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Events in April 2018

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2 Unusual Beliefs Workshop featuring Peter Bullimore and Shaun Hunt Unusual Beliefs Workshop featuring Peter Bullimore and Shaun Hunt 9:30 am – 4:30 pm April 2, 2018 – April 3, 2018 Participants will look at how to support someone who has unusual beliefs or what often gets called 'paranoia.' It will focus on exploring a person's belief system to understand it from their perspective, and how to reduce any negative impact on quality of life without trying to take away what's meaningful or useful. Participants will also learn how the three stages of voice hearing apply differently with experiences of this nature, and will explore how to decode beliefs to build understanding. Unusual Beliefs Workshop featuring Peter Bullimore and Shaun Hunt Unusual Beliefs Workshop featuring Peter Bullimore and Shaun Hunt	3 Unusual Beliefs Workshop featuring Peter Bullimore and Shaun Hunt Unusual Beliefs Workshop featuring Peter Bullimore and Shaun Hunt 9:30 am – 4:30 pm April 2, 2018 – April 3, 2018 Participants will look at how to support someone who has unusual beliefs or what often gets called 'paranoia.' It will focus on exploring a person's belief system to understand it from their perspective, and how to reduce any negative impact on quality of life without trying to take away what's meaningful or useful. Participants will also learn how the three stages of voice hearing apply differently with experiences of this nature, and will explore how to decode beliefs to build understanding. Unusual Beliefs Workshop featuring Peter Bullimore and Shaun Hunt Unusual Beliefs Workshop featuring Peter Bullimore and Shaun Hunt	4 One-Day Hearing Voices Workshop With Peter Bullimore & Shaun Hunt One-Day Hearing Voices Workshop With Peter Bullimore & Shaun Hunt 9:30 am – 4:30 pm April 4, 2018 This workshop will include personal stories from voice hearers, research on how often people hear voices, and a variety of techniques and strategies to support people who are struggling. One-Day Hearing Voices Workshop With Peter Bullimore & Shaun Hunt One-Day Hearing Voices Workshop With Peter Bullimore & Shaun Hunt	5	6 Trauma Symposium: Power of Body, Mind, and Spirit to Heal Trauma Trauma Symposium: Power of Body, Mind, and Spirit to Heal Trauma 8:30 am – 3:00 pm April 6, 2018 This symposium is intended for anyone who has experienced trauma or is supporting someone who has experienced trauma. Sponsored by the Department of Mental Health. Trauma Symposium: Power of Body, Mind, and Spirit to Heal Trauma Trauma Symposium: Power of Body, Mind, and Spirit to Heal Trauma	7	8
9 Lown 2018 Conference — Breaking the Cycle of High Cost & Low Value: America's Next Health System Lown 2018 Conference — Breaking the Cycle of High Cost & Low Value: America's Next Health System April 9, 2018 – April 10, 2018 Are you ready to tackle the most pressing issues in health care: systemic overuse, inequality, clinician burnout, corruption, and the crisis in affordability? Then we'd like to see you in Washington, DC this April to help advance the bold ideas we need for America’s next health system. Join hundreds of clinicians, researchers, and policymakers—just like you—who are ready to lead the way. Lown 2018 Conference — Breaking the Cycle of High Cost & Low Value: America's Next Health System Lown 2018 Conference — Breaking the Cycle of High Cost & Low Value: America's Next Health System When the Conversation Turns to Suicide When the Conversation Turns to Suicide 9:30 am – 4:30 pm April 9, 2018 – April 10, 2018 This is a two-day training intended for providers, peer supporters, family, friends and anyone else who is interested in exploring the topic of suicide and how to better support people in the community who are struggling. Monday, April 9 and Tuesday, April 10, 9:30am to 4:30pm @ Holyoke Community College, Kittredge Center Holyoke, Massachusetts The ‘When Conversation Turns to Suicide’ training is free to Massachusetts residents. (There is a $100 fee for anyone coming from out-of-state, although this fee can be waived upon request and based on need.) When the Conversation Turns to Suicide When the Conversation Turns to Suicide	10 Lown 2018 Conference — Breaking the Cycle of High Cost & Low Value: America's Next Health System Lown 2018 Conference — Breaking the Cycle of High Cost & Low Value: America's Next Health System April 9, 2018 – April 10, 2018 Are you ready to tackle the most pressing issues in health care: systemic overuse, inequality, clinician burnout, corruption, and the crisis in affordability? Then we'd like to see you in Washington, DC this April to help advance the bold ideas we need for America’s next health system. Join hundreds of clinicians, researchers, and policymakers—just like you—who are ready to lead the way. Lown 2018 Conference — Breaking the Cycle of High Cost & Low Value: America's Next Health System Lown 2018 Conference — Breaking the Cycle of High Cost & Low Value: America's Next Health System When the Conversation Turns to Suicide When the Conversation Turns to Suicide 9:30 am – 4:30 pm April 9, 2018 – April 10, 2018 This is a two-day training intended for providers, peer supporters, family, friends and anyone else who is interested in exploring the topic of suicide and how to better support people in the community who are struggling. Monday, April 9 and Tuesday, April 10, 9:30am to 4:30pm @ Holyoke Community College, Kittredge Center Holyoke, Massachusetts The ‘When Conversation Turns to Suicide’ training is free to Massachusetts residents. (There is a $100 fee for anyone coming from out-of-state, although this fee can be waived upon request and based on need.) When the Conversation Turns to Suicide When the Conversation Turns to Suicide	11	12 Making Reform of the Mental Health Act Fit the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Making Reform of the Mental Health Act Fit the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 1:45 pm – 4:00 pm April 12, 2018 The National Survivor User Network, in partnership with Inclusion London, is organising a meeting to put together ideas for letters to the government and Professor Sir Simon Wessely and for a press release which advocate a human rights approach to current plans to reform the Mental Health Act. Making Reform of the Mental Health Act Fit the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Making Reform of the Mental Health Act Fit the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities	13	14	15 Movement Work at the Intersections of Neurodiversity, Mad Pride, and Disability Justice (Webinar) Movement Work at the Intersections of Neurodiversity, Mad Pride, and Disability Justice (Webinar) 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm April 15, 2018 Mad, neurodivergent, and disabled people exist on the margins of society and even spaces supposedly "for us," targeted by widespread ableism and sanism/mentalism. Autistic people spurred the development of a neurodiversity movement aiming to affirm the value of all neurodivergent people; psychiatric survivors spurred the development of mad pride movement to affirm the value of madness; and disabled people with many body/minded experiences have consistently been at the forefronts of movements around self-advocacy, independent living, peer supports, and disability rights. Disability Justice is a framework and set of practices that honor all bodyminds. Learn how Neurodiversity, Mad Pride, and Disability Justice intersect, what it means to divest from disavowal, and how to build cross-movement solidarity across fractures of medical oppression, trauma, and dis-identification as we work toward liberation. Movement Work at the Intersections of Neurodiversity, Mad Pride, and Disability Justice (Webinar) Movement Work at the Intersections of Neurodiversity, Mad Pride, and Disability Justice (Webinar)
16 Held Against My Will: Mental Illness, Consent, and the Law Held Against My Will: Mental Illness, Consent, and the Law 8:30 am – 1:30 pm April 16, 2018 Held Against My Will: Mental Illness, Consent, and the Law Held Against My Will: Mental Illness, Consent, and the Law Trauma Training with Thomas Brown Trauma Training with Thomas Brown 9:00 am – 5:00 pm April 16, 2018 This training explores a non-clinical definition of trauma created by a survivor of extreme traumatic experience, and looks at how and why trauma becomes locked within the body and the effects unresolved trauma has on the mind. Trauma Training with Thomas Brown Trauma Training with Thomas Brown Wellness Recovery Action Planning (4 Mondays) Wellness Recovery Action Planning (4 Mondays) 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm April 16, 2018 This four-day WRAP workshop is intended for anyone who would like to learn the basics of WRAP, and develop their own WRAP plan. Mondays, April 16, 23, 30 and May 7, 1pm to 5pm @ the RLC’s Bowen Center, 235 Chestnut Street, Springfield, Massachusetts This workshop is free. Space is limited and registration is required. Wellness Recovery Action Planning (4 Mondays) Wellness Recovery Action Planning (4 Mondays)	17 Grounding Trauma: Canada's Premier Trauma Conference Grounding Trauma: Canada's Premier Trauma Conference April 17, 2018 – April 18, 2018 Grounding Trauma: Canada's Premier Trauma Conference Grounding Trauma: Canada's Premier Trauma Conference Emotion Revolution Emotion Revolution 8:30 am April 17, 2018 April 17-19th 2018 – We dare say; the world’s most important experiential congress on Emotions! We invite to you to experience this unique congress and summit and learn from the most influential voices in the field, as they meet in search of common ground for Emotions in psychotherapy. What is the next big step? We invited you to an EMOTIONAL experience – not only talks! Attend workshops to experience how different approaches work with Emotions. Feel the fellowship of people engaged in developing psychotherapy, and let the performance of music and art touch you. Join us in Bergen, Norway April 17.-19. 2018! Click here for registration. Click here to submit a proposal. Emotion Revolution Emotion Revolution The 18th Annual Multiple Perspectives Conference on Access, Inclusion & Disability The 18th Annual Multiple Perspectives Conference on Access, Inclusion & Disability 8:30 am – 4:30 pm April 17, 2018 – April 18, 2018 Multiple Perspectives is an ongoing exploration of disability, a conversation including many voices that reflect perspectives gained through experience and research; theory and practice; art and science. This year's theme, "What I Know," is based on a quote from R.D. Lang: "If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know." Join a wide ranging conversation about disability, sharing what you know and learning what you do not. The 18th Annual Multiple Perspectives Conference on Access, Inclusion & Disability The 18th Annual Multiple Perspectives Conference on Access, Inclusion & Disability	18 Grounding Trauma: Canada's Premier Trauma Conference Grounding Trauma: Canada's Premier Trauma Conference April 17, 2018 – April 18, 2018 Grounding Trauma: Canada's Premier Trauma Conference Grounding Trauma: Canada's Premier Trauma Conference Emotion Revolution Emotion Revolution 8:30 am April 17, 2018 April 17-19th 2018 – We dare say; the world’s most important experiential congress on Emotions! We invite to you to experience this unique congress and summit and learn from the most influential voices in the field, as they meet in search of common ground for Emotions in psychotherapy. What is the next big step? We invited you to an EMOTIONAL experience – not only talks! Attend workshops to experience how different approaches work with Emotions. Feel the fellowship of people engaged in developing psychotherapy, and let the performance of music and art touch you. Join us in Bergen, Norway April 17.-19. 2018! Click here for registration. Click here to submit a proposal. Emotion Revolution Emotion Revolution The 18th Annual Multiple Perspectives Conference on Access, Inclusion & Disability The 18th Annual Multiple Perspectives Conference on Access, Inclusion & Disability 8:30 am – 4:30 pm April 17, 2018 – April 18, 2018 Multiple Perspectives is an ongoing exploration of disability, a conversation including many voices that reflect perspectives gained through experience and research; theory and practice; art and science. This year's theme, "What I Know," is based on a quote from R.D. Lang: "If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know." Join a wide ranging conversation about disability, sharing what you know and learning what you do not. The 18th Annual Multiple Perspectives Conference on Access, Inclusion & Disability The 18th Annual Multiple Perspectives Conference on Access, Inclusion & Disability Crip Feelings/Feeling Crip Crip Feelings/Feeling Crip 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm April 18, 2018 If there is no crying in disability studies then what becomes of those whose emotions are disabling or those whose disability is invalidated because it is considered just a feeling? This seminar explores the often overlooked imbrication between emotions and disability in queer and affect theory through readings of Ann Cvetkovich’s Depression and José Muñoz’s “A Jeté Out the Window.” Accounting for the ways excessive emotions, such as mania and depression, can be disabling allows for more bridges between crip and queer theory to be realized. Building on Robert McRuer’s work connecting queerness and disability and José Muñoz’s theorization of brown feelings, the affective position of people of color, Mr Forrest names the slipperiness between disability identity and emotions as crip feelings/feeling crip. The term uses “crip” to signify how the confluence of disability and emotions further troubles the able-disabled identity divide and expands McRuer’s “ability trouble” not only to allow understandings of emotions to be put into crisis but also to proliferate opportunities for political alliances. Crip Feelings/Feeling Crip Crip Feelings/Feeling Crip	19 Emotion Revolution Emotion Revolution 8:30 am April 17, 2018 April 17-19th 2018 – We dare say; the world’s most important experiential congress on Emotions! We invite to you to experience this unique congress and summit and learn from the most influential voices in the field, as they meet in search of common ground for Emotions in psychotherapy. What is the next big step? We invited you to an EMOTIONAL experience – not only talks! Attend workshops to experience how different approaches work with Emotions. Feel the fellowship of people engaged in developing psychotherapy, and let the performance of music and art touch you. Join us in Bergen, Norway April 17.-19. 2018! Click here for registration. Click here to submit a proposal. Emotion Revolution Emotion Revolution Disability, Media, and Human Rights: Policy, Practice, Performance Disability, Media, and Human Rights: Policy, Practice, Performance 9:30 am – 5:00 pm April 19, 2018 – April 20, 2018 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 8, affirms that the global disability community’s access to the media is a human right, as well as the way public attitudes towards people with disability are shaped. However, for people with disability, access to the media can be fraught with technological road-blocks, is punctuated by a lack of functional and reflexive representations, and perpetuates clichés about the creativity and consciousness of people with disability. This conference is an investigation of three nodes of intersection between disability and the media. Policy: Human rights, advocacy and access regarding media. Practice: Making media as a person with a disability. Making media for people with disabilities. Performance: Representations of disability in the media. Disability, Media, and Human Rights: Policy, Practice, Performance Disability, Media, and Human Rights: Policy, Practice, Performance	20 Disability, Media, and Human Rights: Policy, Practice, Performance Disability, Media, and Human Rights: Policy, Practice, Performance 9:30 am – 5:00 pm April 19, 2018 – April 20, 2018 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 8, affirms that the global disability community’s access to the media is a human right, as well as the way public attitudes towards people with disability are shaped. However, for people with disability, access to the media can be fraught with technological road-blocks, is punctuated by a lack of functional and reflexive representations, and perpetuates clichés about the creativity and consciousness of people with disability. This conference is an investigation of three nodes of intersection between disability and the media. Policy: Human rights, advocacy and access regarding media. Practice: Making media as a person with a disability. Making media for people with disabilities. Performance: Representations of disability in the media. Disability, Media, and Human Rights: Policy, Practice, Performance Disability, Media, and Human Rights: Policy, Practice, Performance	21	22
23 I am Psyched! For Social and Economic Justice for Women in the Service Sector I am Psyched! For Social and Economic Justice for Women in the Service Sector 9:30 am – 12:00 pm April 23, 2018 The APA Women’s Programs Office (WPO) and Office on Socioeconomic Status (OSES) are partnering to host a panel discussion on the topic of “Social and Economic Justice for Women in the Service Sector” focused on research and advocacy efforts in support of women who work for low-wages or on contingency in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp. I am Psyched! For Social and Economic Justice for Women in the Service Sector I am Psyched! For Social and Economic Justice for Women in the Service Sector	24	25	26 Tools and Strategies for Successful Deprescribing Tools and Strategies for Successful Deprescribing 8:00 am – 5:00 pm April 26, 2018 This program is designed for interprofessional providers involved in the prescribing and deprescribing process, including physicians, pharmacists, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. It aims to enhance provider knowledge and skill to facilitate successful deprescribing in practice. This workshop will utilize key pre-readings incorporated into continuing education credit as well as an equal division of both didactic and interactive sessions to engage participants. Tools and Strategies for Successful Deprescribing Tools and Strategies for Successful Deprescribing Introducing Values-Based Practice – and What It Can Do for You Introducing Values-Based Practice – and What It Can Do for You 11:00 am – 1:45 pm April 26, 2018 Bill Fullford ( David Crepaz-Keay, Ashok Handa and Peter Lyne are presenting three linked seminars introducing from the perspectives respectively of service users, practitioners and providers, a new approach to working with complex and conflicting values in health and social care called values-based practice. The seminars will be interactive and include opportunities for participants to suggest on-going work with the recently launched Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social Care at St Catherine’s College in Oxford. Introducing Values-Based Practice – and What It Can Do for You Introducing Values-Based Practice – and What It Can Do for You (Dis)Ability, Intersectionality & State Violence (Dis)Ability, Intersectionality & State Violence 12:00 pm – 9:30 pm April 26, 2018 JOIN THE CONVERSATION: The sites, practices, and mechanisms most commonly associated with state violence provide a powerful lens for analyzing intersectionality across identities marked by ability, race, ethnicity, gender, class, age and other groups who experience heightened levels of vulnerability. This one-day symposium features presentations and performances by artists, scholars, community advocates and representatives of social service organizations to foster dialog around concerns with forms of vulnerability to violence that are generated, under-addressed or ignored by state institutions. Presenters will address the ways in which the conditions of schooling, psychiatric and other healthcare, policing, and incarceration, raise heightened concerns for the human rights of people at the intersection of minoritized identities and disability. Keynote performance by Leroy Moore: “Slavery to Jim Crow to Ugly Laws to Surveillance” Featured Talks and Roundtable Discussion with: • Nirmala Erevelles Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Alabama • Anna Mollow Author and Fat Studies/Disability scholar • Khalid Alexander, Director, Pillars of the Community. (Dis)Ability, Intersectionality & State Violence (Dis)Ability, Intersectionality & State Violence	27 2018 Karuna Conference 2018 Karuna Conference April 27, 2018 – April 28, 2018 The Karuna Conference includes two full days of highly informative and dynamic speakers who will offer the opportunity for meaningful dialogue around the approaches used to address the shared human experience of suffering. The term “Karuna” is a Sanskrit word meaning compassionate action. As we engage in work to encourage personal transformation and growth, we hope that you will consider how you personally foster Karuna in connection with others. 2018 Karuna Conference 2018 Karuna Conference The Mental Health Act: A Human Rights Perspective The Mental Health Act: A Human Rights Perspective 10:00 am – 4:30 pm April 27, 2018 The English National Hearing Voices Network, presents ... The Mental Health Act: A Human Rights Perspective (followed by our AGM) In this one day event, we invite you to join us to explore the mental health act from a human rights perspective. We will be creating space for discussion, reflection and exploration of the impact the Mental Health Act has had on each of us (and those we care about), and the changes you would like to see happen in the forthcoming review. The Mental Health Act: A Human Rights Perspective The Mental Health Act: A Human Rights Perspective	28 2018 Karuna Conference 2018 Karuna Conference April 27, 2018 – April 28, 2018 The Karuna Conference includes two full days of highly informative and dynamic speakers who will offer the opportunity for meaningful dialogue around the approaches used to address the shared human experience of suffering. The term “Karuna” is a Sanskrit word meaning compassionate action. As we engage in work to encourage personal transformation and growth, we hope that you will consider how you personally foster Karuna in connection with others. 2018 Karuna Conference 2018 Karuna Conference	29 ResilienceCon 2018 ResilienceCon 2018 April 29, 2018 ResilienceCon is a new approach to conferences that offers a variety of traditional and innovative formats. ResilienceCon offers opportunities to interact with colleagues who are interested in strengths-based approaches to understanding, preventing, and responding to violence and other adversities. This conference will be of interest to: researchers, students, and providers from psychology, social work, education, sociology, criminology, public health, prevention, and related fields. ResilienceCon 2018 ResilienceCon 2018
30 ResilienceCon 2018 ResilienceCon 2018 April 29, 2018 ResilienceCon is a new approach to conferences that offers a variety of traditional and innovative formats. ResilienceCon offers opportunities to interact with colleagues who are interested in strengths-based approaches to understanding, preventing, and responding to violence and other adversities. This conference will be of interest to: researchers, students, and providers from psychology, social work, education, sociology, criminology, public health, prevention, and related fields. ResilienceCon 2018 ResilienceCon 2018

Events in April 2018

April 17-19th 2018 – We dare say; the world’s most important experiential congress on Emotions!

We invite to you to experience this unique congress and summit and learn from the most influential voices in the field, as they meet in search of common ground for Emotions in psychotherapy.

April 17-19th 2018 – We dare say; the world’s most important experiential congress on Emotions!

We invite to you to experience this unique congress and summit and learn from the most influential voices in the field, as they meet in search of common ground for Emotions in psychotherapy.

April 17-19th 2018 – We dare say; the world’s most important experiential congress on Emotions!

We invite to you to experience this unique congress and summit and learn from the most influential voices in the field, as they meet in search of common ground for Emotions in psychotherapy.

ResilienceCon is a new approach to conferences that offers a variety of traditional and innovative formats. ResilienceCon offers opportunities to interact with colleagues who are interested in strengths-based approaches to understanding, preventing, and responding to violence and other adversities.

This conference will be of interest to: researchers, students, and providers from psychology, social work, education, sociology, criminology, public health, prevention, and related fields.

ResilienceCon is a new approach to conferences that offers a variety of traditional and innovative formats. ResilienceCon offers opportunities to interact with colleagues who are interested in strengths-based approaches to understanding, preventing, and responding to violence and other adversities.

This conference will be of interest to: researchers, students, and providers from psychology, social work, education, sociology, criminology, public health, prevention, and related fields.

ResilienceCon is a new approach to conferences that offers a variety of traditional and innovative formats. ResilienceCon offers opportunities to interact with colleagues who are interested in strengths-based approaches to understanding, preventing, and responding to violence and other adversities.

This conference will be of interest to: researchers, students, and providers from psychology, social work, education, sociology, criminology, public health, prevention, and related fields.

April 17-19th 2018 – We dare say;
the world’s most important experiential congress on Emotions!

We invite to you to experience this unique congress and summit and learn from the most influential voices in the field,
as they meet in search of common ground for Emotions in psychotherapy.

April 17-19th 2018 – We dare say;
the world’s most important experiential congress on Emotions!

We invite to you to experience this unique congress and summit and learn from the most influential voices in the field,
as they meet in search of common ground for Emotions in psychotherapy.

April 17-19th 2018 – We dare say;
the world’s most important experiential congress on Emotions!

We invite to you to experience this unique congress and summit and learn from the most influential voices in the field,
as they meet in search of common ground for Emotions in psychotherapy.