< Back to directory
TiPS Graduate

Ruben Carley-Franklin

he/they

About

Professional Title

LGBTIQA+ Lived Experience worker

Locations

  • Melbourne CBD
  • Metro North
  • Metro South
  • Metro East
  • Metro West

Areas Of Expertise

  • Advocacy and Inclusion
  • Community
  • Creating Safe and Inclusive Spaces
  • Creative Expression and Activism
  • Diversity and Identity
  • Intersectionality and Diversity
  • LGBTIQA+ Awareness and Inclusion
  • Mental Health and Wellbeing

Presentation Topics

  • Advocacy
  • Awareness storytelling
  • Community Engagement
  • Creativity and Communication
  • DEI
  • Empowerment
  • Growing up LGBTIQA+ in Regional Areas
  • Healing and Compassion
  • Hope for the Future
  • Inclusion
  • Intersectionality
  • LGBTIQA+ Advocacy
  • LGBTIQA+ advocacy through storytelling
  • Mental Health
  • Neuroqueerness
  • Non-binary inclusion
  • Organisational change
  • Power and Privilege
  • Preventing Future Harm
  • Queer activism
  • Solidarity
  • The Trans Experience
  • Transgender and Gender Diverse Identities
  • Transgender and Gender Diverse Inclusivity
  • Using Power and Privilege Well

Socials

Open to Negotiating Fees

Yes

Biography

Ruben is a passionate mental health Lived Experience advocate, with extensive experience of bringing their intersectional identities into story sharing, and through their work in peer support and consumer consultation. Their neurodivergent identity, as well as their existence as a trans person, shape the ways they share, and they approach presenting with the aim of fostering mutual connection and trading of perspectives.

They build their work on the foundations of civil rights and social justice, and on the values of passion, authenticity, and honesty. They believe in the power of intentional language, and explore creative storytelling as a tool for change.

Ruben speaks through metaphor and strong imagery, exploring pain with a purpose, always centering resistance through joy, and liberation through community.

Experience

Ruben has been sharing their story in the Lived Experience space since 2019, and has extensive knowledge of intentional disclosure. They have also trained as a speaker both in the context of mental health, and LGBTIQA+ experiences.

They have run presentations at their workplace, and at networking events within the Lived Experience space. They have spoken as a panelist on the topic of supporting trans and gender diverse people in mental health services, and have run an open mic night for members of the trans community.

Book a Speaker