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Changing the Face of
Mental Health
“Changing the Face of Mental Health”, held on May 16th at the Carriageworks, Leeds went extremely well. Out of almost 50% evaluation forms returned, all delegates rated the conference as a useful and informative event. On this page we make available the text from the talks so that this interesting and entertaining conference can be shared with more people.
We were proud to be able to present some of the most challenging views on mental health. Marius Romme (click here for Marius’ presentation or here for his talk (mp3, 41Mb) or his Q and A (mp3, 7Mb)) opened the conference with an engaging and profound analysis of why recovery from mental health problems may be made difficult by the traditional medical approach. He was followed by Jacqui Dillon who gave an inspiring address on how the personal experience of distress is also a political issue (click here for Jacqui’s presentation or here for her talk (mp3, 33Mb)). In the afternoon, Lucy Johnstone spoke powerfully about why diagnosis is not helpful and one alternative to damaging labels (click here for Lucy's presentation or here for her talk (mp3, 27Mb)). Our final keynote speaker was Rufus May who spoke about the need to support people who want to come off medication and a new website which does this (click here for Rufus’ presentation or here for his talk (mp3, 26Mb)).
We also had 10 very well received workshops, 9 of which were run by people from Leeds or Bradford and covering a wide range of topics. They were
• Rufus May on Dialogue with Voices
• Eamon Rooney and SHIP on Self Help and Empowerment
• Bill Penson and Bryony Walker fro LMU on Do professionals Need Qualifications
• Ravinder Samra on Person-Centred approaches to BME communities
• David Yeomans and Rhian Barnabas from CHOICE on improving choice
• Adam Jhugroo on working with Djinn possession
• Lesley Shilling on “Why does the support I receive depend upon how I make you feel?”
• Steve Crann on Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP)
• Julian Turner on how to make use of the learning from the conference and apply it back home or at work
• and the one person from further afield, Noah Pikes on The Whole Voice Work- and Playshop.
At the end of the conference the main speakers came back together for a final plenary question and answer session (click here to listen to this (mp3, 30Mb)).
We have had some very positive comments about the content and the organisation of the conference and we would like to thanks Sarah and Francesca at mosaic Events for their hard work in making it run smoothly. We would also like to thank delegates and speakers for making it such a memorable event. We hope it will be the first of many.
Julian Turner
Chief Executive
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