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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Elements define the essential outcomes
2. Clarify organisation context for using lived experience
   • Confirm organisation’s expectations of the use of lived experience in the course of peer work
   • Apply organisation policy and guidelines in relation to using lived experience in peer work, especially in relation to safe disclosure and public disclosure
   • Determine the extent and the types of stories to be shared from own lived experience
3. Determine boundaries of sharing lived experience and prepare aspects of consumer/carer’s story
   • Establish appropriate personal boundaries and guidelines
   • Apply varied levels of sharing in relation to lived experience
   • Evaluate and select options in framing stories for different purposes
   • Consider privacy in developing parameters of stories to be told or written
   • Obtain clear and consent from others before including them in any story
   • Review impact of sharing lived experience and make determination to proceed or vary level of disclosure
   • Seek input from experienced peers about ways to effectively use lived experience in peer work
4. Use lived experience to establish role in peer work
   • Ensure sharing is positive, purposeful and within the philosophical framework of peer ethics, values, role definition and organisation requirements
   • Recognise and address the potential impacts and implications of sharing aspects of own personal story on consumers, carers, other staff and upon the organisation
   • Recognise sharing of own personal story is one component of job role
5. Maintain a safe working relationship in relation to lived experience in peer work
   • Engage in debriefing and peer supervision according to identified needs
   • Recognise and take action to attend to own vulnerabilities associated with use of lived experience in peer work
   • Recognise and take action to attend to own vulnerabilities associated with vicarious trauma
6. Utilise responsible self-care strategies
   • Apply strategies to address personal physical and emotional needs
   • Maintain a positive work life balance and personal wellness plan
   • Negotiate reasonable adjustments in the workplace to meet own self-care requirements
7. Determine boundaries of sharing lived experience and prepare aspects of consumer/carer’s story
   • Establish appropriate personal boundaries and guidelines
   • Apply varied levels of sharing in relation to lived experience
   • Evaluate and select options in framing stories for different purposes
   • Consider privacy in developing parameters of stories to be told or written
   • Obtain clear and consent from others before including them in any story
   • Review impact of sharing lived experience and make determination to proceed or vary level of disclosure
   • Seek input from experienced peers about ways to effectively use lived experience in peer work