Lived Experience Leadership puts the voices of those who have survived sexual exploitation and trafficking at the heart of the Clan Mothers Healing Village.
As Elder Mae Louise Campbell explains:
“It is humanly impossible to feel another’s interior being if you have not lived through their experience. That’s our Indigenous way. That’s what makes us uniquely different. Our Spirit remembers everything through our historical lived-experience, and in turn, we become lived-experience leaders and healers.”
It’s about perspective, wisdom, empathy, courage, accountability, and using personal experience to create meaningful change. Many of our lived-experience leaders work directly in counter-exploitation and trafficking sectors, shaping decisions, policies, and programs.
Nothing about us without us.