Recovery College Tasmania are running sessions in the North and North west! The Recovery College is offering a range of free courses designed to support mental health, wellbeing and personal recovery in our community. Join us to learn about topics such as Living with Anxiety Exploring Possibilities with Bipolar Health Bodies & Minds Living with Depression Understanding Schizophrenia Self-care gratitude & hope and more. Whether you're experiencing mental health challenges, supporting someone who is, or have a passion for mental health education everyone is welcome to learn with us. These sessions offer tools and strategies to support yourself and those around you and being held in Devonport, Burnie and Launceston.

The National Mental Health Consumer Alliance has launched Australia’s only national Human Rights Survey designed by and for people with lived experience of mental health challenges. They want to hear how your human rights were upheld — or breached—in 2025. Whether in mental health, justice, health, or other systems, your story helps us track where Australia is meeting its international obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). Your responses are completely anonymous and will be analysed by the lived-experience research group ACACIA. The results will shape national advocacy to make sure human rights are real for all mental health consumers. Take the survey now — closes 31 December 2025.

The 2025 Equally Well Conference will bring people together from across the mental health sector to share innovative projects and research focusing on the shared goal of improving the physical quality of life for people with a lived experience of mental health challenges. ​ Register now for his free event and be part of a dynamic and inclusive experience where people with lived experience, academics, health leaders, clinicians, policy officers, and advocates come together to showcase bold, collaborative approaches that are transforming health equity and saving lives. Together we are redefining what quality mental and physical health care truly means. ​Where: Pullman Adelaide, 6 Hindmarsh Square. 21-22 November 2025 Submit and Abstract to present your great work advancing physical health for people living with mental health challenges under our theme Equally Well for all – working together, Apply for a Lived Experience Bursary supporting consumers and careers. Nominate for an Equally Well Achievement Awards are an opportunity to formally recognise organisations, projects, initiatives and individuals who are making an impact on improving the physical health outcomes of people living with mental health challenges and supporting the Equally Well mission.

Navigating My Way is a set of written, visual and video resources that have been developed through a co-design process centering lived experience. This project was funded by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, and was developed by VMIAC, the peak body for mental health consumers in Victoria. ​ This project is designed to support NDIS participants with psychosocial disabilities in growing their knowledge of their rights when working with service providers. The resources aim to build skills and confidence in self-advocacy, including how to communicate their needs, provide feedback and make complaints. ​ Navigating My Way also aims to empower service providers and support worker to better understand participants with a psychosocial disability, and to create a better complaints culture. Service-provider specific resources are available as part of the project.

The symposium would benefit parents and guardians, educators, health professionals and others who work with youth and children. Since 2013, Australian Rotary Health research projects have focused on the Prevention of MentalHealthofYoungAustraliansandin2023itbeganfundingresearchgrantsaimedat thementalhealthofchildrenaged0-12. The symposium will present the latest research into supporting the mental health and wellbeing of young Tasmanians and enable delegates to discuss the practical application of the research.

Discrimination is costing lives. Every day, people living with mental health conditions are dying from preventable physical illnesses with 46 lives lost daily, each one a tragedy that could have been avoided. On average people living with mental health challenges die 11 years earlier than the general population. Your signature is a powerful act of support. It amplifies our message, strengthens our collective voice, and pushes for the change we so urgently need. The more voices we gather, the harder we are to ignore. This is your chance to make a difference.

Learn about the formation of the National Mental Health Consumer Alliance - the national peak body representing the lived experience voice in mental health reform, of which MHLET is a proud member. The National Mental Health Consumer Alliance was officially recognised in 2024 as the national peak body representing people with lived experience of mental ill-health. The Alliance brings together state and territory consumer peaks - including MHLET - to strengthen the lived experience voice across all levels of mental health reform in Australia.

90-minute webinar featuring leaders from the mental health consumer movement, live Q&A and a look our newly commissioned artwork by lived experience artist Lissy Elliott. Join the National Mental Health Consumer Alliance for the launch of our first Strategic Plan, Reimagining Mental Health — a bold, consumer-led roadmap for national mental health reform. This marks a defining moment in the Australian mental health consumer movement. For over six decades, people with lived experience have led courageous advocacy, transformed public discourse, and laid the foundations for more just, compassionate, and person-led systems. In this 90-minute webinar, you’ll hear from the leaders of this movement as we reflect on the history of consumer activism, celebrate hard-won reforms, and name the barriers that remain. We’ll explore the current policy landscape, our push for a Human Rights Act, and our vision for a future where every person with mental health challenges determines their own needs and wants. There will be a live Q&A and you will hear about opportunities to get involved as a consumer representative or how to stand in allyship with mental health consumers. Whether you’re a consumer, ally, policymaker, peer worker, or sector leader — this event is your invitation to be part of a growing national movement for change.