Full Program

In this session the data collected through the focus group activity on the key principles for integrating experiential knowledge in Social work and Nursing education programs will be presented. The focus groups realized by each partner in different participating countries involved educators, students and experts by experience. The session will be an opportunity to discuss the findings together, co-creating further knowledge through a transnational perspective.

Workshop led by: Camilla Landi and Marco Grassini, researchers from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy.

Room: Eden 129.

Inspired by Augusto Boal and his Theatre of the Oppressed, we would like to show how lack of organizational frames can be harmful for experiential learning in higher education. Forum theater requires participation from the participants in the workshop.

Workshop led by: Mette Fløystad Kvammen, Jorunn Gjedrem, Heidi Esma Dahl Bønnhoff and Wibekke Adele Grønlund, researchers from Adger University, Norway.

Room: Gamla Köket 208.

In this session, we introduce the master Experiential Expertise. We explain why we thought it was important to develop it and for which roles in society the masters experiential expertise are educated. Three of the students will talk about their experiences until now, and they will show some of the products that have already been developed by their fellow students. We end with an interactive part in which we encourage participants to imagine what a world with experts by experience in leadership positions might look like…

Workshop led by: Denny Kroneman, Melissa Gellecom, Rob Bakker and Rosalie Metze

Room: Gamla Köket 107.

This workshop is an opportunity for us, people with lived experience of exclusion and recovery. We can exchange how we work at different universities and in other organisations. Who are we employed by? How to connect? Existing international networks?

Workshop led by: Maria Samuelsson 

Room: Gamla Köket 128.

Through the World cafe technique, participants will be invited to group discussions on the integration of experiential knowledge in Social work and Nursing education. A living network of collaborative dialogue around compelling questions will be useful to share and connect different ideas, views and experiences on the topic, looking for facilitating and hindering elements concerning the integration of experts by experience in higher education programs.

Workshop led by: Elena Cabiati, Camilla Landi and Marco Grassini, researchers from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy.

Room: Eden 129.

I will discuss the gap mending module I run at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Through collaborative reflection and project development, this offers students a unique opportunity to gain valuable insights and understanding by listening to and learning from service users’ perspectives and life experiences.

Workshop led by: Dr Colin Cameron, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Room: Gamla Köket 128.

Peer support and the use of experiential knowledge with holistic and recovery approach, challenge traditional methods and represent a paradigm shift along the lines with providing homeless people who are not “housing-ready” with a home and person-centered support, as in Housing First.  
Since 2017, we’ve been working on implementing peer support in a communal Housing First section in an integrated manner. What we’ve done is unique in Sweden. We will share the journey, the parallels between the two models and their implementation, the advantages we see with peer support in Housing First, along with the challenges we’ve encountered.

Workshop led by: Ninja Larsson and peer supporters Ingalill Massiani, Stellan Sjöberg and Freddot Carlsson Andersson.

Room: Gamla Köket 107.

What is important for you as an expert by experience in your involvement in higher education? We are happy to share our toolkit to support higher education institutions with this but would like to incorporate your input through this workshop.

Workshop led by: Lien Frissen researcher from UCLL, Kristel Driessens, Pascal Maes and Caro Bridts (expert by experience) researchers from KdG, Belgium.

Room: Gamla Köket 108.

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13:15 - 15:00 Children in alternative care’s participation in social change, a workhop hosted by SASUF.

This workshop invites attendees to explore responses to questions about the participation of children in alternative care. Similar challenges have been identified in South Africa and Sweden, signaling that children in care need to be heard and respected for their capabilities to influence social change. Including coffee berak!
Organized by: Lund University, Stellenbosch University, University of Fort Hare, University of Gothenburg, Sol Plaatje University, University West, and University of Pretoria.
Sign up to: marianne [dot] larsson_lindahl [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se (marianne[dot]larsson_lindahl[at]soch[dot]lu[dot]se)
Room: Gamla Köket 208.

We explore the concept of experiential learning and deepen it with insights from educational researchers (Andresen et al.), critical pedagogy (Freire, Maschelein) and social learning (Wenger & Wenger). We are looking for ‘a pedagogy of experiential learning’ that can serve to develop experiential knowledge.

Workshop led by: Prof. dr. Jean Pierre Wilken from University of Applied Sciences Utrecht

Room: Eden 129.

I teach at the Nursing Bachelor in Utrecht, and we've had Expert by Experience (EbE) teachers for quite a while now, following the Commune Project we've participated in. I'd like to share our experiences, specifically with intergrating EbE lessons in a Nursing Curriculum.

Themes that colud be discussed are:

• Connecting EbE themes with a nursing curriculum
• Integrating EbE as employed teachers
• Co-teaching between teachers with a nursing background and an EbE background.

Workshop led by: Kornelis Jan van der Vaart from University of Applied Sciences Utrecht

Room: Gamla Köket 107.

Exploring the evidence-base and future possibilities for embedding experiential knowledge in child protection.

This workshop, delivered by the international leaders in parent advocacy in child protection research, provides an expansive and in-depth exploration of parent advocacy from conceptualization to outcome achievement, inviting participants to reflect together on the personal, interpersonal, and structural conditions needed for embedding parents’ experiential knowledge in child protection.

Workshop led by: Dr Marina Lalayants, Professor, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, New York City, NY USA and Dr Jeri L. Damman, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Social Work & Social Care, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Room: Gamla Köket 128.

Inspired by Augusto Boal and his Theatre of the Oppressed, we would like to show how lack of organizational frames can be harmful for experiential learning in higher education. Forum theater requires participation from the participants in the workshop.

Workshop led by: Mette Fløystad Kvammen, Jorunn Gjedrem, Heidi Esma Dahl Bønnhoff and Wibekke Adele Grønlund, researchers from Adger University, Norway.

Room: Gamla Köket 208.

We work with a supportive creative working method, called 'the life tree'. Previous workshops have shown that physical movement during the sessions leads to different conversations. This workshop is a first step towards the implementation of experiential knowledge in education. In addition, the workshop offers the opportunity to discuss possible next steps in implementing experiential knowledge.

Today we want to go a step further by looking beyond what makes this workshop powerful, what it does for teachers and why it can be valuable to give the workshop together with a student.

Workshop led by: Rachelle de Mooij (student) & Rian Koot (teacher and researcher) from University of Applied Science Utrecht, the Netherlands

Room: Gamla Köket 208.

Who better than people living in poverty and social exclusion to explain what is poverty and social exclusion is? Who better than social service users to share their experience of social services? We will present a project aiming at supporting social work clients to build a collective knowledge from their life-experiences and share it with social work students, becoming peer-teachers.

Workshop led by: Dina Ben Ezra, Sylvie Lamerand & Lisa Brochain

Room: Gamla Köket 128.

The Carers and Users (CU) group, the creation of a core group of people who have been involved in influencing the use of experiential knowledge across the social work programs. Elinor has been a member of the CU group for 20 years and has been involved in creative ways of sharing learning in a safe, non-threatening environment. Having a core group of people has been a key strength of what has been achieved in user involvement at the university of Dundee. 

This workshop will examine the role and responsibilities of the CU group, and using this context, the workshop will open discussion on the benefits (for service users, carers, students, and lecturers) of organizing user involvement through a core group of experts attached to a university.

Workshop led by: Elinor Dowson, Carers and Users Group, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK; Susan Levy, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK 

Room: Gamla Köket 107.

Support for parents, from parents with their own experience of parenting with separated children through social services.

Why is it so important to have an experience perspective in child welfare? That is what we discuss this session.

Malin and Merethe got in touch many years ago based on the fact that they both worked voluntarily in the non-profit sector with one of the most difficult things you can work with - parents with "broken parenthood", i.e. families with experience of LVU. Malin in Sweden with Maskrosföräldrar and Merethe in the Norwegian counterparts OBF. We believe that it is extremely important for both the professionals in the case and for the parents. It gives hope and weight and comprehensibility throughout the process, understanding of the legislation and the way forward. 

For more information: https://parentadvocacy.net/

Workshop led by: Merethe Løland, CEO of OBF. Has a background as a child care child, child care mother, foster mother and peer/experience consultant. Has experience as a support person for several hundred parents. Chairperson of OBF 2015-2023.  

Malin Widerlöv Krook, "expert-by-experience-teacher" at Lund University, president of IPAN – International Parent Advocacy Network, former chairman of Maskrosföräldrar and today chairman of Socialkraft

Room: Eden 129.

What is important for you as an expert by experience in your involvement in higher education? We are happy to share our toolkit to support higher education institutions with this but would like to incorporate your input through this workshop.

Workshop led by: Lien Frissen researcher from UCLL, Kristel Driessens and Caro Bridts (expert by experience) researchers from KdG, Belgium.

Room: Gamla Köket 208.

In my own journey during the master experiential expertise and in conversations with colleagues I observe a returning struggle in conversations concerning whose experiential knowledge ‘counts’. These discussions sometimes resolve in a form of exclusion while we all want to work towards inclusion. I see some resemblance with other emancipation movements in the past. To have a dialogue about this and find common ground within the diversity of experiences is key and maybe one of the first steps when integrating experiential knowledge.

Workshop led by: Silvana Palazzo (expert by experience) and Rian Koot, researchers from Applied University Utrecht 

Room: Gamla Köket 107.

In this workshop Cecilia Heule and Astrid Bakker will talk about how their experiences of developing a community house in Amsterdam in the 80:ies has been an inspiration in developing later community & strength based practices like the Mobilisation course in Lund and Treasure House in Amsterdam. We will talk about how both positive and negative life experiences can be part of a learning process that enables the implementation of new practices and relationships.

Workshop led by: PhD Cecilia Heule and Astrid Bakker from Lund University

Room: Gamla Köket 128.

During the project Experiential Knowledge in higher Education, we’ve collected and described different methods and activities where experiential knowledge is integrated education. The goal is to provide lecturers with didactical materials to use in their classes where experiential knowledge is a vital element. We would like to present the ‘concept’ of the guide and hear from participants if and how the guide could support them in integrating experiential knowledge in their own education. With the input we can tune the guide in a defined version

Workshop led by: Sascha van Gijzel from University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and Rosalie Metze from Windesheim University of Applied Sciences.

Room: Gamla Köket 108.

13:45 -15:00 Lecture and panel discussion based on Lund's Fountain-house study and job unit. The unit is run based on the Lunda model, a concept where the individual-oriented support models Supported education (SEd) and Individual placement and support (IPS) are combined with the Fontainhouse model and it’s focus on group activities, collective support, participation, salutogenesis and community. The unit receives targeted funding from, among others, Lund University. The unit annually provides support to over 250 individuals with mental illness in their quest to expand their social networks, increase their quality of life and pursue study and work-oriented goals

15:00 -15:20 Break

15:20- 16:20 ”Krångliga människor” - A theatrical performance about diagnoses, not fitting in and pure madness. We get to know the tribulations of a complicated medium to be seen and heard to get his message out. They offer rental diagnoses as well as being able to answer basically any question about complicated people.

Members from Lund's Fountainhouse and the project Joint Attention have created a collage of stories based on the participants' lives. The process started in February 2023 and premiered at the end of May. The theater performance Complicated People is a meeting place to talk about norms, taboos and community.

The performance takes about 40 minutes and afterwards we invite you to an audience discussion where you can meet participants from the project who talk about their journeys through Joint Attention.

16:30 Lund's Fontainhouse offers food (Chili sin carne) both in their beautiful garden and indoors. Possibility to get a tour of the house, sing karaoke, attend open mic etc.