MindLabs
The engine room of innovation
MindLabs brings together the skills and knowledge of people with lived experience, clinicians, researchers, health service managers and the community to maximise the impact of collaboration, co-design and partnerships.
Through research support, a learning hub and consultancy service, MindLabs nurtures new ideas and builds the skills and capacity to drive practice innovation and make a difference in people’s lives.
Lived experience
Listening to people’s stories
The voices of people with lived experience, and their carers and families, are at the centre of Mindgardens’ research and capacity building work in mental health, drug and alcohol and neurological disorders.
Those who live with these conditions gain unique knowledge from their experiences and the choices they make about treatment and support. Mindgardens honours this expertise and is developing new ways to integrate the full diversity of lived experience with professional understanding.
Mindgardens Neuroscience Network acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures, and to Elders past, present and emerging.
We acknowledge the voices of people with lived experience, their carers, families and kinship groups. We recognise the expertise acquired through living with a mental health, drug and alcohol or neurological disorder and acknowledge those who care for people on their recovery journey. We place lived experience at the heart of all that we do.
Brings together the strengths of four founding organisations
