A unique one-day event, led by Jacqui Dillon and Rai Waddingham, recently featured on BBC 2 Horizon's 'Why Did I Go Mad?'. The event explores those experiences often dismissed as symptoms of serious mental illness: voices, visions, paranoia, unusual beliefs and altered states, and re-frames them as understandable human responses to adversity.
Drawing from personal and professional experiences of madness, healing and recovery, combined with emerging innovative research findings, Jacqui and Rai present an emancipatory approach to understanding and working withdistressing experiences that prioritises respect, personal meaning, self-determination and liberation. Includes:
- Understanding ‘mad’ experiences
- Exploring factors that can contribute to and shape distress
- Alternatives to diagnosis - moving beyond the illness model
- Respectful ways of helping people in distress
- Strategies to survive and thrive
The event is for anyone
- interested in supporting someone else, whether as a friend, ally, family member, colleague, mental health professional, teacher, therapist, social worker, voluntary sector worker, manager or spiritual advisor
- understanding more about madness, creativity and the complex spectrum of human experience
- with lived experience of madness and distress.
To find out more about the day, and to book, please click here.
Location
Hackney House
27 Curtain Road
EC2A 3LT
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