ReAwaken ebook 1st Ed
A ebook that documents and celebrates ReAwaken Australia - compassion, connection and meaningful action of a wonderful community who came together to shift paradigms in mental health, trauma and addiction
A ebook that documents and celebrates ReAwaken Australia - compassion, connection and meaningful action of a wonderful community who came together to shift paradigms in mental health, trauma and addiction
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Ellie Hodges - Lived Experience: what does it even mean?<br />
So often the path to liberation is divided as different needs take<br />
priority. This talk will explore what is meant by “lived experience”,<br />
peer work and the plethora of clinical and professional labels that<br />
lead to the division of people in the mental health, trauma and<br />
addiction environments. Participants will be encouraged to think<br />
about how we can work towards a shared goal of compassion and<br />
connection while rejecting deficit based approaches. The<br />
workshop will focus on our common values and shared beliefs,<br />
and how we can all be heard in journeys of recovery and hope.<br />
Ellie has worked for twenty years in the community and mental health sectors as a<br />
community development lead, therapeutic practitioner, manager, educator, advisor,<br />
strategy/policy worker and consultant. For the past three years she has been an active<br />
lived experience representative, leader and speaker at state and national level. Ellie<br />
founded the Lived Experience Leadership & Advocacy Network (LELAN).<br />
Matt Ball and Stephanie Mitchell - Do it anyway<br />
The discussion since the beginning of the consumer movement has been about how we<br />
shift systems and institutions towards personal recovery. But has the time come to ask –<br />
should we still invite the institutions of psychiatry and<br />
politics to be part of the conversation of human<br />
distress, mental health, trauma and addiction?<br />
Taking action is the process by which we can feel and<br />
experience the spirit of Cesar Chevez when he stated:<br />
“Once social change begins it cannot be reversed, you<br />
cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.<br />
You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You<br />
cannot oppress the people who are not afraid any more. We have seen the future and the<br />
future is ours.”<br />
Do It Anyway will explore having an idea and enacting it towards social change. From<br />
Healing Voices to Re-Awaken Australia – making change happen is a priority.<br />
Matt Ball and Stephanie Mitchell are Co-Directors of HUMANE Clinic. There is more<br />
information about Matt and Stephanie in the Keynote Presentation section.<br />
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