What is the lived experience framework? The Framework acknowledges that everyone brings their own lived experience, and that the Framework is focused on occasions where people are specifically asked to bring their lived experience to the workplace through advice, expertise and specific interventions.

A powerful way to understand oneself and one’s multiple identities is to situate one’s experiences within multiple levels of analysis—micro – (individual), meso- (group), macro- (structural), and global. These levels of analysis offer different analytical approaches to understanding a social phenomenon.