The Collab theme for 2025 is Marvel-ous MH Care. Ordinary People doing Extraordinary Things.
In 2025, The Collab continues its journey beyond a quarter-century of nurturing and supporting mental health nursing. This year, we turn our focus to innovation, resilience, and collaboration in building the next chapter of care. Together, we will explore new horizons, celebrate shared successes, and shape a future centred on compassionate practice.
This year we celebrate the everyday heroes of mental health care —ordinary individuals making extraordinary impact through compassion, advocacy, and lived experience. Across our dedicated mental health nurses, consumer perspective workers and lived experience community, we gather remarkable individuals who overcome challenges and open new possibilities. Like superheroes in disguise, they bring hope, healing, and innovation to the forefront of mental health care.
The Collab 2025 will spotlight many unsung champions and recognize the collective strength of contributors to build a stronger, more inclusive future for mental health care. We invite Mental Health Nurses, lived experience consumers and members of the mental health community to join us for two days of uplifting keynotes, presentations, collaboration, and networking.
CONSUMER DAY IS BACK!
MONDAY 18 august
Our discipline, our knowledge, our strength
After the incredible success of our 2024 Consumer Day in Melbourne, where over 50 passionate members of the Consumer Lived Experience Workforce came together to celebrate our achievements, challenges, and impact, we're excited to announce the 2025 event with a fresh new name:
The Collab 2025 Illustration represents the transformative and
resilient spirit of mental health care. It celebrates the strength found
in ordinary individuals – mental health
professionals, caregivers, advocates, and
those on the journey to recovery – who
rise above challenges to ignite hope and
renewal in themselves and others. The phoenix, a mythical creature
known for its ability to rise from its own
ashes, symbolises renewal, resilience,
and triumph over adversity. In
the context of mental health care, it
represents the transformative power
of empathy, support, and professional
care that enables individuals to rebuild
their lives, even after experiencing profound struggles.
