Mark Ellis

Mark Ellis is a mental health and suicide prevention peer worker with 30 years experience supporting people with complex and enduring emotional distress. He discusses his childhood trauma of bullying, along with owning your own shadow; holding space for people in distress; how spirituality plays a role in working alongside people with thoughts of suicide; leaving your ego 'at the door' as a peer worker; and his peer-led experiences at Roses in the Ocean – Australia's national lived experience  of suicide organisation.

Stephen Scott

Stephen Scott is the General Manager – Strategy & Policy at Roses in the Ocean - a national lived experience of suicide organisation. Stephen discusses his own experience of suicide, as well as creating a peer-led workforce that’s open, visible, and accessible in our communities so we can break the stigma, silence and shame around experiencing suicidal thinking or having lost someone from suicide.

Matt Ball

Nurse practitioner, psychotherapist and founder of Humane Clinic, Matt Ball speaks about how community can share the burden of distress and other impacts around people facing suicidal thoughts. Matt set up the Just Listening Community Charity which is an initiative for community members to simply listen to people undergoing mental health challenges with a sense of justice. He introduces concepts and modalities such as ‘advocacy towards autonomy’ and the ‘suicide narrative approach’ to understand and develop meaning around what sits behind and within the story of contemplating suicide. Matt also discusses how Humane Clinic delivers free services to any community member in distress or crisis that wishes to access an alternative to other mental health supports.

Donna Humphrey

Perinatal Wellness Peer Worker, Donna Humphrey shares her story of going home; finding her way back to self, after experiencing the trauma of losing her child on the day of birth. As a project officer, Donna has invested her lived experience into helping parents through perinatal challenges at Peach Tree, an organisation located in South East Queensland, who supports perinatal resilience and recovery with individuals and families through education and social action. 

Louisa Dent Pearce

Author, Peer Specialist, and Social Worker, Louisa Dent Pearce engages with host, Robert Nobilia about primal traumas; the power of psychosis; understanding what is freedom; the essential components of healing; her mental health books, ‘The Little Girl that Nobody Wanted’ and ‘Spirit Gnosis’; and Louisa's private practice, The Voice Sanctuary – a safe harbour for people who wish to explore and transform troubling thoughts, voices, internal conflicts, negative self-beliefs and difficult life stories.

Heidi Everett

Artist, mental health arts advocate and social impact innovator, Heidi Everett delves into conversations with host, Robert Nobilia about navigating the psychiactric ward; the ongoing natural cycle of healing; media influence on people with disabilities; and Schizy Inc. – a lived experience led arts organisation, dedicated to offering opportunity and optimism for people with schizophrenia and diverse experience of mental health.