

Gather Insights

Analyze & Synthesize

Share Findings

We identify and engage Lived-Experience Contributors (LECs) or work with existing narratives to gather meaningful insights.

Using ethical, trauma-informed approaches, we create safe and respectful opportunities for lived experience to inform programs, services, and decision-making.

Approaches include:

• Document and narrative review

• Surveys

• Storytelling sessions

• Community circles

We analyze and synthesize lived-experience data to identify patterns, themes, strengths, gaps, and opportunities across multiple experiences.

Through participatory validation, we strengthen accuracy, relevance, and shared understanding while translating findings into structured, accessible insights.

Outputs include:

• Structured insights and key themes

• Identified strengths, gaps, and opportunities

• Participatory validation of findings

• Accessible summaries for broader audiences and LECs

We translate insights into audience-specific formats that make findings accessible, engaging, and actionable to strengthen alignment among LECs, front-line staff, leaders, and decision-makers.

Formats include:

• Report and briefing content

• Infographics

• Journey maps

• Formatted video and audio

We bring LECs, supporters, staff, and decision-makers together to translate diverse insights into practical strategies, programs, and services through inclusive co-design and shared decision-making.

Through skilled facilitation, we help build shared ownership, navigate differing perspectives, and move from insight to action.

Outputs include:

• Co-design workshops

• Actionable recommendations

• Consensus-building and decision support

• Frameworks and prototypes

• Program workflows and service blueprints

Facilitate Co-Design

Ready to Strengthen Your Lived-Experience Integration?

Let's explore how to build on meaningful engagement efforts and strengthen community influence in organizational decision-making.