Challenging Stigma Through Storytelling: Staff Perspectives

Join us for a screening and panel discussion of Challenging Stigma Through Storytelling: Staff Perspectives. This event marks the third collaboration between the Health Design Lab at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services (BCMHSUS), focusing on amplifying the voices of BCMHSUS staff with lived experience of mental health and substance use challenges with the goal of fostering understanding and combating workplace stigma.

These videos are part of the Understanding Each Other Together (UNITE) Project—an initiative designed to explore and address experiences of stigma, celebrate diversity, and inspire change within the community. Led by BCMHSUS, the UNITE project highlights the power of storytelling in creating connection and challenging biases.

The panel discussion will focus on the co-design approach used to gather the stories and create the animated videos, and will feature team members from BCMHSUS, the Health Design Lab, and the storytellers themselves.

We will have a dedicated Q&A period for any audience members who would like to learn more about the project or how to apply similar trauma-informed co-design strategies to other projects or initiatives.

This event is open to the public and we welcome anyone to attend, including people working in health on patient experience initiatives, researchers interested in creative knowledge mobilization strategies and designers working in health and community-based contexts.

To view the first two video series and learn more about the project visit here.