Today I was honoured to feature on 9News Melbourne and speak up about the lived experiences of people who have survived the Victorian Mental Health System. Here's to a future of reform, inclusion, listening and empathy. x.com/9NewsMelb/stat…

Thank you 9News Melbourne Mark Santomartino for having me speak on the latest of the Victorian mental health budget - along with the importance of mental health literacy and education in schools. Funding mental health is an investment we must prioritise - and we will certainly see returns.

Reading Group is turning into Film Club! Facilitated by Hannah G Friebel, in October (Mental Health Month), we've been invited to view 'Sincerely Survivor'. Details are up on our website now: madstudiesmelb.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/octobe…

Today I had the privilege of speaking at the #TheMHSConference2021 with Jennifer Greenham from @SpiritualHlth. I read a story about the Soul Bird that lives within us, and spoke on my lived experience, including a new model for healing: the biopsychosocial-spiritual approach.

So pleased to be learning from an incredible international network of lived experience academics today via Service Users Academia Symposium Centre for Mental Health Nursing Such crucial conversations as we consider a future mental health system that is #consumerled and inclusive for all.

It was such a pleasure to share the work of Sincerely Survivor with Melbourne Mad Studies Network last year, thank you to all that joined and watched our film. Sign up to our mailing list to stay in touch with what is to come :)

Collaborate with me in 2022! We are recruiting 6 female identifying dancers with lived experience of mental ill health/neurodiversity - to develop a new dance work exploring the intersections of dance, peer support and mental health recovery. Apply today forms.gle/RQDyPNCkZAwmbs…

You capture people’s minds with strategy and tangible actions, HOWEVER you capture people’s hearts with an organisation’s vision, mission and values. ⁃ Tim Marney on Strategic Planning for Boards, Consumers Leading in Governance via VMIAC

Critical Allyship is a solidarity approach for those who want to reorient their positions from *saving* to *critical allyship* with those most disadvantaged by these structures. - A/Prof Luke Burchill, Yorta Yorta & Dja Dja Wurrung man on Culturally Adaptive Governance via VMIAC

I’m pleased to be presenting at the Victorian Transcultural Mental Health seminar exploring mental health, lived experience and spirituality. Join me and my peers from the @SpiritualHlth Lived Experience Advisory Committee on 20 July - book via VTMH below vtmh.org.au/events/vtmh-ju…

I can’t wait to be greeting new audiences tomorrow night with a QnA screening of Sincerely Survivor at The Big Anxiety Festival. This work represents such a huge part of my recovery journey - also a form of art based research toward the MH system. Join us! thebiganxiety.org/events/sincere…

What a wild time this week has been! So pleased to have presented at the TheMHS Learning Network conference in Sydney - sharing consumer perspectives on sexual safety in mental health. Thanks to Monash Health for supporting me to speak on a national level about such an important topic.

1/4 Neurodivergent Survivor-turned-Thriver of the mental health system, Hannah G Friebel is a mental health consultant and researcher who encompasses the arts, peer support and storytelling as a form of spiritual healing for people with a lived experience of mental health.

Thank you to Wellways for having me in the 3CR Community Radio Brainwaves Radio show today, sharing about spiritual care, lived experience and mental health! For those of you that wish to listen to the recording, you can access the link to the podcast below! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/han…