Category Archives: Ideas

Understanding Voices: Ontario Shores. Sat 24th Nov 2018

Posted on November 3, 2018 by

Hosted by Ontario Shores Family Council A Caregiver Event Understanding Voices : learning to listen to the pain of trauma and “psychosis” Presenter: Kevin Healey Kevin Healey hears voices and has done so for longer than he -or they -care … Continue reading →

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WMD on WMHD 2018

Posted on October 11, 2018 by

  Plenty to like in the WHO statement  for World Mental Health Day 10th  October 2018 , calling for the  need to focus on mental health of young persons; with an emphasis on recognising the stressful world not of their … Continue reading →

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Staircase of Oppression in “Mental Health”

Posted on October 5, 2018 by

Two-and-some years ago I stumbled across a video online, a TEDx talk I  found very useful, in which the presenter shared a diagram, a conceptual model of how oppression is constructed, in steps, as an escalation, first from categorizing persons, … Continue reading →

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Recovery as a Self-Directed Process of Healing and Transformation By: Patricia E. Deegan Ph.D.

Posted on October 1, 2018 by

The word “recovery” has now stuck onto every sentence uttered in mental health services just so we’ll know just how “recovery oriented” everything and everyone has now become. “Recovery oriented” is now an established branding but just what does that mean? … Continue reading →

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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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Hearing Voices Group Toronto | Fall 2018

Posted on August 17, 2018 by

Ninth year. new location! We’re moving downtown. The Where Inner City Family Health Team – ICFHT 4th Floor 69 Queen St East  The When Dates –  see poster Times-  6:00pm to 7:30pm Note: 1. Take the stairs or the the smellyvator … Continue reading →

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Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto – Fall 2018

Posted on August 16, 2018 by

Hearing Voices Cafe, Toronto Hearing Voices Cafe is open to all – we invite you to join us in a different kind of conversation about what it means to experience being human in this world. Many human experiences like hearing … Continue reading →

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“Consensus reality” is Major Major reality reality…

Posted on August 10, 2018 by

‘Experiences that fall outside of “consensus reality”…’ Tis an odd thing to say, eh? There is no such thing as “consesus reality”. For sure, when it comes to “mental health” there is no consensus -anywhere. Maybe that’s a good thing. … Continue reading →

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The conversational nature of reality – David Whyte

Posted on August 7, 2018 by

David Whyte on the conversational nature of reality at the frontier of that which we call “me” and that which we call  “not me”, where “self” and “the world” are entwined,  in constant enfoldment and emergence with each other… David … Continue reading →

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What if we could learn to listen, really listen, to feel and to hold each other’s pain…?

Posted on July 30, 2018 by

Hearing voices is in our society typically regarded as unusual and only experienced when a person is said to have a “mental illness” when it is in fact very common human experience, and one that is both infinitely varied and … Continue reading →

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