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Hello from the three seeds co-design group!
We are a 13 people who brought a depth and wealth of experience and expertise with us to each co-design session. We wear many hats across many South-West communities - most of us have used SWHHS MHAOD services, and many of us are either carers, supporters, clinicians and partners in NGO and Aboriginal health services, or a mixture of all of these things.
We met for two days in Charleville on 14th and 15th and February 2023, and then online for three days the following week.
Day 1
Day 1
The first session was focused on gathering around a yarning circle to ground ourselves on Bidjigal Land, coming together as a group, forming group commitments and getting to know each other and the project. We started to form some aspirations for the future of SWHHS.
Day 2
Day 2
The second session started with checking in on our commitments to each other and the project. Then we shared our aspirations and worked on finding a shared place to start for the journey ahead. TACSI spent the next two days processing these futures and drawing out all of the hopes, ideas and solutions offered during our first two days together.
Day 3
Day 3
We met online for our third, and subsequent, co-design sessions. The session started with checking in on TACSI's summary of the groups’ future aspirations - into four big aspirations.
we want to learn to create a future where...
we want to learn to create a future where...
I have trusted people by my side throughout my journey
I have trusted people by my side throughout my journey
My community has a choice of safe, connected places and experiences to support me
My community has a choice of safe, connected places and experiences to support me
The services and people around me work together to support me and all my needs
The services and people around me work together to support me and all my needs
The people that support me are supported to learn, grow and be well themselves
The people that support me are supported to learn, grow and be well themselves
Notably, these four aspirations apply to consumers, carers, clinicians and non-clinical staff, recognising that many people in South West communities wear multiple hats and that it is the collective experience that will create better outcomes in the future.
How might we get to this future?
How might we get to this future?
A wellbeing centre?
A wellbeing centre?
The concept of a holistic wellbeing hub became a strong expression of the group’s expectations around future connected and collaborative services.
Working principles for a wellbeing centre...
Working principles for a wellbeing centre...
Welcoming, informal, inclusive, healing focused, drop-in, familiar.
Flexible level of service, hours, approach. Meets you where you’re at.
Trusted space where people feel valued and respected and where the offer is regular and reliable
Holistic, seeing everyone as their whole self, SEWB approach to support and wellbeing
Preventative, focused on early intervention, increased interaction with supports
Accessible, increasing conversation, reducing stigma and opening doors. Talking about wellbeing rather than mental health
Educational building a shared language and knowledge of diverse approaches to wellbeing
The group expanded their core concept of a Well-being Centre into virtual, mobile/outreach and physical spaces creating three of the simplest prototypes to test.
Day 4
Day 4
On day four, we turned our attention to building out some concepts around some of the practices, tools and roles we had identified to support improved experiences and outcomes for future services.
Day 5
Day 5
To conclude the sessions, we mapped our work onto a diagram of the ecosystem of all the contributors that will need to create conditions, come together in partnership and deliver on initiatives to create better outcomes for people experiencing challenges with MHAOD in the South West through:
Learning across the ecosystem
Connection across the ecosystem
Creating ripples throughout the ecosystem
Our voices heard across the ecosystem
From the 3 Seeds of ideas, we have mapped out the collective nature of the 10 year journey SWHHS MHAOD will embark on in pursuit of the four big aspirational futures.
Building on the co-design group's work...
Building on the co-design group's work...
We offered our invaluable insights from a localised, lived experience perspective, to change and shape the draft framework.
Our four big aspiration are now incorporated into the revised framework and theory of action.
The concepts, tools, practices and roles identified throughout the co-design process have informed the structure of the business case, as follows:
Roles
Team Development
Service Development
Partnerships
Advocacy and Allyship
From this point, TACSI will work with the SWHHS MHAOD Director and other contributors to build out content for the SWHHS MHAOD business case.
Not the end, but a new beginning!
Not the end, but a new beginning!
We celebrated this new way of working together and are keen to form a dedicated consumer and carer advisory group to inform future co-planning and co-design activities in the South West.
Co-design group
Some of us are keen to let you know that we are part of this project. Some of us prefer to remain anonymous — but we know who we are ;D
Aimee, Angie Gorry, Aurora Bermudez, Christina Waldron, Gavin Johannessen, Mary Perrotet, Peter Nathan, Linda King, Shelley Lawton, Tegan Russell, Troy Williams.
Pending: Kylie, Karen and Ian,
With input and support from
TACSI facilitators: Ashwini Alluri, Martin Ford, Clementine Rocks
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