As we embrace Mental Health Awareness Week in Aotearoa, Changing Minds shares a series of thought pieces on belonging and community. This article shares some ideas of what organisations and communities can do to create spaces for belonging.

As we embrace Mental Health Awareness Week in Aotearoa, Changing Minds shares a series of thought pieces on belonging and community. This article discusses what we’ve learned at Changing Minds from seeking community involvement and how that relates to leadership, active participation, and belonging.

As we embrace Mental Health Awareness Week in Aotearoa, Changing Minds shares a series of thought pieces on belonging and community. This article discusses the different roles people play within community and the power of the collective Lived Experience voice.

As we embrace Mental Health Awareness Week in Aotearoa, Changing Minds shares a series of thought pieces on belonging and community. This article discusses the meaning of community and the drive behind the Changing Minds’ community of collective action.

As we embrace Mental Health Awareness Week in Aotearoa, Changing Minds shares a series of thought pieces on belonging and community. This first article looks at the place of selfhood and choice in belonging, which isn't limited to social connection. 

Here, we share how the political parties responded to our letter asking them how they will serve the Lived Experience community if elected at the General Election 2026.

Changing Minds has heard from our community through research, kōrero and engagement on what they want MPs and decision makers to know about Lived Experience ahead of the 2026 General Election.

Megan, Engagement and Insights Manager at Changing Minds, shares her reflections on 2025 in this piece that talks about working and welcoming in the Lived Experience space.

Dr Snita Ahir-Knight is a trained child and adolescent therapist, social worker and university lecturer with more than 15 years’ experience working in the not-for-profit, community, and mental health sectors. This is the fourth and final in a series of written pieces for Changing Minds and here she talks about the balance of honouring silence and sharing for collective healing.

Dr Snita Ahir-Knight is a trained child and adolescent therapist, social worker and university lecturer with more than 15 years’ experience working in the not-for-profit, community, and mental health sectors. This is the third in a series of written pieces for Changing Minds and here she shares how she finds meaning in words and the importance of accepting different perspectives.

Dr Snita Ahir-Knight is a trained child and adolescent therapist, social worker and university lecturer with more than 15 years’ experience working in the not-for-profit, community, and mental health sectors. This is the second in a series of written pieces for Changing Minds and here she shares how she turned her Lived Experience into productive change in the workplace.

Dr Snita Ahir-Knight is a trained child and adolescent therapist, social worker and university lecturer with more than 15 years’ experience working in the not-for-profit, community, and mental health sectors. This is the first in a series of written pieces for Changing Minds where she shares her Lived Experience of ‘living with madness and a differently wired brain’.