Designed to build shared understanding, strengthen collaboration, and highlight the unique value of LLE roles.
You’ll gain clear, accessible insights into:
What Lived-Living Experience is (and how it differs from other disciplines)
How lived experience becomes lived expertise
Core values, principles, and role functions across the workforce
Practical ways to embed authentic LLE practice — and common barriers to avoid
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All courses include foundational Lived-Living Experience literacy, to enhance understanding for and about our unique disciplines, and enable effective collaboration. Provides accessible explanations to advocate for broader understanding of Lived-Living Experience.
Key information includes:
Orientation Training – Just $59pp (group discounts apply)
Give your team the essential foundation in Lived-Living Experience (LLE) practice. This orientation clearly explains the principles, practices, and benefits of LLE roles so staff can build understanding, confidence, and readiness from day one.
✔ Accessible & flexible: Online, self-paced modules that fit busy schedules. Learn solo or as a team.
✔ Interactive: Includes regular live Q&A sessions with Dr Louise Byrne, Australia’s leading LLE researcher.
✔ Tailored: Limited live group sessions available by request.
Recommended for organisations to purchase as induction/onboarding training for all staff, with annual refresher follow-up
Orientation training for all staff to define and explain the principles, practice and benefits of Lived-Living Experience work.Â
Self-Paced Learning: Complete at your own pace with flexible online access.
Expert Guidance: Led by Dr. Louise Byrne, including a one-hour Q&A to address tricky questions.
Course duration:
45mins – 1 hourÂ
Access for 12 months from purchase.
Particularly relevant for people in leadership positions (including LLE leaders) HR/people and culture reps, and allies.
Pre-requisite:
Have completed Orientation to Lived-Living Experience for all staff.
Duration:
4 hours approx, access for 12 months from purchase.
This training provides critical understanding and practical steps to embed Lived-Living Experience workforces effectively. Designed to support workplace cultural change, it offers evidence-informed strategies and real-world applications.
Group Setting: Ideal for individuals, groups, or organisations (minimum booking of 10). Monthly cohorts open as soon as 10 people register.
Register your interest or book now. Secure your spot today!
Equips emerging Lived-Living Experience leaders with skills, knowledge, and strategic insight to work more confidently and effectively to influence change and create impact.
Capacity building of advocacy and leadership skills for Lived-Living Experience roles to enhance advocacy and impact while maintaining authentic LLE practice and values.
Expert Guidance: Led by Dr. Louise Byrne
Interactive and Supportive:Â
Practical actions and step by step guidance to enhance and embed strategic thinking and improve impact. Activities include: role play, small and large group discussions, group work, time auditing, development of elevator pitches, debates and other activities to trial and refine various approaches to create effective messaging and exert influence.
Pre-requisite:
Have completed Orientation to Lived-Living Experience for all staff.
Course Duration:
The course will involve 3 x 2.5-hour live sessions monthly over 2-3 months. The sessions will be hosted online to allow ease of attendance for a national cohort.
with Dr Louise Byrne and leading national & international experts
Capacity building for emerging and existing LLE leaders working in or looking to work in designated senior or executive leadership positions.
A core theme of the course is being exposed to, trialling and critically considering different approaches to leadership and advocacy, with a guided process of determining what works best for the individual, and what is likely to work best in different situations or contexts.
What’s Involved?
Live group sessions with opportunities for group/peer networking and learning
Hearing from a variety of top LLE leadership experts
Formal scaffolding learning with an experiential approach to knowledge building
Applied learning activities ‘homework’
Access to one-on-one mentoring/capacity-building sessions
Capacity-building for Lived-Living Experience practitioners in any role type to be more intentional and systematic in our approach to effective communication and persuasion – enhancing confidence and fostering more impactful advocacy and leadership, while maintaining fidelity to our disciplines.
Expert Guidance: Led by Dr. Louise Byrne and Simon Katterl
Interactive and Supportive:Â
Practical actions and step by step guidance to enhance and embed strategic thinking and actions to improve impact. Activities include: role play, small and large group discussions, group work, time auditing, development of elevator pitches, debates and other activities to trial and refine approaches.
Pre-requisite:
Have completed Orientation to Lived-Living Experience for all staff.
Course Duration:
The course involves 4 x 3-hour live sessions monthly over 4 months. Commencing on May 28th 2026.
The sessions will be hosted online to allow ease of attendance for a national cohort.
This leadership offering is unique. We equip Lived-Living Experience leaders with the skills, knowledge, and strategic insight to work more confidently and effectively at executive or senior leadership levels of influence, by deepening understanding and practical skills.
You will be exposed to, trial and critically consider different approaches to leadership and advocacy, with a guided process of determining what is a natural fit for your default leadership approach, opportunities to expand areas of ‘stretch’, and rapidly assess and identify what is likely to work best in different situations or contexts.
Interactive and Supportive:
Pre-requisite:
Have completed Orientation to Lived-Living Experience for all staff.
Course duration:
The course involves 13 x 2.5-3 hour live sessions monthly over 12 months
Curious about what’s next? Take a sneak peek at our 2026 training line-up below.
How to be an effective and pro-active ally.
Group or Individual
Lived Experience Training acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands upon which we live and work. We are grateful to past and present Elders for their cultural knowledge and deep connection to land, sea and community. We pay our deep and heartfelt respects to these essential leaders and thank them for their guidance. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
For a definition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lived-Living Experience, please go to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lived Experience Centre
