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TiPS Graduate

Wren Ferguson

They/Them

About

Professional Title

Lived Experience Speaker

Locations

  • All of Victoria
  • Metro East

Areas Of Expertise

  • Advocacy and Inclusion
  • Community
  • Creating Safe and Inclusive Spaces
  • Diversity and Identity
  • Intersectionality and Diversity
  • LGBTIQA+ Awareness and Inclusion
  • Mental Health and Wellbeing
  • Skills and Empowerment

Presentation Topics

  • Advocacy
  • Chronic Illness and Disability
  • Community Engagement
  • Conference presentations
  • Creativity and Communication
  • Education
  • Empowerment
  • Group facilitation
  • Growing up LGBTIQA+ in Regional Areas
  • Healing and Compassion
  • Health Equity
  • Hope for the Future
  • Improving our Impact
  • Inclusion
  • Intersectionality
  • Large groups
  • LGBTIQA+ Advocacy
  • LGBTIQA+ advocacy through storytelling
  • LGBTQI+ visibility
  • Mental Health
  • Neurodiverse Perspective
  • Neuroqueerness
  • Non-binary inclusion
  • Organisational inclusivity
  • Power and Privilege
  • The Trans Experience
  • Transgender and Gender Diverse Inclusivity
  • Using Power and Privilege Well

Open to Negotiating Fees

Yes

Biography

Wren (they/them) is a Non-Binary, Queer, Autistic, Disabled, white person of coloniser decent, based in Naarm/Melbourne.

Wren is currently in their final year of their Occupational Therapy (OT) degree, and is passionate about providing safer and more affirming healthcare. As a graduate of the Telling it With Pride program, they have found love for sharing their joy as a queer person, telling stories of hope and support to foster understanding and inclusion in the broader community.

Outside of their professional life, Wren loves all things nature, spending quality time with loved ones and dipping their toe in a million and one creative pursuits.

Experience

Wren has delivered multiple professional learning presentations for allied health teams in the NDIS space, discussing their experience accessing healthcare as an Autistic person. Combining their learnings as an OT student with their lived experience, they taught to bring awareness to how intersectionality can be considered in healthcare, along with actionable tips for providing safer and more inclusive care.

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