Recovery

Wolf Wolfensberger - A Celebration

One year after the death of Dr Wolf Wolfensberger, the Values Education and Research Association (VERA) are inviting you to participate in a one-day event. Anyone who wishes to celebrate the contributions Wolf made to the debate about, and the understanding of, ways to help vulnerable people access the good things of life is welcome.

VERA want to hear from you about the impact of Wolf’s ideas on your life and/or work and encourage a wide range of different contributions from participants, and welcome your ideas and contributions covering any aspects of his life and work.

Complete a hearing voices questionnaire and you could win Amazon vouchers

The Clinical Psychology Doctoral research team at the University of Surrey (working on a project looking into the factors which contribute to recovery from psychosis) are seeking people who hear voices to help them in their research.

If you are based in the UK, have heard voices for at least 6 months (and have heard these in the last week) then the research team would be grateful if you could fill in
the online questionnaire:

http://www.fahs.surrey.ac.uk/survey/voices/

There are opportunities to win vouchers for Amazon for anyone who participates.

RecoveryNet meeting date change

The RecoveryNet meeting, originally due to take place in April, has been moved to 17th May 2011.

The meeting will still be at Community Options, 2a Fielding Lane, Bromley, Kent. BR2 9FL, starting at 10am.

Free SRN National Gathering webcast now showing

The Scottish Recovery Network's national conference will be live and interactive on the web for the first time on Thursday 10th February from 10am to 4.45pm GMT.

Remote viewers can watch and post questions live to all the speakers and submit thoughts to the round table discussions.

SRN Director, Simon Bradstreet, will open the discussion by taking a look at where SRN has come from and what the future holds, particularly in light of their recent independent evaluation.

Keynote speakers include international recovery educator, Rona McBrierty, sharing thoughts and insights from her own personal experience and journey of recovery. They'll also be joined by Professor Richard Warner of the University of Colorado and Colorado Recovery, who will deliver a fascinating talk on recovery, employment and empowerment.

The National Gathering will be chaired by Gregor Henderson, international consultant and advisor, and former Director of the National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing. Poet in Residence, Jo McFarlane, will contribute throughout the day with performances of her work, inspired by her own lived experience.

Visit website to sign up and view the webcast here

A new chance to attend a new recovery group

The Recovery Group, a forum partnered by Develop, Oxleas NHS, Bromley Mind, Community Options and the London Borough of Bromley, will once again be opening its doors to group members to discuss their experiences of mental health issues, to share their thoughts and feelings and explore strategies for recovery.

The group focuses on the hopeful process by which individuals can learn to live with their difficulties and experiences.  The group does not aim to cure or deny mental health problems.

Please visit the listing on our recovery services page to download the invitation form and flyer, which we encourage people to download and display:

http://www.developbromley.com/recovery/services#rec-group

Community Options invite you to Come Meet The Team

Develop Partner Community Options would like to meet with you to ask for your ideas on a new name for the service and to gather your thoughts on a way forward.

Sharing your views will enable us to tailor this service to meet your needs and the aspirations of our community.

Please drop in for tea and cakes and an informal chat on:

Tuesday 25th May (2-7pm)
at Community Options Head Office: 2a Fielding Lane, Bromley BR2 9FL

Thursday 27th May (1-5pm)
at Anchor House, Orpington: 5 Station Road, Orpington BR6 0RZ

Wednesday 2nd June (2-7pm)
at Anerley Town Hall: Anerley Road, London SE20 8BD

Thursday 10th June (2-7pm)
at Beckenham Mind Centre: 20b Hayne Road, Beckenham BR3 4HY

For further details please call 020 8313 9725
or email: suip@community-options.org.uk

Come Meet The Team flyer (PDF)

Judi Chamberlin (1945-2010)

It is with deep regret that we have to announce the passing of Judi Chamberlin, who died on the 16th of January, 2010 at the age of 65, after a long battle with illness.

Judi, a self-professed "psychiatric survivor", will be remembered as a champion of the rights and dignity of people with a mental illness.  She had in the recent past travelled from her home country of the United States, where she worked on projects for the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University, to Bromley to speak at Develop RecoveryNET conferences, where she was warmly received (you can see her at the 2004 conference at developMEDIA).

Even during her final year she bravely advocated the rights for the terminally-ill to die at home and not in a hospital, and her on-line blog judi-lifeasahospicepatient.blogspot.com recorded her daily battle with her illness.

We offer our deepest sympathies to Judi's daughter, three grandchildren, and all of her friends and colleagues at this difficult time.

Links:

Boston Globe obituary

National Public Radio obituary

Scottish Recovery Network relaunches website

Recovery Group Invitation

The aim of the Recovery Group is to provide a forum for group members to discuss their experiences of mental health issues, to share their thoughts and feelings and explore strategies for recovery.

The group focuses on the hopeful process by which individuals can recover from and learn to live with their difficulties and experiences. The group does not aim to cure or deny mental health problems.

A new group will be starting on June 25 2009.  If you are a care coordinator or a user of services, and you would like to know more about the group, then please download the flyer below, or contact Gina Benjamin on  020 8313 1017 .

Download Recovery Group Flyer

Scottish Recovery Network Update

The Scottish Recovery Network has released its update for April 2009.

To read this update, please click on the graphic below:

New Recovery Group starts in June

The Recovery Group, a forum for group members to discuss their experiences of mental health issues, and to share their thoughts and feelings and explore strategies for recovery, is commencing a new 20 week course in June 2009

Please visit the services page in our Recovery domain for more information.

You can download the invitation and RSVP form here.

Contact Gina Benjamin on 020 8313 1017 for more information.

Recovery Conference film now available in our library

Following the recent Experiencing Recovery conference held by Develop partners Community Options and Bromley Advocacy Project in Bromley, a short film of the day is now available in our Video Library, which also includes a link to a HD version for those of you with fast broadband!

Visit the Develop Video Library here

RecoveryNET Mapping Out

Develop's RecoveryNET are looking to map out all the work related to recovery that is taking place in and around Bromley.

Please fill in your information on the form which you can download below and return it to:
recoverynet@developbromley.com.

We may wish to publish the relevant information in the local stories section of the developbromley.com recovery pages in due course but will seek everyone's permission before doing so.

Download form as a Word Document