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Liz Asser - Self directed recovery: User’s manual
Often when we find ourselves overcome by life and its circumstances
we can experience a disconnection from self
which manifests in periods of emotional distress, substance
abuse and destruction of relationships with others and ourselves.
This is often why we seek help from family, friends,
counsellors or other professionals. Realising this about ourselves can be powerful in
transforming how we self direct our recovery process. This session will explore developing
your own Wellness and Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) to determine your
goals and values and give thought to how these might be realized using what you
know has worked for you and discovering new ways of being your authentic self.
Liz Asser has been a teacher for over 25 years and currently teaches Mental Health
at TAFE in Queensland. Liz is passionate about advocacy for person centred support
services and the employment of peer support workers. Liz’s practice as a trainer,
counsellor and champion of self determination is informed by her own lived experience
and diagnosis.
Joanne Newman - Trauma, hearing voices & becoming a
compassionate agent of change
In this workshop, Joanne will explore her journey of becoming
an agent of change, sharing what she found helpful and what
has helped others in their journey towards healing. This included
the important role of self-compassion and compassionate
responses to the experience of human distress. Joanne is a
lived experience educator, activist and advocate. She has experience of trauma,
emotional distress and hearing voices and received the burden of a psychiatric diagnosis
at age 19. Healing for her is a personal, ongoing journey, of which hearing
voices is an integral part. Discovering the Hearing Voices Movement and being a
moderator with “Drop the Disorder!” have been influential in this journey.
Joanne Newman works part-time at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in the Bunbury
Mental Health Unit as a Lived Experience Educator for Social Work. Joanne has also
been a consultant at ECU - Joondalup within Occupational Therapy and was a prime
developer of an ECU film project. She has contributed to academic research & presented
at several conferences.
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