LISTENING LABS (2025)
Listening to lived experience is central to informing the quality of responses. Individually and collectively, we can listen to and be led by victim-survivors’ insights and experiences of violence and abuse. Our response to listening to lived expertise is what makes the difference – socially and systemically. Individually and collectively, we can build on our understanding to inform our responses to domestic, family and sexualised violence.
The Listening Labs have been developed to support peers (set of 3) to explore lived experience insights, and insight-informed materials in Insight Exchange.
Peer participants can use the opportunity to consider if and how the insights and materials can shape and inform their day-to-day work and responses to violence and abuse.
Peer participants are invited and supported to each dedicate 4 days (32hrs) of non-consecutive time in the Listening Lab.
The peer work is for exploring Insight Exchange with a focus area specific to the Listening Lab. Each Listening Lab takes a different focus, yet the foundations of each draw from the same central content and structured sequence for participation.
Each Listening Lab includes a structured supported opportunity to:
(a) explore Insight Exchange materials and reflect together as peers
(b) exchange insights and responses with the Insight Exchange team
(c) an opportunity to coordinate a free (donated) virtual session* for guests (colleagues, contacts and peers) up to a group size of 20.
*The virtual session for guests involves two parts (1) the Responders Lab (facilitated by the Responders Lab team) and (2) Creating Possibilities (exploring together 3 key Insight Exchange materials as a group) .
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