​LIVED EXPERIENCE SOLUTIONS
I’ve lived it, practised it,
led it and researched it
I’m Michael Elwan, an Accredited Social Worker and founder of LEXs. I bring lived and living experience, a multicultural perspective, frontline practice, senior leadership and ongoing PhD research into organisational support for lived experience leadership.
CHOOSE YOUR PATHWAY
Choose where to start
Explore services for your organisation, your professional practice, or yourself and your relationship. Services are delivered online across Australia.
ORGANISATIONS
For organisations
Training, consultancy, lived experience workforce reviews, speaking and defined input to existing projects.
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Welcome to Lived Experience Solutions (LEXs)
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Welcome to LEXs
Meet Michael and hear how lived and living experience, professional practice and research inform LEXs.
What LEXs Brings
Perspectives that inform the work
Organisations: lived and living experience, multicultural perspectives, frontline practice, senior leadership and ongoing research inform questions about participation, responsibilities and how decisions are made.
Supervision: a place to examine professional judgement, boundaries and the organisational context of practice.
Therapy: attention to each person’s circumstances, culture, relationships and what they want from the work.
Recognition: winner, 2026 Australian Mental Health Prize, Lived Experience category; 2025 AASW Social Worker of the Year.
For organisations and groups
Training with practical tools to take away
Build capability in lived experience work, management, participation and influence, multicultural mental health, and recovery and suicide response.
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​Workshops are commissioned for your organisation or group. Participants leave with practical tools they can use straight away.
Testimonials
What people say
Independent Recognition
2025 AASW National Excellence Awards​
Social Worker of the Year
Winner
2025 WA Mental Health Award
Lived Experience Impact & Inspiration
Winner
2026 Suicide Prevention Australia WA LiFE Award
Outstanding Contribution Individual
WA recipient
2026 Suicide Prevention Australia WA LiFE Award
Priority Populations,Lived Experience Solutions (LEXs)
WA recipient
2026 Western Australian Multicultural Awards
Outstanding Individual Achievement
Winner
2025 Western Australian Multicultural Awards
Sir Ronald Wilson Leadership Award
Finalist
2025 R U OK? Barbara Hocking Memorial Awards
Conversation Leader
Finalist
PROFESSIONAL STANDING AND SECURE PRACTICE
