Category Archives: Healing

Workshop#1: Accepting Voices – Thu 29th Nov 2018

Posted on September 7, 2018 by

Pleased to announce, in community partnership with Inner City Family Health Team, this special opportunity to participate in our highly valued “liberating” , emancipatory”,  even “universe-tilting” Workshop #1: Accepting Voices. This workshop offers a beginning, an introduction to a non-diagnostic, non-medical,  human … Continue reading →

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Remembering is not required – Babette Rothschild

Posted on July 13, 2018 by

From Babette Rothschild… No3 in Series from the book:  8 Keys to safe trauma recovery. This below is from the series of short videos summarising the book.   #3 Remembering is Not Required “One of the holes we have in … Continue reading →

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Bodies with voices, and voices without bodies

Posted on July 5, 2018 by

It is not the case that some people with bodies are “voice hearers” and some are “not-voice hearers” . The categorization is false –  #fake, made up. Are you an “air breather” or a not-air breather? Its similar. Everyone can … Continue reading →

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you are not alone…

Posted on July 4, 2018 by

This post is, in part, a response to an excellent article in Asylum magazine in which Akiko Hart expresses some concerns about the nature of the discourse in “mental health”, and makes a call for less concern with being right … Continue reading →

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Madness, yet there is method in it… Vitor Pordeus

Posted on May 1, 2018 by

The world needs more Vitor Pordeus.  

Posted in Difference and Diversity, Emancipate yourself..., Healing, Ideas, mad

Hearing Voices Cafe – Calgary

Posted on April 12, 2018 by

Hearing Voices Cafe comes to Calgary ! Friday 4th May 2018 6pm Hosted by Psych Survivor YYC At: Weeds Café 1903 20 Ave NW     Big thanks to Psych Survivor YYC working with us and also opportunity to attend … Continue reading →

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An uncommon story – Asante Haughton

Posted on February 22, 2018 by

Asante Haughton  pretty damn dope at TEDx Youth@Toronto.      Asante Haughton   Pretty damn dope but you know my story, it’s a common story for a lot of kids around the world but the ending of my story is … Continue reading →

Posted in Healing, Ideas, my story, Spoken Word

Grounding Trauma Conference 2018 : Challenging Paradigms. 17th, 18th April 2018

Posted on January 18, 2018 by

Very pleased to have been invited to co-present with Jennifer Wynne a the CAST Grounding Trauma Conference 2018. Neither trauma nor difficult experiences that called names like “psychosis” are as mysterious or hard to understand as many experts would have … Continue reading →

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Wounded Healers: How peer support workers help patients in crisis

Posted on December 18, 2017 by

Peer Workers do not have magic faerie dust but this podcast sheds light on what’s possible and some of what it takes to integrate peer support into clinical settings, even a busy “Emerge” or “ER”…
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What we hold inside…

Posted on November 16, 2017 by

“Trauma is not what happens to us but what we hold inside in absence of empathetic witnesses”. Peter Levine Continue reading →

Posted in Abuse, Crazy World, Healing, Ideas, Trauma