The Lived Experience Lab
The Challenge
Your organization recognizes the importance of lived experience, but translating that commitment into meaningful practice isn't always straightforward. You might need to demonstrate why lived experience deserves investment, establish an advisory structure, strengthen existing engagement efforts, share institutional influence, or understand whether participation is actually making a difference. You know that the perspectives of people closest to the challenges you're working to address are invaluable. But creating the conditions for those perspectives to meaningfully shape decisions requires more than good intentions. You don't need another symbolic initiative. You need a way to turn lived experience into meaningful organizational influence.
What T&P Will Do
We'll partner with your organization to examine how lived experience is currently understood, valued, and incorporated into your work. Through organizational discovery, strategic assessment, and collaborative dialogue, we'll identify your most pressing opportunities and help determine where focused investment can make the greatest difference. Together, we'll select one strategic pathway that reflects your organization's needs, priorities, and readiness. Your pathway might focus on developing a compelling business case for lived experience investment, designing a patient or community advisory structure, examining the experiences of people navigating your services, strengthening shared decision-making and institutional influence, or developing a framework to measure the impact of lived experience engagement. Rather than prescribing a solution before understanding your challenge, we'll help you identify the right direction and develop a practical strategy to move forward.
What You'll Receive
Organizational Discovery & Readiness Assessment: Initial consultation and focused assessment of your organization's current approach to lived experience engagement.
Strategic Resource Review: Review of up to five relevant organizational documents, engagement materials, or existing frameworks.
Stakeholder Discovery: Up to four stakeholder interviews to understand organizational priorities, existing practices, and opportunities for improvement.
Collaborative Pathway Selection: One 90-minute strategy session to review assessment findings and jointly select the strategic pathway that best addresses your organization's needs.
Customized Strategic Deliverable: A tailored framework, business case, advisory model, engagement strategy, or impact measurement approach aligned with the selected pathway.
Implementation Recommendations: Prioritized recommendations and a practical 90-day roadmap to help translate the strategy into organizational action.
Executive Strategy & Handoff Session: One 60-minute presentation of findings, recommendations, and next steps.
Proposed Timeline & Delivery
Approximately 8–12 weeks, virtual. We'll work together to establish a mutually agreeable timeline that reflects your team's needs, priorities, and availability.