What I Offer | Carrie Lumby

I support community engagement and co-design initiatives and the people and organisations doing this work.

PROJECT LEAD & FACILITATOR

I lead and support the delivery of community engagement and co-design projects - including background scoping, workshop design and facilitation, report writing and implementation advice.

I have extensive experience designing purposeful processes that proactively establish the conditions for meaningful and equitable participation.

My facilitation techniques are informed by critical social work theory and practice-based learning in justice-oriented approaches.

I am highly skilled in working ethically and productively with power across difference, including with people subject to systemic harm and oppression.

ADVISOR & CAPABILITY BUILDER

I provide expert guidance on engaging people with lived experience and wider communities in specific projects and support organisations to strengthen their systemic capability for lived experience participation and partnership.

I can advise on approach at a project’s scoping phase or be part of a project team for longer-term work. This could include developing engagement strategies, frameworks, and associated resources, as well as supporting their implementation.

My work is informed by a robust understanding of participatory methodologies such as co-design and co-production, as well as practical experience applying these approaches in public policy and human services contexts.

MENTOR & SUPERVISOR

I mentor people seeking a trusted space to explore the challenges and opportunities associated with doing purposeful co-design and engagement work. I also provide formal supervision to people working in Lived Experience identified roles and advocates seeking to develop their influencing skills.

I take a strengths-based and justice-oriented approach - supporting a person to draw on their existing knowledge, skills and personal resources to find creative and ethically sustainable ways to meet professional challenges – while also offering insights based on my own practice reflections.

My approach integrates critical social work concepts, peer work principles, and the practice wisdom I have developed through community advocacy and development work, and as a peer worker and workshop facilitator.