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ComplexitySalon comes to Oxford. A day for lived experience practitioners with Professor Les Back and Professor Chris Mowles at Rhodes House. Most organisations value quantities over qualities, claiming to be more 'evidence-based'. In institutions grounded in natural science, the appeal to evidence can silence the particular, the personal, and the experiential. This is why lived experience testimony and narrative can present powerful challenges to orthodox ways of managing and making policy. But bringing lived experience into an organisational setting is beset with difficulties. It is also a political act, and is likely to be resisted. So what are the strengths and limitations of lived experience? What possibilities are there for developing the approach as method? How might we learn from one another?