Community
Join us in co-creating community projects focusing on advocacy, research, and education for accessible and individualized mental health care.
Advocacy & Research: Collaborate with our dedicated team on advocacy and research initiatives centred around community wellness, mad and neurodivergent identities, and the amplification of lived experiences.
Education: Participate in impactful educational workshops tailored for your team or organization. These sessions, rooted in our lived experiences, offer unique insights into the mental health system, fostering a deeper understanding, greater awareness, and more comprehensive support networks within your community.
Projects & Collaborations
Lived Magazine
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.
The Community Writers’ Guild with Sick Stories
The Community Writers’ Guild, hosted by Sick Stories x Lived Collective, is a six-week creative writing and community-centered workshop designed to foster connections among groups of people living with similar experiences. This program tailors the sessions to each cohort's needs, utilizing creative writing and grounding exercises to explore emotional expression.
Community engagement with KW Sentro
KW Sentro is an emerging musical, linguistic, and cultural non-profit organization based in Kitchener-Waterloo (KW), ON whose primary aim is to provide high-quality music instruction and musical and cultural programming to the multi-generational Filipino-Canadian community.
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KW Symposium 2024
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Talk Co-Chair: Mental Health in the Filipino Diaspora
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