1 Jan 2020 DRAFT

Amanda Waegeli - The Great Debate: To Re Awaken or Stay Asleep
To reawaken is the act of awaking from sleep. A revival of interest
or attention. A recognition, realization, or coming into
awareness of something, either personal or as a community. And
yet, with this revival and opportunity for growth comes discomfort;
the painful awareness of how messed up the world is and
that some relationships can not be sustained. So why rock the
boat? Perhaps we’re better off not making a fuss about reawakening. Perhaps it’s
better to accept things as they are and to try and find some peace in our slumber.
Haven’t we suffered enough? Facilitated by Amanda, two debating teams will explore
these issues and present their arguments to either reawaken or to stay asleep.
Amanda is a lived experience practioner, who has worked in the Mental Health sector
in various roles for over ten years. She uses her own lived experiences of mental
distress and personal recovery to influence change and improvement in mental
health practice. She has her own successful private business; Mental Health Recovery
Training and Consultancy.
Klaire McClorey and Kane Spooner - Power Threat Meaning Framework
Over a five-year period, a group of senior psychologists
from the UK, in collaboration with service
users and campaigners, have developed the
Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) as an
alternative model to traditional psychiatric diagnosis
for making sense of people's life challenges.
The Framework doesn't just apply to people who
have been engaged with mental health services - it applies to all of us! PTMF summarises
and integrates a great deal of evidence about the role of various kinds of
power in people’s lives, the kinds of threats that misuse of power pose to us and
the ways we have learnt to respond to those threats. This workshop will provide a
brief overview of the model and an exercise to help you get a taste for how it might
be applied in practice.
Klaire McClorey and Kane Spooner were Social Work students completing their final
placement with the HUMANE Clinic at the time of ReAwaken. During their placement
they attended a two-day PTMF workshop with co-authors of the model, Lucy Johnstone
and John Cromby.
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