About Us
The NT Lived Experience Network is a growing movement of Territorians using their lived experience of mental health challenges, trauma, suicidality, or issues with alcohol, drugs or gambling to create positive change.
By becoming a member, you’ll be helping us build a stronger voice for lived experience advocacy across the Northern Territory. Together, we can influence government decision-making, improve services, and support better outcomes for people across the NT – now and into the future.
We want you to be involved
We have reached milestone in our journey, and on the 13th of December 2025 will host our Formation Meeting as the final step to becoming a fully incorporated Not-For-Profit organisation in the Northern Territory. Our Formation Meeting is an important opportunity for all of our members to come together, to agree on our Constitution, and to form our First Board.
We invite all Territorians with lived experience to join as members and get involved. To help you understand more about our Network, an overview of our purpose and our proposed governance model—drawn from our draft Constitution—is provided below. All members will receive a copy of the draft Constitution and an invitation to to self-nominate for our First Board before our Formation Meeting on the 13th of December. Once our Constitution and First Board are finalized we will share that information through our website.
Our Purpose
The NT Lived Experience Network exists to reduce the distress, disadvantage and discrimination faced by people living with mental health challenges, trauma, suicidality, or issues related to alcohol, drugs or gambling. We do this by promoting people’s rights, supporting recovery and self-determination, and ensuring lived experience voices are heard in the decisions that affect them. We help people build confidence, skills and connections, support families and kin, and strengthen the peer workforce across the NT. We strive to ensure that lived experience knowledge and perspectives meaningfully inform how services operate and how system-level decisions are made, and that people with greater barriers or less visibility have an equitable voice. Our goal is to help create a service system that is safe, respectful, culturally appropriate, equitable, and guided by what people say they need. In all of this, we aim to be a responsible, sustainable and community-led organisation that stays focused on what matters most to the people we represent.
Our Proposed Governance Model
Become a Member
Fill in our online Membership Application Form (CLICK HERE).
You can become a full member with voting rights (and the ability to join our First Board) if you:
- Are committed to full supporting the values and mission of the NT Lived Experience Network, and
- Live in the Northern Territory most of the time, and
- Identify as having challenges related to your wellbeing (now or in the past) including:
- Challenges related to your mental health,
- Experiences of trauma,
- Experiences of suicidality, and/or
- Problems related to your use of alcohol, drugs or gambling
Support our Formation Meeting
We are inviting all of our members to support our process of becoming incorporated by attending our Formation Meeting and if they are interested, to self-nominate for the Board.
We want to ensure a diversity of lived experience voices across the breadth of the NT are able to contribute to our organisations governance and leadership and strongly encourage all of our members to be involved.
Please note that you can only vote at the Formation Meeting and self-nominate for the First Board if you are a Full Member.
RSVP to attend our Formation Meeting
RSVP to attend our Formation Meeting (CLICK HERE) on
Saturday the 13th of December from 10 am to 12 pm.
The purpose of our Formation Meeting is to finalize our Constitution and elect our first Board.
You can join the meeting either online or in person (if you live in Greater Darwin).
We will send you the online meeting details or address once you have submitted your RSVP.
Self-Nominate for our First Board
To self-nominate for our First Board please complete a Self-Nomination Form (CLICK HERE). You are also able to self-nominate at the Formation Meeting.
Please note that to be eligible to Self-Nominate you need to have joined as a Member and meet the Full Membership Requirements (listed above).
Please consider self-nominating to join our First Board.
Support Us
Support us by sharing information about our Network and the opportunity to join. This will support us to grow our influence and ensure we represent the diversity of voices of people with lived experience in the Northern Territory.
- Print and display our poster (click here)
- Print and share our Membership form (click here)
- Share our social media tile and tag us using @livedexperiencent on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn
- Email the link to this page to your family, friends and people in your personal networks
