Question 1

Which supervision service should I choose?

Accepted Answer

Social Work Supervision uses a social work professional lens. Peer Work Supervision is grounded in a lived and living experience lens and informed by the National Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Development Guidelines. Lived Experience Leadership Supervision focuses on senior work where lived and living experience is a core knowledge base. Frontline Team Supervision is for established multidisciplinary teams.

Question 2

Is supervision the same as therapy or line management?

Accepted Answer

No. Supervision provides a reflective space for professional practice. It does not replace therapy, management, performance processes or crisis support.

Question 3

Can an organisation fund supervision?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Fees, invoicing, attendance information and confidentiality arrangements are agreed for the particular service. Funding does not automatically give an employer access to session content.

Question 4

Where can I find the fees?

Accepted Answer

Each supervision page lists its own format and fees. Group and organisational arrangements are agreed for the relevant service rather than priced as one interchangeable offer.

Question 5

What topics can Michael speak about?

Accepted Answer

Michael speaks on lived and living experience leadership, mental health, suicide prevention, carers and families, multicultural mental health, culturally responsive practice, co-design and the organisational conditions that determine whether lived experience genuinely influences decisions.Each engagement is shaped around the audience and purpose rather than delivered as a generic motivational talk.

Question 6

Who are speaking engagements suitable for?

Accepted Answer

Speaking engagements can be designed for conferences, professional and workforce events, leadership forums, universities, community organisations, health and mental health services, and other organisations seeking a lived experience, practice or organisational perspective

Question 7

What speaking formats are available?

Accepted Answer

Depending on the event, Michael can contribute through keynotes, conference presentations, panels, facilitated conversations, webinars and other agreed speaking formats.If the purpose is to develop participants' skills or practice rather than provide a speaking contribution, a workshop or training engagement may be more appropriate.

Question 8

Are speaking engagements available online?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Michael is Perth-based and available for online speaking engagements across Australia and internationally.Please enquire about your event, date and format so availability can be confirmed.

Question 9

Can a presentation be tailored to our audience?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The emphasis and examples can be adapted to the audience, event purpose and agreed brief.Where an organisation requires substantial research, consultation, development of new material or a customised workshop rather than a speaking engagement, that additional work will be scoped separately.

Question 10

How much does a speaking engagement cost?

Accepted Answer

Speaking fees depend on the format, duration, preparation required, audience and any additional requirements such as recording or reuse.Send through the event details and LEXs will provide a clear scope and fee before the engagement is confirmed.

Question 11

Can we record or reuse Michael's presentation?

Accepted Answer

Recording, publication and reuse are agreed in advance. Please include any recording, livestreaming, publication or ongoing-use requirements when making your enquiry so these can be included in the scope.

Question 12

How do I enquire about a speaking engagement?

Accepted Answer

Send through the proposed date, audience, event purpose, format, approximate duration and what you would like participants to take away.LEXs will then confirm fit, availability and the next steps.

Question 13

Can training be tailored to our organisation?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Training can be shaped around your audience, setting, goals and the conversations your workforce needs to hold. A session for social workers will not look the same as a session for a school, settlement service, community organisation, Primary Health Network or multidisciplinary health team. The degree of tailoring is agreed before the program is confirmed.

Question 14

How is this different from general cultural awareness training?

Accepted Answer

General cultural awareness training usually introduces broad concepts about culture, identity and difference. LEXs training is practice-focused. It works through the conversations professionals are actually asked to hold, including family silence, help-seeking, masculinity, migration, suicide risk, supervision and service access. The emphasis is practical judgement, reflective practice and culturally responsive communication rather than memorising cultural facts.

Question 15

How does this fit with ASIST, safeTALK or Mental Health First Aid?

Accepted Answer

It complements them rather than replacing them. Those programs provide established approaches to recognising concern, opening conversations and responding safely. LEXs training focuses on what becomes more complex when culture, migration, faith, masculinity, family duty, shame and service systems shape the interaction.

Question 16

Can suicide prevention content be delivered to non-clinical staff?

Accepted Answer

Yes, with the content matched to role and responsibility. Non-clinical staff may need practical confidence in noticing concern, opening a conversation, responding safely and knowing when to escalate. Clinical audiences may require deeper work on assessment, formulation, cultural context and systems response.​The depth of suicide prevention content is agreed during scoping.

Question 17

How are training fees set?

Accepted Answer

Training is quoted as a fixed fee covering the agreed preparation, tailoring, materials and delivery. Where material new content is needed, scoping and design are paid components, agreed before development begins. Recording, reuse and additional reporting are separately agreed and priced.

Question 18

Do you provide training for supervisors?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The culturally responsive supervision program is designed for supervisors, managers and practice leads who want to strengthen supervision capability across their teams.​If you are looking for ongoing supervision with me rather than training for your workforce, see social work supervision, which is a separate service.

Question 19

Can training support CPD requirements?

Accepted Answer

LEXs can provide a certificate of attendance stating the program and hours completed. Participants can use that record when documenting professional development.​Any specific CPD requirements set by an employer, regulator or professional body should be checked against that organisation's own requirements.

Question 20

Do you work with organisations outside Western Australia?

Accepted Answer

Yes. LEXs is based in Perth and delivers training online to organisations across Australia.

Question 21

Can you design training for a topic that is not one of the three established programs?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Custom design is available where the need does not fit the three established programs. This is particularly relevant for refugee, migrant and settlement-related practice or where an organisation has a specific workforce, community or service context that needs to shape the content.

Question 22

What is lived experience consultancy?

Accepted Answer

Lived experience consultancy works on an organisation's structures, decisions and systems rather than primarily on individual practitioner skills. At LEXs, it examines how lived and living experience enters an organisation, where authority sits, whether advice reaches decision-making, what conditions surround lived experience roles and what the organisation can evidence about the resulting influence.

Question 23

What can an organisation commission from LEXs?

Accepted Answer

Organisations can commission an independent Lived Experience Workforce Review, multicultural co-creation, lived and living experience support for research and evaluation, advice on policy, standards and system design, and targeted organisational capability development. The appropriate starting point depends on whether the organisation needs to understand a problem, change an existing structure or build something new.

Question 24

How is this different from lived experience training?

Accepted Answer

Training primarily develops the knowledge or capability of people. Consultancy works on the organisation those people operate within, including governance, workforce structures, policies, decision pathways, services and accountability. Either can be commissioned directly. Where both are needed, the scope and sequence are agreed around the organisational purpose and participants’ learning needs.

Question 25

How much does lived experience consultancy cost?

Accepted Answer

Consultancy is fixed-fee. The Lived Experience Workforce Review has published scopes of $3,500, $7,500 and $12,500; other consultancy is quoted after scoping. The scope, deliverables and fee are agreed in writing before work begins.

Question 26

Can you review an existing advisory group or workforce structure?

Accepted Answer

Yes. A focused Lived Experience Workforce Review can examine one advisory group, including membership, representation, terms of reference, authority, resourcing, governance, where its advice goes and what happens after advice is provided. An organisation does not need a large lived experience workforce to commission a review.

Question 27

Can you help if we already know what we want to build?

Accepted Answer

Yes. An engagement can begin with a draft policy, advisory model, workforce structure, service, resource, engagement process or research design that needs strengthening. A review is most useful when the organisation still needs an independent assessment of what is happening before deciding what should change.​

Question 28

Do you work with organisations outside Western Australia?

Accepted Answer

Yes. LEXs is based in Perth and delivers consultancy online to organisations across Australia. Document review, interviews, consultation, co-creation sessions, sense-making and presentations can all be delivered remotely.

Question 29

Do you provide consultancy to government, universities and research organisations?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The work can be commissioned by government bodies, mental health and suicide prevention services, community organisations, universities, research centres and other organisations working with lived and living experience. The scope is based on the organisational question rather than the sector label.

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Which supervision service should I choose?

Is supervision the same as therapy or line management?

Can an organisation fund supervision?

Where can I find the fees?

What topics can Michael speak about?

Who are speaking engagements suitable for?

What speaking formats are available?

Are speaking engagements available online?

Can a presentation be tailored to our audience?

How much does a speaking engagement cost?

Can we record or reuse Michael's presentation?

How do I enquire about a speaking engagement?

Can training be tailored to our organisation?

How is this different from general cultural awareness training?

How does this fit with ASIST, safeTALK or Mental Health First Aid?

Can suicide prevention content be delivered to non-clinical staff?

How are training fees set?

Do you provide training for supervisors?

Can training support CPD requirements?

Do you work with organisations outside Western Australia?

Can you design training for a topic that is not one of the three established programs?

What is lived experience consultancy?

What can an organisation commission from LEXs?

How is this different from lived experience training?

How much does lived experience consultancy cost?

Can you review an existing advisory group or workforce structure?

Can you help if we already know what we want to build?

Do you work with organisations outside Western Australia?

Do you provide consultancy to government, universities and research organisations?

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