Category Archives: Healing

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 Hearing … 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

Can CBT help you not get eaten by lions today?

Posted on November 13, 2017 by

CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – has, by now, been through the full cycle of having been the latest fad in “mental health” services.  It starts with being trialled, then touted as the latest cure-all, then operationalized and stripped-down, manualized, … Continue reading →

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HV Workshop #2: Working With Voices – OSHAWA 25th-26th Jan 2018

Posted on September 15, 2017 by

This two-day workshop will give you a practical, “hands-on”  introduction to a handful approaches you can use singly or in combination when supporting a person who has asked you to walk alongside them as they begin their work exploring and making sense … Continue reading →

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Workshop #1 Accepting Voices in Ajax – Fri Nov 24th 2017

Posted on September 11, 2017 by

This workshop is open to all. Registration is required, available online NOW with limited number of places at early bird discount rates  until Oct 10. Limited places available.   Community Partners   Big thanks to Durham Mental Health Services and CMHA Durham Region … Continue reading →

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Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic

Posted on August 2, 2017 by

We will likely be told we have “lost touch with reality”, whatever that means, when the truth is it’s really not hard to understand: we are struggling to feel safe in the world. Continue reading →

Posted in Abuse, Adversity, bollocks, Emancipate yourself..., Healing, hearing voices, Ideas

Carnval des Voix comes to Oshawa, Ontario

Posted on July 14, 2017 by

Big Yo! to all the peeps and voices who came out for Carnival des Voix yesterday.
In Oshawa, Ontario. Continue reading →

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