Morgan Lee Cataldo

Daniel talks to Morgan about the growing lived experience and peer support movements and some of the current challenges and opportunities for the practice of consumer participation within organisations and systems. She shares her thoughts on a wide range of topics and offers a range of resources for people who want more.

Morgan is a social innovation trainer and consultant, as well as the Senior Manager Youth Engagement at Berry Street where she leads the Y-Change initiative. Find out more about Morgan’s work here: www.linkedin.com/in/morganleecataldo

This episode was recorded on 23 August 2022 and broadcast on 18 January 2023.

Resources mentioned:

Understand and reckon with power (personal and structural)

• Lukes and Gaventa – Three Faces of Power
• Maya Goodwill – Power Literacy Toolkit
• VeneKlasen and Miller – Power as a positive force

Understand systems thinking and value different ways of knowing, being and doing

• Donella Meadows – Dancing with Systems
• Nora Bateson – Warm Data
• Paul Callaghan and Uncle Paul Gordon – The Dreaming Path

Understand the impacts of personal and systemic trauma

• Gabor Mate – The Myth of Normal
• Good Therapy – Systemic trauma
• Judy Atkinson – Trauma Trails

Use creative and alternative communication methods

• Noterie Abrams & Jerrod Schwarz – Make Blackout Poetry: Activist Edition
• Poetry Foundation – Poems of Protest, Resistance, and Empowerment
• We Al-li – Dadirri