WELCOME
Lived Collective is a community and therapeutic space for people with lived experiences in mental health, madness, and neurodivergence.
Lived CARE providers and collaborators have their own lived experiences with the mental health system. This unique insight into recovery and navigation of mental health challenges allows our practitioners to provide a therapeutic space that prioritizes trauma-informed care, human connection, and authenticity. If you have lived experience in mental health and would like to work with us, please reach out for more information.
Lived Magazine is a publication about our lived experiences. By our community, for our community, the magazine is comprised of lived experiences, art, writing, resources, and more from mad and neurodivergent people around the world. The magazine aims to provide people with lived experience a platform to share their perspectives and passions, dispelling stigmas by redefining what mental health means to us.
We hope to create an authentic and collaborative space for those who identify as mad or neurodivergent. Our approach is anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, and prioritizes intersectional realities.
We differentiate ourselves by working with practitioners who have lived experience in mental health and addiction challenges, providing a unique perspective and understanding of clients' needs.
We aim to provide support to the community while acknowledging and actively working against the systemic barriers and on-going trauma related to the mental health system.
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We acknowledge the land we operate on is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.
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We are an anti-colonialist and anti-racist community.
We are feminist, 2SLGBTQIA+ allied, and sex-positive.
We are consumer/survivors.
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We are all mad here.
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