Mary McConnell
Commissioning Coordinator Redevelopment Jondalup Health Campus
(PAID) Health Facilities Design & Development Summit
4:00 PM Co-Creation in Practice: The Making of Joondalup's Award Winning Mental Health Unit
Collaboration across sectors, disciplines, and lived experience can radically shift how mental health spaces are conceived. When design reflects safety, sunlight, and connection to the outdoors, recovery becomes a supported and shared goal. Engaging staff and former patients as design partners ensures dignity is embedded in every decision. This approach demonstrates how healing environments emerge when clinical insight, co-design, and construction work as one—redefining what safe, respectful, and recovery-oriented care can look like.
- Maximising light, outdoor and secure places
- Creating an engaging atmosphere that supports recovery and has lead to less damage
- Ensuring former patients and staff felt their opinions were heard and valid
- Working closely with mental health practitioners to ensure the engagement process is as smooth and proactive as possible
Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Mary.
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