The Lived Experience Advisors

The person who understands what a community needs is the person who needed it.

Not a consultant. Not a researcher. Someone who has actually been through the thing — and who can tell us, from the inside, whether what we are building would have helped them when they needed it most.

SoYouAmI™ is a global community platform built by Invicta Child Foundation. Lived Experience Advisors are members who have personal experience of the challenges our platform is here to address — and who are willing to tell us honestly when we are getting it right and when we are missing the mark.

Experiences we are especially seeking:

• Mental health — depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, OCD, and others
• Grief and bereavement — losing someone central to your life
• Chronic illness or invisible conditions — living with what others cannot see
• Addiction and recovery
• Domestic abuse or coercive control — having survived and rebuilt
• Being a carer for someone you love when it costs you deeply
• Migration, displacement, or refugee experience
• Racial trauma — the specific toll of discrimination on identity and daily life
• Any experience that shaped you in ways most platforms have never acknowledged

Here is what Lived Experience Advisors do:

• Be an active member of SoYouAmI™ — post your stories, engage with the community
• Tell us honestly when features, policies, or content miss the mark for people like you
• Review Safe Space guidelines, resource content, and platform wording through the lens of your experience
• Advise on what kinds of events and spaces would be most meaningful for your community
• Help us understand what trust looks like for communities who have been failed before

When you join, you get:

• A Lived Experience Advisor badge on your profile
• The knowledge that your hardest experiences are being used to help others
• Direct influence over how this platform serves the communities it was built for