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’.

Changing Minds partnered with Tall Tree Jared Flitcroft (Ngāti Maniapoto) of JPF Films, to deliver a Deaf Video series - by and for the Deaf community. This series is designed to raise awareness around mental distress, and the particular challenges faced by the Deaf that other resources have missed.

Rose is 10 years into her recovery journey, after decades of gambling harm. When she first reached out to services, it was more around addiction and mental health support, rather than gambling harm. 'I didn't recognise my own gambling addiction,' Rose says, 'because gambling had been so normalised throughout my life.’

As a writer and actor, Lisa sees theatre as having a pivotal part to play in shining a light on areas of society that are frequently hidden or covered up, like mental distress and well-being. "Not talking about an issue doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist," she says. "Bringing it out into the open is the first step towards understanding."

Sarah Rowland is a co-founder and co-chair of EDCS NZ, the Eating Disorders Carer Support network, and a proud Tall Tree, after completing the Rākau Roroa online training this year.