Jolie Goodman

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Jolie joined the Foundation of Nursing Studies in the Autumn of 2024 as one of the two Lived Experience Co-production Leads. Jolie has worked from a survivor perspective in mental health and social care for over two decades.

After a volcano went off in Jolie’s life and she ended up on an acute mixed psychiatric ward at the Maudsley Hospital. Her experiences on the ward   led to her becoming one of the founders of the highly successful Campaign for Women only Psychiatric Wards.

When Jolie left in-patient services, she was commissioned to paint 30 portraits of people she had encountered in hospital. The portraits included, five people from the Trust board, including the Chief Executive, five people involved in her care and five fellow service users. She painted two portraits, the mad and the sane sides of each person. The portraits were on the walls of the Maudsley Boardroom for over a decade.

Jolie is an experienced facilitator and trainer. She is passionate about how people working across health services can be supported to best manage their wellbeing.

Jolie’s roles have included Interim Chief Executive at Lambeth and Southwark Mind and Programmes Manager for Empowerment and Later Life for the Mental Health Foundation, where she managed projects including Standing Together, developing later life peer groups in housing schemes in London and Wales, Blue Prescribing, a nature based self-management programme and Creating Communities, a creative digital inclusion project.

Recently Jolie co-led the co-production of a national project TAPPI, co-producing the embedding of digital technology in later life housing.

Jolie also works freelance as an artist, making digital imagery and undertaking creative consultancy. She draws at conferences and captures the content of focus groups. Jolie’s artwork has been exhibited at the Royal Academy and is archived in the Wellcome Collection.