A Recovery Approach to Risk - 2 Day Workshop
This workshop will explore the origins of risk thinking in contemporary society and in mental health services as well as the origins of recovery. The recovery approach amplifies the voice and personal meaning of people with lived experience but this has yet to penetrate the risk thinking in mental health services. Recovery requires us to take a much broader view of risk – one that is concerned with the subjective experience and life chances of people with lived experience and those close to them. The workshop will use interactive exercises where people will look at risk through different lenses, consider risk situations in their own work, and see role plays of these situations enacted in a traditional and a recovery oriented way.
Dates and Cost
16 - 17 February 2012 (2 days)
Members: $395
Non-members: $495
Learning Outcomes
At completion participants will have:
- Better understanding of the origins of risk and recovery
- A broader view of risk than it is currently portrayed in many services
- A framework for thinking about and working with risk from a recovery perspective
Facilitator - Mary O'Hagan
Mary O’Hagan used mental health services in New Zealand for eight years as a young woman. Ever since, she has worked to make a difference to the way society and services respond to people with major mental distress.
Mary was:
- An initiator of the service user movement in New Zealand
- The first Chair of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
- An advisor to the United Nations and World Health Organisation
- A Mental Health Commissioner for New Zealand
Mary is:
- An international speaker, consultant and writer
- An international thought leader on service user perspectives
- Used for her unique expertise in recovery, wellbeing and discrimination
- Working in The Netherlands, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Co Facillitator Shane Jakupec
Shane has been working in the mental health sector since 2000 in service, contract and volunteer recruitment and training, as well as delivering accredited mental health training with MHCC.
Shane holds a BA Theology, Ad Dip Community Management and a Cert IV in Training and Assessment.