Understanding Psychosis

This Workshop explores the experience of psychosis through practical exercises, and enables participants to think about ways to support service users in identifying coping strategies, and finding meaning in their experience and exploring recovery journeys

Recovery

A more detailed look at the concept of recovery including practical exercises and theoretical perspectives. This workshop is aimed at mental health professionals and works on a number of levels including supporting individuals and groups of service users in identifying and supporting recovery journeys; and also planning and designing services which support recovery.

Employment and Social Inclusion

Enabling workers to explore methods of working which encourage service users to engage in the mainstream of society. This workshop will also enable workers to explore vocational pathways and to look at how mental health service users can be supported in actively contributing to society.

User focussed workshops

Themes would include:- " Living Well with mental Health problems “Getting the best from services" " recovery", "Getting back to work", " Using Your Experiences positively- How to use your experiences in training

Consultation

Learning from Psychosis has devised a model for consulting service users which is highly inclusive and enables users with very different levels of confidence and functioning to contribute to planning and design of services and participate in decision making.

TWO OTHER STORIES:

This 18-minute film follows Jan Holloway and Shriya Metha and explores how they have made sense of their experiences. Both women have encountered mental health services but this film looks beyond their diagnoses and observes their lives as a whole. As well as sharing coping strategies, both women explain how they have gained strength by facing some of their issues.

THE OTHER:

This 13-minute experimental film looks at the notion of 'The Other' and attempts to make sense of why we find it useful to project our own insecurities on to those who have been already labelled

mentally ill.

INVASION:

This experimental film uses Jan Holloway's evocative artwork and her own image and voice-over to give the viewer the opportunity to experience voice hearing and delusions. This film was screened at the 5th Disability Film Festival in London.

MANIA:

This 10-minute film describes what it feels like to be manic - from spiritual ideas to paranoid thoughts. Various images are shown -from war scenes to tower block demolitions and these are juxtaposed in unusual ways to follow the connections made during mania.

FOUR OTHER STORIES:

This is a 15-minute film documenting four artists of differing ages, cultures and backgrounds who have experienced or continue to experience mental health issues. It is an intimate account of

their stories.

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