Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
This will be a very special event, a day conference in Manchester to celebrate over thirty years of ASYLUM: International Magazine of Democratic Psychiatry.
It will be an all-day low-cost conference, with a lower rate for subscribers to Asylum Magazine which will cover refreshments on the day.
Asylum have a full programme for the Asylum conference, but still welcome posters for the day which will be in the main foyer for the conference, and we welcome stalls and literature, please contact [email protected]
The low registration charge for the conference will just cover the costs for the day. Asylum are asking you to come to Manchester to be with many other activists, survivors and their allies. This will be a chance to take stock and discuss what Asylum do next, and to share action about the many different kinds of networks you are involved in, to build those networks together.
Please let Asylum know about any dietary requirements. The cost of registration will cover refreshments and lunches. Asylum have to limit numbers attending. Please register sooner rather than later to secure a place at the conference.
Patients, carers and members of the public who are interested in sharing their real-world knowledge and unique experiences with health researchers. Participants will be helping to build the kind of public/professional collaboration that will lead to relevant research projects aimed at improving real health care settings.
For:
Patients and carers and members of the public – no ‘specialist’ knowledge needed!
Researchers who would value working collaboratively with patients and carers from an early stage to develop more relevant research questions and plans.
Format:
Friendly and informal and will provide time and space to explore how to develop positive and meaningful collaborations.
Learning points:
● Better insight and understanding about what different people can bring to improve research
● More confidence to take part in making shared decisions about research
● Access to further sources of information, training and support
● Inspiration to get involved in making equal partnerships in research!
Facilitators:
Charlie Davison a social scientist who specialises in building relationships between the expert knowledge of patients, carers and members of the public and the technical know-how of medical professionals and researchers.
Sarah Rae a servicer user researcher with a background in mental health. She has been involved in several research studies and has experience of co-leading and co-producing a large project which was founded at the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
Further information & booking a place:
Tracey Johns, Regional Public Involvement Lead, Research Design Service. [email protected]
Louise Forrest, Central Co-ordinator, Research Design Service [email protected]
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Critical suicidology (which includes emerging work in the anthropology of suicide) is developing theoretical and practical tools of engagement that go against the current “one size fits all” evidence-based trend in suicide prevention/intervention (that, ironically, is losing ground under the weight of its own evidence) towards collective and community-driven approaches.
As a counterpoint to current research on suicide, which is primarily located in quantitative and positivist studies, the collaboration we envisage will emphasize the importance of qualitative and ethnographic research on suicide, rethinking the very meaning of evidence vis-à-vis a good or bad life and a good or bad death.
Critical Suicidology works from the well-reasoned understanding that we need frameworks, strategies and concepts relevant for the complex, contemporary world in which are all now living, or in which some are struggling for liveability.
Critical Suicidology is not a unified approach that seeks to stand on the margins of suicide research; rather, it is site for diverse voices to come together around the fact that suicidology has become too narrowly focused on individual pathology and on the sometimes-exclusive use of positivist research methodologies, thereby actively excluding from consideration new, innovative and valuable approaches that do not fit well within these orthodoxies. A suicidology that operates with a singular form of evidence or truth loses the possibility of creativity and plurality in developing new approaches to help address and understand suicide.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Critical suicidology (which includes emerging work in the anthropology of suicide) is developing theoretical and practical tools of engagement that go against the current “one size fits all” evidence-based trend in suicide prevention/intervention (that, ironically, is losing ground under the weight of its own evidence) towards collective and community-driven approaches.
As a counterpoint to current research on suicide, which is primarily located in quantitative and positivist studies, the collaboration we envisage will emphasize the importance of qualitative and ethnographic research on suicide, rethinking the very meaning of evidence vis-à-vis a good or bad life and a good or bad death.
Critical Suicidology works from the well-reasoned understanding that we need frameworks, strategies and concepts relevant for the complex, contemporary world in which are all now living, or in which some are struggling for liveability.
Critical Suicidology is not a unified approach that seeks to stand on the margins of suicide research; rather, it is site for diverse voices to come together around the fact that suicidology has become too narrowly focused on individual pathology and on the sometimes-exclusive use of positivist research methodologies, thereby actively excluding from consideration new, innovative and valuable approaches that do not fit well within these orthodoxies. A suicidology that operates with a singular form of evidence or truth loses the possibility of creativity and plurality in developing new approaches to help address and understand suicide.
The Guild of Psychotherapists presents an exciting afternoon of drama and discussion on Saturday 1 July 2017. Called The State We Are In: Psychotherapy for Interesting Times, the afternoon begins with a vibrant professional reading of Josh Appignanesi's new play, Well Being, in which rival therapists go head to head over dinner, exposing each other's limitations - whatever the cost. The play tackles with comic aplomb the clash between cognitive behavioural and psychoanalytic therapies - and how these two approaches relate to the modern managerial state's desire to quantify and control.
Afterwards, a panel will respond to the play, bringing wide-ranging perspectives about the most urgent priorities for contemporary psychotherapy. The panel consists of Josh Appignanesi, filmmaker (The New Man, The Infidel) and playwright; Haya Oakley, psychoanalyst; Dr Judith Anderson, Jungian analytic psychotherapist and member of the Climate Psychology Alliance; and Dr Phil Mollon, psychoanalyst and energy psychotherapist.
To book tickets, contact [email protected] or 07833 746569, stating your name, contact details and the number of tickets required. Tickets are £20 or £15; prices are affordable to encourage broad participation and any additional donations are very welcome. As this is a fundraising event for the Guild's reduced fee psychotherapy clinic, underwritten by a few individuals, we would really appreciate you telling your friends and colleagues about this exciting and innovative event.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Co-production Week will celebrate the benefits of co-production, share good practice and highlight the contribution of people who use services and carers to developing better public services.
Co-production is about working in equal partnership with people using services, carers, families and citizens. Co-production offers the chance to transform social care and health provision to a model that that offers people real choice and control.
Make your Co-production Commitment
For Co-production Week 2017 we want organisations and individuals to make a Co-production Commitment.
The Commitment means promising to do at least one thing to support co-production. For organisations, it could be anything from doing a new co-production plan to sending some staff on a training course to find out about co-production. Individuals can look at how they can do more co-production in their work.
tell us about examples of good practice in co-production. We will include the best ones in our co-production guide’s practice examples section
tweet about co-production using the hashtag #coproweek.
If you are planning to hold an event, have an example to share or have any questions about National Co-production Week, please email us or tweet us on #coproweek.
SCIE's Co-production Week activities:
Second annual Co-production Festival on 5 July in London featuring the well-known comedian Francesca Martinez. The festival is for members of SCIE's Co-production Network but there are a very limited number of places for guests (contact us if you are interested).
Co-production training, a webinar, a Twitter event and many other activities.
SCIE has a long history of being at the forefront of co-production. To find out more about SCIE’s work around co-production see:
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Co-production Week will celebrate the benefits of co-production, share good practice and highlight the contribution of people who use services and carers to developing better public services.
Co-production is about working in equal partnership with people using services, carers, families and citizens. Co-production offers the chance to transform social care and health provision to a model that that offers people real choice and control.
Make your Co-production Commitment
For Co-production Week 2017 we want organisations and individuals to make a Co-production Commitment.
The Commitment means promising to do at least one thing to support co-production. For organisations, it could be anything from doing a new co-production plan to sending some staff on a training course to find out about co-production. Individuals can look at how they can do more co-production in their work.
tell us about examples of good practice in co-production. We will include the best ones in our co-production guide’s practice examples section
tweet about co-production using the hashtag #coproweek.
If you are planning to hold an event, have an example to share or have any questions about National Co-production Week, please email us or tweet us on #coproweek.
SCIE's Co-production Week activities:
Second annual Co-production Festival on 5 July in London featuring the well-known comedian Francesca Martinez. The festival is for members of SCIE's Co-production Network but there are a very limited number of places for guests (contact us if you are interested).
Co-production training, a webinar, a Twitter event and many other activities.
SCIE has a long history of being at the forefront of co-production. To find out more about SCIE’s work around co-production see:
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Co-production Week will celebrate the benefits of co-production, share good practice and highlight the contribution of people who use services and carers to developing better public services.
Co-production is about working in equal partnership with people using services, carers, families and citizens. Co-production offers the chance to transform social care and health provision to a model that that offers people real choice and control.
Make your Co-production Commitment
For Co-production Week 2017 we want organisations and individuals to make a Co-production Commitment.
The Commitment means promising to do at least one thing to support co-production. For organisations, it could be anything from doing a new co-production plan to sending some staff on a training course to find out about co-production. Individuals can look at how they can do more co-production in their work.
tell us about examples of good practice in co-production. We will include the best ones in our co-production guide’s practice examples section
tweet about co-production using the hashtag #coproweek.
If you are planning to hold an event, have an example to share or have any questions about National Co-production Week, please email us or tweet us on #coproweek.
SCIE's Co-production Week activities:
Second annual Co-production Festival on 5 July in London featuring the well-known comedian Francesca Martinez. The festival is for members of SCIE's Co-production Network but there are a very limited number of places for guests (contact us if you are interested).
Co-production training, a webinar, a Twitter event and many other activities.
SCIE has a long history of being at the forefront of co-production. To find out more about SCIE’s work around co-production see:
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Co-production Week will celebrate the benefits of co-production, share good practice and highlight the contribution of people who use services and carers to developing better public services.
Co-production is about working in equal partnership with people using services, carers, families and citizens. Co-production offers the chance to transform social care and health provision to a model that that offers people real choice and control.
Make your Co-production Commitment
For Co-production Week 2017 we want organisations and individuals to make a Co-production Commitment.
The Commitment means promising to do at least one thing to support co-production. For organisations, it could be anything from doing a new co-production plan to sending some staff on a training course to find out about co-production. Individuals can look at how they can do more co-production in their work.
tell us about examples of good practice in co-production. We will include the best ones in our co-production guide’s practice examples section
tweet about co-production using the hashtag #coproweek.
If you are planning to hold an event, have an example to share or have any questions about National Co-production Week, please email us or tweet us on #coproweek.
SCIE's Co-production Week activities:
Second annual Co-production Festival on 5 July in London featuring the well-known comedian Francesca Martinez. The festival is for members of SCIE's Co-production Network but there are a very limited number of places for guests (contact us if you are interested).
Co-production training, a webinar, a Twitter event and many other activities.
SCIE has a long history of being at the forefront of co-production. To find out more about SCIE’s work around co-production see:
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Co-production Week will celebrate the benefits of co-production, share good practice and highlight the contribution of people who use services and carers to developing better public services.
Co-production is about working in equal partnership with people using services, carers, families and citizens. Co-production offers the chance to transform social care and health provision to a model that that offers people real choice and control.
Make your Co-production Commitment
For Co-production Week 2017 we want organisations and individuals to make a Co-production Commitment.
The Commitment means promising to do at least one thing to support co-production. For organisations, it could be anything from doing a new co-production plan to sending some staff on a training course to find out about co-production. Individuals can look at how they can do more co-production in their work.
tell us about examples of good practice in co-production. We will include the best ones in our co-production guide’s practice examples section
tweet about co-production using the hashtag #coproweek.
If you are planning to hold an event, have an example to share or have any questions about National Co-production Week, please email us or tweet us on #coproweek.
SCIE's Co-production Week activities:
Second annual Co-production Festival on 5 July in London featuring the well-known comedian Francesca Martinez. The festival is for members of SCIE's Co-production Network but there are a very limited number of places for guests (contact us if you are interested).
Co-production training, a webinar, a Twitter event and many other activities.
SCIE has a long history of being at the forefront of co-production. To find out more about SCIE’s work around co-production see:
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day (W-BAD) seeks to raise global awareness about iatrogenic (doctor-induced) benzodiazepine dependence. These drugs affect different people in different ways, but there is a large group of people worldwide who suffer from debilitating physical dependence (from as-prescribed use) and withdrawal - alone, in the dark and without any help or recognition.
This problem has been allowed to spiral out of control for many decades due to inaction from regional health sectors and governing bodies. W-BAD seeks to bring this problem out of the dark to allow for help for those who so desperately need it, and to prevent this from happening to others, whilst reducing the risks and costs to greater society. W-BAD is held annually on July 11 worldwide in honour of Prof. Heather Ashton for all that she has contributed to the cause.
Use this day as an opportunity to raise awareness for the sake of not only the millions of sufferers and their families, but also for humanity and society as a whole.
There will be a hearing to propose Involuntary Outpatient Commitment (also known as Forced Outpatient Commitment or Assisted Outpatient Commitment/AOT). The hearing will take place as follows:
Bills like this require people assigned to Involuntary Outpatient Commitment orders to adhere to a number of orders against their will and while living out in the community. These may include taking psychiatric drugs, attending therapy and psychiatry appointments, attending particular day programs, submitting to drug testing, and so on.
For more on Involuntary Outpatient Commitment, click HERE.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
The Mental Patients Liberation Alliance is holding the 37th Annual Bastille Day demonstration and vigil to break the silence about psychiatric oppression snd celebrate the human spirit. We will hold vigil for 72 hours - the amount of tine anyone for any reason can be held in psychiatric lockup.
Vermont Mad Pride is a March and celebration organized by folks the world has labeled "mentally ill." We will march from Another Way, 125 Barre Street, Montpelier, VT to the State Capitol Steps, where there will be music, free T-shirts, and guest speaker Seth Farber, author of The Spiritual Gift of Madness: The Failure of Psychiatry and the Rise of the Mad Pride Movement.
Catered dinner follows at Another Way, 125 Barre Street, Montpelier.
A revolution is occurring in all sectors of the health-care industry.
Backed by decades of research, Eastern modalities such as meditation and yoga that were once considered fringe and alternative have grown in popularity and credibility and have now entered the mainstream. With greater attention paid to specific techniques, a window into the corresponding contemplative science and traditional psychology that underpin them has revealed a timeless wisdom as relevant to us today as ever before and nearly lost to humanity in our post-industrial age.
Current neuroscience and health research are confirming and embracing what perennial philosophies and contemplative traditions have always known about a human being’s incredible capacity for self-healing, compassion and creativity.
This conference aims to showcase a variety of contemplative therapies originating from India, China and Tibet, reveal the ancient science that supports them, the novel manner in which they have been integrated and clinically applied, share powerful stories of recovery and flourishing, offer a critique of our modern, industrialized paradigm and envision the new frontier of wellbeing.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
The Mental Patients Liberation Alliance is holding the 37th Annual Bastille Day demonstration and vigil to break the silence about psychiatric oppression snd celebrate the human spirit. We will hold vigil for 72 hours - the amount of tine anyone for any reason can be held in psychiatric lockup.
A revolution is occurring in all sectors of the health-care industry.
Backed by decades of research, Eastern modalities such as meditation and yoga that were once considered fringe and alternative have grown in popularity and credibility and have now entered the mainstream. With greater attention paid to specific techniques, a window into the corresponding contemplative science and traditional psychology that underpin them has revealed a timeless wisdom as relevant to us today as ever before and nearly lost to humanity in our post-industrial age.
Current neuroscience and health research are confirming and embracing what perennial philosophies and contemplative traditions have always known about a human being’s incredible capacity for self-healing, compassion and creativity.
This conference aims to showcase a variety of contemplative therapies originating from India, China and Tibet, reveal the ancient science that supports them, the novel manner in which they have been integrated and clinically applied, share powerful stories of recovery and flourishing, offer a critique of our modern, industrialized paradigm and envision the new frontier of wellbeing.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
The Mental Patients Liberation Alliance is holding the 37th Annual Bastille Day demonstration and vigil to break the silence about psychiatric oppression snd celebrate the human spirit. We will hold vigil for 72 hours - the amount of tine anyone for any reason can be held in psychiatric lockup.
A revolution is occurring in all sectors of the health-care industry.
Backed by decades of research, Eastern modalities such as meditation and yoga that were once considered fringe and alternative have grown in popularity and credibility and have now entered the mainstream. With greater attention paid to specific techniques, a window into the corresponding contemplative science and traditional psychology that underpin them has revealed a timeless wisdom as relevant to us today as ever before and nearly lost to humanity in our post-industrial age.
Current neuroscience and health research are confirming and embracing what perennial philosophies and contemplative traditions have always known about a human being’s incredible capacity for self-healing, compassion and creativity.
This conference aims to showcase a variety of contemplative therapies originating from India, China and Tibet, reveal the ancient science that supports them, the novel manner in which they have been integrated and clinically applied, share powerful stories of recovery and flourishing, offer a critique of our modern, industrialized paradigm and envision the new frontier of wellbeing.
We believe that Esalen is the perfect setting for the next R. D. Laing Symposium and Workshop. Esalen’s relationship with Laing is of historic importance due to Laing’s visits there from the mid-1960s toward the end of the 1980s. In 1968 Richard Price and Michael Murphy convened a summer-long series of symposia under the title, The Value of Psychotic Experience, that was designed to explore the meaning of sanity and madness, altered states of consciousness, and humane alternatives to conventional psychiatric treatment of those suffering from extreme states. Participants included Laing, Aldous Huxley, Gregory Bateson, Abraham Maslow, Fritz Perls, John Perry, Stan Grof, Julian Silverman, Alan Watts and many others who shared their respective experiences and thoughts about psychotic states and altered states of consciousness. It was on this occasion that Laing first shared his ground-breaking work at Kingsley Hall in London. Laing’s experiences at Kingsley Hall helped inspire Julian Silverman to initiate the Agnews Project in San Jose, out of which evolved Loren Mosher’s project at Soteria House that was explicitly modeled on Kingsley Hall. A few years later John Perry and Howard Levine initiated a similar project, Diabasis, in San Francisco. Esalen’s role in bringing all of these extraordinary thinkers together for the first time was instrumental in creating opportunities for alternative treatment modalities to flourish all over America for a period of some twenty years before the backlash against the counterculture sadly brought these experiments to an end.
The theme for our Laing Esalen Symposium Workshop was one of Laing’s favorite subjects: “What is Sanity? What is Madness?” We see this workshop as an opportunity to revisit the 1968 Esalen summer-long symposium in order to assess the current state of alternatives to psychiatric practices and to further explore amongst ourselves who is sane, if anyone, and who is crazy, if anyone, and what do these distinctions really mean outside of a medicalized psychodiagnostic context?
We want to explore and debate a series of relevant questions, including:
1) If we encounter someone who appears to be crazy and suffering beyond his or her ability to cope, how can we help that person become less crazed, but in a manner that doesn’t violate one’s fundamental right of possession of one’s body and mind?
2) Are each of us, perhaps, a bit crazy, and to the degree that we are, how have we managed to contain or channel our craziness into acceptable, perhaps productive, even creative endeavors?
3) How can we work together to create places of sanctuary, like Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, or Diabasis, for those in society who are no longer able to hold it together, and who need the time and the help to pull it together?
4) How might revisioning conventional notions about sanity and madness help our society to better grasp this ongoing tragedy and inspire more support, both private and public, to alleviate this problem?
Like the Wagner College symposium, our week-long Esalen Symposium Workshop will feature teachers who worked personally with Laing and who are currently involved with furthering his legacy. Invited speakers include some who presented at the Wagner College Symposium, such as Fritjof Capra, Andrew Pickering, Steven Gans, Peter Mezan, Edie Irwin, Douglas Kirsner, Michael Guy Thompson, and new speakers, including Nita Gage, Matthew Morrissey, Stephen Ticktin, Thomas Bartlett, Douglas Gill, William Stranger, Rita Gayford, Haya Oakley, Alma Menn, and others, all of whom worked personally with Laing or were profoundly influenced by his work. We will also feature a number of speakers who never met Laing but share similar interests and goals and are actively involved in the Alternative to Psychiatry movement that has been proliferating all over America in recent years, including Robert Whitaker, Will Hall, Michael Cornwall, Daniel Mackler, Yana Jacobs, and others. Our principal mission is to provide a forum where we are able to come together and share our views about what it means to be sane, and how to best facilitate its presence in our lives without encroaching on ourselves or each other.
Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, and Diabasis were famous for providing alternatives to medicating and incarcerating those who were diagnosed as schizophrenic or psychotic. Today, there is no facility in the United States that features such a simple, common sense alternative. We want to determine why this is so, despite the obvious need for such places. Some of us are actively exploring setting up such places on the East Coast and in the Bay Area, and we see this workshop as a gathering place for those who support this endeavor and wish to join forces with us. We hope to bring the fruit of Laing’s work forward at a time when many are looking for alternatives to treating mental illness by conventional, oftentimes cruel, methods.
Join us in this groundbreaking event and share your experiences with us.
We plan to accommodate fifty or more participants in this week-long event. Esalen will offer CEUs to all eligible participants.
Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. Starting June 12th, this free online course provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.
Over six weeks, you will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment, and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental health.
You will gain new perspectives on the “nature vs nurture” debate, and understand how we are affected by life experiences. You will also discuss new research, which promises to help us improve our own mental health and well-being.
The impact of biological and neurological traits on mental health and well-being
The impact social elements have on mental health and well-being
The extent to which life events can impact on how we act
The role that rumination plays in well being and mental health
Evidence-based suggestions as to how we might all protect and improve our mental health and well-being
The design of mental health services form a non-medical perspective
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.
The Mental Patients Liberation Alliance is holding the 37th Annual Bastille Day demonstration and vigil to break the silence about psychiatric oppression snd celebrate the human spirit. We will hold vigil for 72 hours - the amount of tine anyone for any reason can be held in psychiatric lockup.
We believe that Esalen is the perfect setting for the next R. D. Laing Symposium and Workshop. Esalen’s relationship with Laing is of historic importance due to Laing’s visits there from the mid-1960s toward the end of the 1980s. In 1968 Richard Price and Michael Murphy convened a summer-long series of symposia under the title, The Value of Psychotic Experience, that was designed to explore the meaning of sanity and madness, altered states of consciousness, and humane alternatives to conventional psychiatric treatment of those suffering from extreme states. Participants included Laing, Aldous Huxley, Gregory Bateson, Abraham Maslow, Fritz Perls, John Perry, Stan Grof, Julian Silverman, Alan Watts and many others who shared their respective experiences and thoughts about psychotic states and altered states of consciousness. It was on this occasion that Laing first shared his ground-breaking work at Kingsley Hall in London. Laing’s experiences at Kingsley Hall helped inspire Julian Silverman to initiate the Agnews Project in San Jose, out of which evolved Loren Mosher’s project at Soteria House that was explicitly modeled on Kingsley Hall. A few years later John Perry and Howard Levine initiated a similar project, Diabasis, in San Francisco. Esalen’s role in bringing all of these extraordinary thinkers together for the first time was instrumental in creating opportunities for alternative treatment modalities to flourish all over America for a period of some twenty years before the backlash against the counterculture sadly brought these experiments to an end.
The theme for our Laing Esalen Symposium Workshop was one of Laing’s favorite subjects: “What is Sanity? What is Madness?” We see this workshop as an opportunity to revisit the 1968 Esalen summer-long symposium in order to assess the current state of alternatives to psychiatric practices and to further explore amongst ourselves who is sane, if anyone, and who is crazy, if anyone, and what do these distinctions really mean outside of a medicalized psychodiagnostic context?
We want to explore and debate a series of relevant questions, including:
1) If we encounter someone who appears to be crazy and suffering beyond his or her ability to cope, how can we help that person become less crazed, but in a manner that doesn’t violate one’s fundamental right of possession of one’s body and mind?
2) Are each of us, perhaps, a bit crazy, and to the degree that we are, how have we managed to contain or channel our craziness into acceptable, perhaps productive, even creative endeavors?
3) How can we work together to create places of sanctuary, like Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, or Diabasis, for those in society who are no longer able to hold it together, and who need the time and the help to pull it together?
4) How might revisioning conventional notions about sanity and madness help our society to better grasp this ongoing tragedy and inspire more support, both private and public, to alleviate this problem?
Like the Wagner College symposium, our week-long Esalen Symposium Workshop will feature teachers who worked personally with Laing and who are currently involved with furthering his legacy. Invited speakers include some who presented at the Wagner College Symposium, such as Fritjof Capra, Andrew Pickering, Steven Gans, Peter Mezan, Edie Irwin, Douglas Kirsner, Michael Guy Thompson, and new speakers, including Nita Gage, Matthew Morrissey, Stephen Ticktin, Thomas Bartlett, Douglas Gill, William Stranger, Rita Gayford, Haya Oakley, Alma Menn, and others, all of whom worked personally with Laing or were profoundly influenced by his work. We will also feature a number of speakers who never met Laing but share similar interests and goals and are actively involved in the Alternative to Psychiatry movement that has been proliferating all over America in recent years, including Robert Whitaker, Will Hall, Michael Cornwall, Daniel Mackler, Yana Jacobs, and others. Our principal mission is to provide a forum where we are able to come together and share our views about what it means to be sane, and how to best facilitate its presence in our lives without encroaching on ourselves or each other.
Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, and Diabasis were famous for providing alternatives to medicating and incarcerating those who were diagnosed as schizophrenic or psychotic. Today, there is no facility in the United States that features such a simple, common sense alternative. We want to determine why this is so, despite the obvious need for such places. Some of us are actively exploring setting up such places on the East Coast and in the Bay Area, and we see this workshop as a gathering place for those who support this endeavor and wish to join forces with us. We hope to bring the fruit of Laing’s work forward at a time when many are looking for alternatives to treating mental illness by conventional, oftentimes cruel, methods.
Join us in this groundbreaking event and share your experiences with us.
We plan to accommodate fifty or more participants in this week-long event. Esalen will offer CEUs to all eligible participants.
We believe that Esalen is the perfect setting for the next R. D. Laing Symposium and Workshop. Esalen’s relationship with Laing is of historic importance due to Laing’s visits there from the mid-1960s toward the end of the 1980s. In 1968 Richard Price and Michael Murphy convened a summer-long series of symposia under the title, The Value of Psychotic Experience, that was designed to explore the meaning of sanity and madness, altered states of consciousness, and humane alternatives to conventional psychiatric treatment of those suffering from extreme states. Participants included Laing, Aldous Huxley, Gregory Bateson, Abraham Maslow, Fritz Perls, John Perry, Stan Grof, Julian Silverman, Alan Watts and many others who shared their respective experiences and thoughts about psychotic states and altered states of consciousness. It was on this occasion that Laing first shared his ground-breaking work at Kingsley Hall in London. Laing’s experiences at Kingsley Hall helped inspire Julian Silverman to initiate the Agnews Project in San Jose, out of which evolved Loren Mosher’s project at Soteria House that was explicitly modeled on Kingsley Hall. A few years later John Perry and Howard Levine initiated a similar project, Diabasis, in San Francisco. Esalen’s role in bringing all of these extraordinary thinkers together for the first time was instrumental in creating opportunities for alternative treatment modalities to flourish all over America for a period of some twenty years before the backlash against the counterculture sadly brought these experiments to an end.
The theme for our Laing Esalen Symposium Workshop was one of Laing’s favorite subjects: “What is Sanity? What is Madness?” We see this workshop as an opportunity to revisit the 1968 Esalen summer-long symposium in order to assess the current state of alternatives to psychiatric practices and to further explore amongst ourselves who is sane, if anyone, and who is crazy, if anyone, and what do these distinctions really mean outside of a medicalized psychodiagnostic context?
We want to explore and debate a series of relevant questions, including:
1) If we encounter someone who appears to be crazy and suffering beyond his or her ability to cope, how can we help that person become less crazed, but in a manner that doesn’t violate one’s fundamental right of possession of one’s body and mind?
2) Are each of us, perhaps, a bit crazy, and to the degree that we are, how have we managed to contain or channel our craziness into acceptable, perhaps productive, even creative endeavors?
3) How can we work together to create places of sanctuary, like Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, or Diabasis, for those in society who are no longer able to hold it together, and who need the time and the help to pull it together?
4) How might revisioning conventional notions about sanity and madness help our society to better grasp this ongoing tragedy and inspire more support, both private and public, to alleviate this problem?
Like the Wagner College symposium, our week-long Esalen Symposium Workshop will feature teachers who worked personally with Laing and who are currently involved with furthering his legacy. Invited speakers include some who presented at the Wagner College Symposium, such as Fritjof Capra, Andrew Pickering, Steven Gans, Peter Mezan, Edie Irwin, Douglas Kirsner, Michael Guy Thompson, and new speakers, including Nita Gage, Matthew Morrissey, Stephen Ticktin, Thomas Bartlett, Douglas Gill, William Stranger, Rita Gayford, Haya Oakley, Alma Menn, and others, all of whom worked personally with Laing or were profoundly influenced by his work. We will also feature a number of speakers who never met Laing but share similar interests and goals and are actively involved in the Alternative to Psychiatry movement that has been proliferating all over America in recent years, including Robert Whitaker, Will Hall, Michael Cornwall, Daniel Mackler, Yana Jacobs, and others. Our principal mission is to provide a forum where we are able to come together and share our views about what it means to be sane, and how to best facilitate its presence in our lives without encroaching on ourselves or each other.
Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, and Diabasis were famous for providing alternatives to medicating and incarcerating those who were diagnosed as schizophrenic or psychotic. Today, there is no facility in the United States that features such a simple, common sense alternative. We want to determine why this is so, despite the obvious need for such places. Some of us are actively exploring setting up such places on the East Coast and in the Bay Area, and we see this workshop as a gathering place for those who support this endeavor and wish to join forces with us. We hope to bring the fruit of Laing’s work forward at a time when many are looking for alternatives to treating mental illness by conventional, oftentimes cruel, methods.
Join us in this groundbreaking event and share your experiences with us.
We plan to accommodate fifty or more participants in this week-long event. Esalen will offer CEUs to all eligible participants.
We believe that Esalen is the perfect setting for the next R. D. Laing Symposium and Workshop. Esalen’s relationship with Laing is of historic importance due to Laing’s visits there from the mid-1960s toward the end of the 1980s. In 1968 Richard Price and Michael Murphy convened a summer-long series of symposia under the title, The Value of Psychotic Experience, that was designed to explore the meaning of sanity and madness, altered states of consciousness, and humane alternatives to conventional psychiatric treatment of those suffering from extreme states. Participants included Laing, Aldous Huxley, Gregory Bateson, Abraham Maslow, Fritz Perls, John Perry, Stan Grof, Julian Silverman, Alan Watts and many others who shared their respective experiences and thoughts about psychotic states and altered states of consciousness. It was on this occasion that Laing first shared his ground-breaking work at Kingsley Hall in London. Laing’s experiences at Kingsley Hall helped inspire Julian Silverman to initiate the Agnews Project in San Jose, out of which evolved Loren Mosher’s project at Soteria House that was explicitly modeled on Kingsley Hall. A few years later John Perry and Howard Levine initiated a similar project, Diabasis, in San Francisco. Esalen’s role in bringing all of these extraordinary thinkers together for the first time was instrumental in creating opportunities for alternative treatment modalities to flourish all over America for a period of some twenty years before the backlash against the counterculture sadly brought these experiments to an end.
The theme for our Laing Esalen Symposium Workshop was one of Laing’s favorite subjects: “What is Sanity? What is Madness?” We see this workshop as an opportunity to revisit the 1968 Esalen summer-long symposium in order to assess the current state of alternatives to psychiatric practices and to further explore amongst ourselves who is sane, if anyone, and who is crazy, if anyone, and what do these distinctions really mean outside of a medicalized psychodiagnostic context?
We want to explore and debate a series of relevant questions, including:
1) If we encounter someone who appears to be crazy and suffering beyond his or her ability to cope, how can we help that person become less crazed, but in a manner that doesn’t violate one’s fundamental right of possession of one’s body and mind?
2) Are each of us, perhaps, a bit crazy, and to the degree that we are, how have we managed to contain or channel our craziness into acceptable, perhaps productive, even creative endeavors?
3) How can we work together to create places of sanctuary, like Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, or Diabasis, for those in society who are no longer able to hold it together, and who need the time and the help to pull it together?
4) How might revisioning conventional notions about sanity and madness help our society to better grasp this ongoing tragedy and inspire more support, both private and public, to alleviate this problem?
Like the Wagner College symposium, our week-long Esalen Symposium Workshop will feature teachers who worked personally with Laing and who are currently involved with furthering his legacy. Invited speakers include some who presented at the Wagner College Symposium, such as Fritjof Capra, Andrew Pickering, Steven Gans, Peter Mezan, Edie Irwin, Douglas Kirsner, Michael Guy Thompson, and new speakers, including Nita Gage, Matthew Morrissey, Stephen Ticktin, Thomas Bartlett, Douglas Gill, William Stranger, Rita Gayford, Haya Oakley, Alma Menn, and others, all of whom worked personally with Laing or were profoundly influenced by his work. We will also feature a number of speakers who never met Laing but share similar interests and goals and are actively involved in the Alternative to Psychiatry movement that has been proliferating all over America in recent years, including Robert Whitaker, Will Hall, Michael Cornwall, Daniel Mackler, Yana Jacobs, and others. Our principal mission is to provide a forum where we are able to come together and share our views about what it means to be sane, and how to best facilitate its presence in our lives without encroaching on ourselves or each other.
Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, and Diabasis were famous for providing alternatives to medicating and incarcerating those who were diagnosed as schizophrenic or psychotic. Today, there is no facility in the United States that features such a simple, common sense alternative. We want to determine why this is so, despite the obvious need for such places. Some of us are actively exploring setting up such places on the East Coast and in the Bay Area, and we see this workshop as a gathering place for those who support this endeavor and wish to join forces with us. We hope to bring the fruit of Laing’s work forward at a time when many are looking for alternatives to treating mental illness by conventional, oftentimes cruel, methods.
Join us in this groundbreaking event and share your experiences with us.
We plan to accommodate fifty or more participants in this week-long event. Esalen will offer CEUs to all eligible participants.
We believe that Esalen is the perfect setting for the next R. D. Laing Symposium and Workshop. Esalen’s relationship with Laing is of historic importance due to Laing’s visits there from the mid-1960s toward the end of the 1980s. In 1968 Richard Price and Michael Murphy convened a summer-long series of symposia under the title, The Value of Psychotic Experience, that was designed to explore the meaning of sanity and madness, altered states of consciousness, and humane alternatives to conventional psychiatric treatment of those suffering from extreme states. Participants included Laing, Aldous Huxley, Gregory Bateson, Abraham Maslow, Fritz Perls, John Perry, Stan Grof, Julian Silverman, Alan Watts and many others who shared their respective experiences and thoughts about psychotic states and altered states of consciousness. It was on this occasion that Laing first shared his ground-breaking work at Kingsley Hall in London. Laing’s experiences at Kingsley Hall helped inspire Julian Silverman to initiate the Agnews Project in San Jose, out of which evolved Loren Mosher’s project at Soteria House that was explicitly modeled on Kingsley Hall. A few years later John Perry and Howard Levine initiated a similar project, Diabasis, in San Francisco. Esalen’s role in bringing all of these extraordinary thinkers together for the first time was instrumental in creating opportunities for alternative treatment modalities to flourish all over America for a period of some twenty years before the backlash against the counterculture sadly brought these experiments to an end.
The theme for our Laing Esalen Symposium Workshop was one of Laing’s favorite subjects: “What is Sanity? What is Madness?” We see this workshop as an opportunity to revisit the 1968 Esalen summer-long symposium in order to assess the current state of alternatives to psychiatric practices and to further explore amongst ourselves who is sane, if anyone, and who is crazy, if anyone, and what do these distinctions really mean outside of a medicalized psychodiagnostic context?
We want to explore and debate a series of relevant questions, including:
1) If we encounter someone who appears to be crazy and suffering beyond his or her ability to cope, how can we help that person become less crazed, but in a manner that doesn’t violate one’s fundamental right of possession of one’s body and mind?
2) Are each of us, perhaps, a bit crazy, and to the degree that we are, how have we managed to contain or channel our craziness into acceptable, perhaps productive, even creative endeavors?
3) How can we work together to create places of sanctuary, like Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, or Diabasis, for those in society who are no longer able to hold it together, and who need the time and the help to pull it together?
4) How might revisioning conventional notions about sanity and madness help our society to better grasp this ongoing tragedy and inspire more support, both private and public, to alleviate this problem?
Like the Wagner College symposium, our week-long Esalen Symposium Workshop will feature teachers who worked personally with Laing and who are currently involved with furthering his legacy. Invited speakers include some who presented at the Wagner College Symposium, such as Fritjof Capra, Andrew Pickering, Steven Gans, Peter Mezan, Edie Irwin, Douglas Kirsner, Michael Guy Thompson, and new speakers, including Nita Gage, Matthew Morrissey, Stephen Ticktin, Thomas Bartlett, Douglas Gill, William Stranger, Rita Gayford, Haya Oakley, Alma Menn, and others, all of whom worked personally with Laing or were profoundly influenced by his work. We will also feature a number of speakers who never met Laing but share similar interests and goals and are actively involved in the Alternative to Psychiatry movement that has been proliferating all over America in recent years, including Robert Whitaker, Will Hall, Michael Cornwall, Daniel Mackler, Yana Jacobs, and others. Our principal mission is to provide a forum where we are able to come together and share our views about what it means to be sane, and how to best facilitate its presence in our lives without encroaching on ourselves or each other.
Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, and Diabasis were famous for providing alternatives to medicating and incarcerating those who were diagnosed as schizophrenic or psychotic. Today, there is no facility in the United States that features such a simple, common sense alternative. We want to determine why this is so, despite the obvious need for such places. Some of us are actively exploring setting up such places on the East Coast and in the Bay Area, and we see this workshop as a gathering place for those who support this endeavor and wish to join forces with us. We hope to bring the fruit of Laing’s work forward at a time when many are looking for alternatives to treating mental illness by conventional, oftentimes cruel, methods.
Join us in this groundbreaking event and share your experiences with us.
We plan to accommodate fifty or more participants in this week-long event. Esalen will offer CEUs to all eligible participants.
We believe that Esalen is the perfect setting for the next R. D. Laing Symposium and Workshop. Esalen’s relationship with Laing is of historic importance due to Laing’s visits there from the mid-1960s toward the end of the 1980s. In 1968 Richard Price and Michael Murphy convened a summer-long series of symposia under the title, The Value of Psychotic Experience, that was designed to explore the meaning of sanity and madness, altered states of consciousness, and humane alternatives to conventional psychiatric treatment of those suffering from extreme states. Participants included Laing, Aldous Huxley, Gregory Bateson, Abraham Maslow, Fritz Perls, John Perry, Stan Grof, Julian Silverman, Alan Watts and many others who shared their respective experiences and thoughts about psychotic states and altered states of consciousness. It was on this occasion that Laing first shared his ground-breaking work at Kingsley Hall in London. Laing’s experiences at Kingsley Hall helped inspire Julian Silverman to initiate the Agnews Project in San Jose, out of which evolved Loren Mosher’s project at Soteria House that was explicitly modeled on Kingsley Hall. A few years later John Perry and Howard Levine initiated a similar project, Diabasis, in San Francisco. Esalen’s role in bringing all of these extraordinary thinkers together for the first time was instrumental in creating opportunities for alternative treatment modalities to flourish all over America for a period of some twenty years before the backlash against the counterculture sadly brought these experiments to an end.
The theme for our Laing Esalen Symposium Workshop was one of Laing’s favorite subjects: “What is Sanity? What is Madness?” We see this workshop as an opportunity to revisit the 1968 Esalen summer-long symposium in order to assess the current state of alternatives to psychiatric practices and to further explore amongst ourselves who is sane, if anyone, and who is crazy, if anyone, and what do these distinctions really mean outside of a medicalized psychodiagnostic context?
We want to explore and debate a series of relevant questions, including:
1) If we encounter someone who appears to be crazy and suffering beyond his or her ability to cope, how can we help that person become less crazed, but in a manner that doesn’t violate one’s fundamental right of possession of one’s body and mind?
2) Are each of us, perhaps, a bit crazy, and to the degree that we are, how have we managed to contain or channel our craziness into acceptable, perhaps productive, even creative endeavors?
3) How can we work together to create places of sanctuary, like Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, or Diabasis, for those in society who are no longer able to hold it together, and who need the time and the help to pull it together?
4) How might revisioning conventional notions about sanity and madness help our society to better grasp this ongoing tragedy and inspire more support, both private and public, to alleviate this problem?
Like the Wagner College symposium, our week-long Esalen Symposium Workshop will feature teachers who worked personally with Laing and who are currently involved with furthering his legacy. Invited speakers include some who presented at the Wagner College Symposium, such as Fritjof Capra, Andrew Pickering, Steven Gans, Peter Mezan, Edie Irwin, Douglas Kirsner, Michael Guy Thompson, and new speakers, including Nita Gage, Matthew Morrissey, Stephen Ticktin, Thomas Bartlett, Douglas Gill, William Stranger, Rita Gayford, Haya Oakley, Alma Menn, and others, all of whom worked personally with Laing or were profoundly influenced by his work. We will also feature a number of speakers who never met Laing but share similar interests and goals and are actively involved in the Alternative to Psychiatry movement that has been proliferating all over America in recent years, including Robert Whitaker, Will Hall, Michael Cornwall, Daniel Mackler, Yana Jacobs, and others. Our principal mission is to provide a forum where we are able to come together and share our views about what it means to be sane, and how to best facilitate its presence in our lives without encroaching on ourselves or each other.
Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, and Diabasis were famous for providing alternatives to medicating and incarcerating those who were diagnosed as schizophrenic or psychotic. Today, there is no facility in the United States that features such a simple, common sense alternative. We want to determine why this is so, despite the obvious need for such places. Some of us are actively exploring setting up such places on the East Coast and in the Bay Area, and we see this workshop as a gathering place for those who support this endeavor and wish to join forces with us. We hope to bring the fruit of Laing’s work forward at a time when many are looking for alternatives to treating mental illness by conventional, oftentimes cruel, methods.
Join us in this groundbreaking event and share your experiences with us.
We plan to accommodate fifty or more participants in this week-long event. Esalen will offer CEUs to all eligible participants.
Includes Wednesday Welcome Reception, lunches Thursday through Saturday and Saturday night dinner.
Every day will have presentations addressing topics relevant for counseling, education, self-growth & development and managing. For those interested in attending one day only, Thursday will feature a counselor track; Friday will feature a self-growth & development track and Saturday will feature a track for educators.
WGI-US and North Carolina State University’s Department of Social Work
Includes Wednesday Welcome Reception, lunches Thursday through Saturday and Saturday night dinner.
Every day will have presentations addressing topics relevant for counseling, education, self-growth & development and managing. For those interested in attending one day only, Thursday will feature a counselor track; Friday will feature a self-growth & development track and Saturday will feature a track for educators.
WGI-US and North Carolina State University’s Department of Social Work
Includes Wednesday Welcome Reception, lunches Thursday through Saturday and Saturday night dinner.
Every day will have presentations addressing topics relevant for counseling, education, self-growth & development and managing. For those interested in attending one day only, Thursday will feature a counselor track; Friday will feature a self-growth & development track and Saturday will feature a track for educators.
WGI-US and North Carolina State University’s Department of Social Work
This workshop offers a human way of understanding the kind of experiences that get galled “psychosis” and offers non diagnostic way of understanding such experiences and also offers a better understanding of how we can support those who live with them.
Do you work with people who hear voices and who struggle with that?
Do you have someone in your life who hears voices and struggles and feel limited in your ability to understand and support them?
Have you come to realize how the story that a person hearing voices must mean “illness” ? limits not only them but limits you and limits all of us?
Are you weary of the notion that we must fear ourselves and fear each other ?
Are you curious to learn more and are you asking “what else can I do?”
If so then this workshop might help you tilt your universe and emancipate yourself with new very simple and human ways to understand and begin to act.
Our aim is that you can feel more confident in your ability to offer yourself as a one person safe space to people who hear voices and struggle.
Includes Wednesday Welcome Reception, lunches Thursday through Saturday and Saturday night dinner.
Every day will have presentations addressing topics relevant for counseling, education, self-growth & development and managing. For those interested in attending one day only, Thursday will feature a counselor track; Friday will feature a self-growth & development track and Saturday will feature a track for educators.
WGI-US and North Carolina State University’s Department of Social Work
