Building an emancipatory mental health approach

Fri Jul 15 2022 at 09:00 am to 04:30 pm

The Yard Theatre | Manchester

CHARM
Publisher/HostCHARM
Building an emancipatory mental health approach
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We are holding a one day workshop to explore different ways to meet the needs of those people described as having serious mental illness.
About this Event

Aims

We are holding a one day workshop to explore different ways to meet the needs of those people described as having serious mental illness. The workshop is aimed at experts by experience including family members and experts by profession.

Our aim is to initiate discussion about the kind of sustainable, holistic and community-led practices that could be developed in Manchester to address trauma and social determinants, focussing on racism.

As there has been limited investment in community and crisis care in Central Manchester over the last 10 years, we see this as an opportunity to pilot transformative practice here. This workshop can be used to steer the implementation of the NHS Community Mental Health Transformation Plan.

Background and starting principles

The Community Mental Health Transformation programme is part of the National NHS improvement plan that aims to see ‘users and carers’ as equal participants in the design and delivery of care. The new model is intended to be inclusive and aims to proactively ensure equality of access, experience, and outcomes for individuals from different backgrounds. It emphasises the creation of an holistic community-based offer that includes access to needs led, personalised and trauma focused care. It also aims to meet people’s social needs which often significantly impact their mental health difficulties.

Because of perceived and felt unequal relations between people with lived experience of mental health difficulties, family members and professionals we are creating an open space where we can talk honestly with each other. This approach is based on Trialogical principles where meetings are a medium for enhancing wellbeing, providing a transformative empowering process and engaging citizens through sustained collective dialogue.

Structure

The workshop will have invited speakers as well as contributions from workers/service users and family members from Manchester.

Programme

9.30 Introduction

Anandi Ramamurthy, CHARM

9.45 – 11.15 Session One: working relationally (1 hour 15 mins)

How have relational approaches supported the empowerment and recovery of those who have long term contact with mental health crisis services? How do we move from assessment and monitoring to knowing the person and developing trusting partnerships and ‘therapeutic alliances’.

Recovery communities/houses – Paul Baker

How do we create a democratic and reflective space based on the principle of ‘nothing about us without us’? In the Recovery House in Trieste, the focus was on creating a space of self-determination, shared responsibility and ownership including family members and not on clinical diagnosis or Medic*tion. Paul worked for 5 years with the Trieste Mental Health Department to establish and support the Recovery Learning Community and Recovery House.

Intentional Peer Support and hearing voices - Jess Pons

Thinking about and inviting transformative relationships. How to use relationships to see things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns. How the Hearing Voices Approach utilises respectful and empowering spaces to enable people to make sense of their experiences. Jess worked at Camden Mind coordinating and delivering hearing voices training across London. She is now based in Manchester.

Chair: TBC

11.15 -11.30 Break

11.30 - 12.45 Session Two: working with racialised trauma (1 hour 15 mins)

How do we address racialised trauma? How can the creation of recovery/discovery spaces and shared lives in community be a means to create an anti-racist service? How can psychological approaches embed an anti-racist framework?

USEMI Racial Trauma Clinic: Dorothee Bonnigal-Katz and Earl Pennycooke (confirmed)

USEMI explores anti-racist and culturally informed psychological support, including psychosis. With questions of voice and visibility as its central concerns, USEMI strives to offer culturally sensitive and anti-racist support to ethnically diverse communities. Earl is a highly experienced therapist who is dedicated to the mental wellbeing of Men of Colour working with USEMI. Dorothee is the founder and Clinical Director of the Psychosis Therapy Project.

Chair: Gail Coleman-Oluwabusola 

12.45 -1.45 Lunch

1.45 – 3.00 Session 3: Working with social networks: Open dialogue (1 hour 15 mins)

Open Dialogue was developed in Western Lapland and is being adopted by NHS trusts as a more consistent and co-created understanding of mental distress than current service models. The programme works with families and social networks to strengthen their recovery and maintain wellbeing with very impressive results. How can this approach be implemented in the community transformation programme in Manchester?

Russel Razzaque, Psychiatrist, East London CMH

Russell is currently leading the pioneering study on Open Dialogue in the NHS in England. It seeks to transform the model of health care provided to patients with major mental health problems.

Rai Waddingham, Open Dialogue Trainer and Practitioner

Rai is a leading figure in the ‘survivor’ movement, blending the knowledge gained from lived experience with that of practice.

Chair: Jess Pons

3.00- 3.15 Coffee

3.15 – 4.30 pm Open forum

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Yard Theatre, Hulme, Manchester, United Kingdom

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