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In this deeply moving and powerful conversation, I sit down with Kerri Butler — founder of Take Notice, mental health advocate, and lived experience leader — to explore a journey shaped by resilience, whakapapa, injustice, healing, and the courage to keep fighting for change.
Kerri shares her personal experiences navigating the mental health system, the profound impact of her beloved nana’s journey through institutional care, and how witnessing systemic harm ignited a lifelong commitment to advocacy and transformation. Together, we discuss Māori wellbeing, lived experience leadership, rangatiratanga, intergenerational trauma, compulsory treatment orders, restraint and seclusion, and what true healing and partnership in mental health care could look like.
This is not just a conversation about mental health systems — it is a conversation about dignity, voice, identity, cultural connection, and the importance of creating spaces where people feel genuinely seen, heard, and understood. Kerri also shares the story behind Tūmata Kōkiritia, a kaupapa grounded in whānau voices and collective healing, and why community-led solutions matter now more than ever.
There are moments in this kōrero that are heartbreaking, confronting, hopeful, and deeply human. At its heart, this episode asks an important question: How do we create systems that heal?