Lived Experience Schizophrenia Seminar
When: Tuesday 13th May 2025
Time: 6:30pm - 8pm
Where: Online on Zoom
Because Sometimes the Most Powerful Lessons Aren’t Found in a Textbook…
Imagine sitting across from someone who’s been through the darkness your NDIS clients might be facing.
Someone who didn’t just study mental health—but lived it.
Now imagine what your team could learn from that person’s story. Not just facts or theories—but real, human understanding. The kind that doesn’t come from a manual. The kind that can change how we care, how we listen, and how we respond.
Our Lived Experience Mental Health Seminars aren’t your typical training. They’re a chance to sit with truth. To hear raw, honest accounts of survival, recovery, and resilience. To gain insight that brings heart to the work you already do.
Led by a passionate educator who shares their lived experience each month with organisations like Sydney University, TAFE, NSW Police, Neami, and Anglicare—these sessions create space for reflection, learning, and connection. They’re backed by evidence-based frameworks, but driven by something far more powerful: human experience.
For NDIS workers, this is more than professional development. It’s personal growth.
You’ll leave these one-hour sessions with:
• A deeper sense of empathy for those you support
• Practical ways to communicate with care and confidence
• A renewed sense of why this work matters
. Each one-hour and a half session offers NDIS workers:
• Evidence-based, experience-informed education to complement formal training.
• Real stories that deepen empathy and humanise the mental health journey.
• Tools and takeaways to apply directly in client interactions.
• A safe space to ask questions and gain perspective.
Because when you understand someone’s story, you show up differently. And that can change lives.
Let’s bring lived experience into the room—because your clients don’t just need services. They need people who truly get it.
Book a session. Start a conversation. Make an impact.
Meet Richard Bell — A Voice That Changes Minds and Opens Hearts
Since 2007, Richard Bell has been doing more than just speaking — he’s been reshaping the way people understand mental health. With raw honesty and unwavering courage, Richard shares his journey of living with schizophrenia since the age of eleven. Now in his forties, his story is not just one of survival, but of profound insight, resilience, and humanity.
Richard doesn’t just educate — he connects. His lived experience presentations aren’t clinical lectures; they’re transformative encounters. Through powerful storytelling, he brings audiences face-to-face with the reality of one of the most misunderstood mental illnesses. He turns stigma into understanding, fear into empathy, and silence into meaningful dialogue.
Over the years, he has inspired countless organisations across the country, creating safe spaces for learning, questioning, and deep emotional connection. Richard's ability to answer difficult questions with openness and clarity makes his sessions unforgettable — not because they’re filled with data, but because they’re filled with truth.
This is more than training. This is lived experience. This is the power of real human connection.
Let Richard Bell show your team what it means to truly see someone — and walk away changed.
Now imagine what your team could learn from that person’s story. Not just facts or theories—but real, human understanding. The kind that doesn’t come from a manual. The kind that can change how we care, how we listen, and how we respond.
