Empathy, the ability to understand someone else’s perspective. Empathy can also be about different perspective and imagining what an experience might be like for someone, sometimes by relating it back to a similar experience of your own or connecting it back to the emotion that lies beneath. That can be uncomfortable at times, and it’s also a little where vulnerability comes in.

Broadly, a community is a group of people connected by a commonality of some kind, such as where they live or a shared identity. Community can also describe shared attitudes, beliefs or perspectives amongst a group of people which unites them.

Broadly speaking, an ally is someone who does not belong to a marginalised group themselves, but stands alongside and supports that community through what they say and do.

Someone with a lived/ living experience is someone who has direct experience of something. A shared/ or similar lived/ living experience means there is a cmmonality among experiences.