Welcome!
Welcome to Renai Buchanan: Peer Practice & Possibility, where supervision becomes a space of reflection, reimagining, and radical relationality. Rooted in lived experience, my practice centres ethical inquiry, mutual learning, and the co-creation of helpful, hope-filled practice—across disciplines, systems, and sectors.
Whether you’re a peer worker, leader, clinician, or someone moving through complex systems with care, you are welcome here.
🜁 Supervision that sees the soul behind the role
🜁 Training that makes space for different ways of knowing
🜁 Consultation that values truth-telling, tenderness, and transformation
About Renai
Hi, I’m Renai Buchanan (she/they). I’m a queer, neurodivergent, chronically ill, and reasonably mad human who has been working in Lived Experience spaces for almost two decades. I come to this work shaped by both grassroots movements and formal systems, with a deep commitment to connection, community, and justice.
Over the years, I’ve worked in mental health, LGBTIQA+, sex work, disability, and suicide prevention spaces. I’ve held roles in grassroots spaces, on the frontlines and in various levels of leadership. I’ve worked in grassroots spaces, NGO's, peer-led organisations, and state government..
My practice is grounded in authenticity, accountability, connection, and a belief in human rights. I believe that when lived experience leads, change becomes more honest, ethical, and possible. I focus on co-creating reflective spaces where people across disciplines can challenge assumptions, explore power, and practice more relational, justice-informed care.
Outside of work, I’m with my tiny humans, my wife, and our village. You’ll find us surrounded by Lego, lullabies, and laundry, living an ordinary yet magical and joy-filled life.
Here are some of the trainings and programs that support my practice:
MHM2 Applied Lived Experience Supervision Skills Course (2025)Curtin Valuing Lived Experience Program (2023)
Emotional CPR Trainer Certification (2024)
Intentional Peer Support (2022)
WA Recovery College Educator Foundation Program (2024)
CoMHWA Peer Supervision Course (2022)
Alternatives to Suicide Facilitator Training (2018)
Emotional CPR Practitioner (2021)
This list doesn’t include the books, conversations, memberships, and everyday moments that also shape how I show up in this work. I’m always learning, unlearning, and finding new ways to grow.
Services offered
Peer Supervision 1:1
Relational, reflective spaces for peer workers, clinicians, and lived experience leaders.Together, we explore your practice, unpack power, hold complexity, and reimagine what helpful help looks like. Rooted in lived experience, guided by justice, and always human first.
Click here to read more about my supervision practice
Group Supervision & Co-Reflection
Facilitated spaces for teams or collectives to reflect, realign, and deepen shared practice. Co-reflection invites us to move beyond compliance into connection, making space for multiple truths, ethical inquiry, and collaborative care.
Available for Lived Experience teams or multidisciplinary settings.
Mutuality Maps - Combining my training as a Lived Experience (Peer) Supervisor, Lego Serious Play and much more, Mutuality mapping sessions are once of facilitated co-reflection sessions tailored to your organisation. They aim to build effective communication, grounded in psychosocial safety and neuroaffirming workspaces and create a way of working within the team that is adaptable, sustainable and values led.
Consultation
Support for organisations, leaders, and project teams seeking to meaningfully engage lived experience, embed peer work, or transform supervision culture.Grounded in values, systems-aware, and tailored to your context.
MC & Speaking
Engaging, grounded, and thought-provoking speaking for events, panels, conferences, and community gatherings.Whether holding space as an MC, offering a keynote, or sharing lived experience through storytelling, I bring heart, clarity, and critical insight.
Tailored Trainings & Workshops
Custom learning spaces designed with and for your team or community. Trainings are co-created to meet your goals while honouring lived experience and relational practice. Interactive, reflective, and never one-size-fits-all.
Emotional CPR - As a certified Lead Trainer, I offer public, in-house, or co-designed eCPR trainings with a team of peer educators. eCPR builds relational safety, presence, and deep listening in community, workplace, and service settings
Resources
Recognition of Lived Experience
