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84 days to go....book your ticket to
Join us in South Wales on
7-10 Oct
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Hello Margaret
Our 15th experiential learning retreat is Making New Maps - Mon 7 to Thurs 10 October 2024 at Coed Hills in South Wales - a beautiful eco arts venue in 180 acres of unspoilt ancient Woodland, with elevated views reaching as far as the Jurassic coastline of Wales, yet just a stones throw from Cardiff.
BOOK to join leading mental health facilitators, and a community of people interested in improving the way we talk about and treat "mental illness". The Compassionate Mental Health Gatherings are unique events that bring together people with lived experience of mental health issues, family and friend supporters, mental health professionals, academics, charity and community workers and policy influencers. These experiential learning retreats accelerate and incubate change by creating conditions where people can experience a therapeutic environment, and connect on a personal level.
Our aim is to bridge the gap between aspirational mental health policy and the current reality on the ground, by modelling some of the values and approaches we'd like to see more of in a future-fit mental health service. One of those pillars is the importance of "nourishment", and we're delighted to welcome back chef Kemi Nevins and her son Patrick as our chief nourishers (pictured above).
Join us for fresh air, fresh food and ideas; and leave with renewed confidence, optimism and inner resources.
Read this Mad in America BLOG from Robyn Thomas (our resident ethnographer) on her impression of the CMH Gathering, and why it matters...
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Making New Maps .....
Our speakers and facilitators are passionate about changing the script around mental health, challenging stigma and raising expectations. Including:
- Hollie Berrigan Consultant Lived Experience Practitioner and Integrative Counsellor, Peer Support Worker and accredited Hearing Voices Network Facilitator
- Dawn Edge - Academic Lead for ‘Race’, Religion and Belief, and Senior Lecturer in the Division of Psychology & Mental Health for the University of Manchester. Dawn is actively engaged in working with communities to improve health and well being – among those who are marginalised, socially excluded, and experience inferior access to health and care
- Emmy van Deurzen - Existential philosopher, Author and counselling psychologist, Emmy is President of the worldwide Existential Movement and has experience of working in many different psychiatric institutions and radical therapeutic communities
- Arnaud Vallet - psychiatric nurse, art therapist and lead clinician for the Adamant, a floating psychiatric day centre on the banks of the River Seine in Paris
- Rex Haigh - consultant psychiatrist, medical psychotherapist and group analyst. He has been a passionate believer in the power of therapeutic communities, relational and Green care approaches
- Anando Chatterji - Group psychotherapist, philosopher and social architect - designer of therapeutic environments
- Abdullah Mia - Consultant Clinical Psychologist and the Clinical Lead at a forensic medium secure NHS setting in Birmingham. He draws on compassionate and relational approaches to enhance strengths and challenge oppressive structures
Find out more and Book NOW!
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