Rights, Voice and Change: Making Experience Count Together in Moray

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About the event

This event brings people together to explore how lived and living experience, human rights‑based approaches and shared data can support better decision‑making, fairer services and stronger mental wellbeing in Moray.

National and local strategies increasingly commit to a rights‑based approach — but many people are asking:
What does that actually look like in practice?
How do lived experiences inform system change?
How can this intelligence be used responsibly and collectively?

This event offers a practical answer.

You’ll hear how partners in Moray are working together to capture, visualise and use lived experience as system intelligence, supporting recovery‑oriented, rights‑based change across services and communities.

What the event will cover

• What a human rights‑based approach means in practice
  An accessible introduction to rights‑based frameworks, including the role of rights holders and duty bearers, and how these ideas are being applied locally and nationally.

• Lived experience as system intelligence
  How collective voice work in Moray gathers lived and living experience in ethical, meaningful and useful ways — and why this matters for policy, planning and delivery.

• Launching a new data visualisation tool
  A first look at a publicly accessible tool that shares lived experience data transparently, responsibly and in ways that can inform change.

• Collective reflection and conversation
  Space to explore what this means for citizens, practitioners, decision‑makers and partners — and how people can engage at different levels.

• What’s next for collective voice and mental wealth in Moray
  How this work connects to wider research, wellbeing indicators and ongoing collaboration, with an open invitation to get involved.

Who should attend?

This event is for:

• People with lived or living experience of mental health, wellbeing, substance use, recovery or related services
• Community groups, peer organisations and citizen‑led initiatives
• Practitioners, managers and staff from health, social care, justice, third sector and public services
• Policy‑makers, planners and strategic leads
• Anyone interested in rights‑based approaches, collective voice, community research and mental wealth

You don’t need prior knowledge of rights‑based approaches or data — this event is designed to be accessible and welcoming.

Why attend?

By the end of the event, you will:

• Have a clearer understanding of how rights‑based approaches can work in practice
• See how lived experience data is being used ethically and collectively
• Know how to access and use the new data visualisation tool
• Understand how your voice, role or organisation can connect with this work
• Be part of a wider conversation about mental wealth, recovery and system change in Moray

Practical details

📅 Date: Thursday 11 June
⏰ Time: 10:30 – 14:00 (with lunch provided)
📍 Location: Laichmoray Hotel, Elgin (Booking is essential)

About the collaboration

This is a Collaboration for Mental Wealth in Moray event, funded through The Young Foundation and UK Research & Innovation (UKRI).

The event is hosted by:

• Moray Alcohol and Drugs Partnership
• Science Ceilidh
• Moray Community Justice Partnership
• Moray Wellbeing Hub
  

Together, we are exploring how collective voice, research and rights‑based approaches can support fairer systems and stronger mental wellbeing.

Accessibility & inclusivity

We are committed to creating a welcoming, inclusive and accessible space.
If you have any access, support or participation needs, please let us know when booking.

About: Collaboration for Mental Wealth in Moray
Hosted by Moray Wellbeing Hub CIC, the Collaboration for Mental Wealth in Moray is a network of partners who are researching what works for creating mental wealth in Moray through the co-creation of solutions and community-driven action. Partners in the network are the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI), Moray Art Development Engagement (M:ADE), tsiMORAY, Science Ceilidh, Arrows (A Quarriers Service), Earthtime for All, and Grampian Regional Equalities Council (GREC).
Project is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and The Young Foundation.