Tools for Supporting Recovery - 2 Day Workshop
People often criticise the recovery approach for being too theoretical and lacking practical application. While it is true that the recovery approach is driven by a set of attitudes and beliefs, there are plenty of tools practitioners can offer people using services. These tools need to be informed by our knowledge of peoples experience of distress and recovery. At the most fundamental level practitioners can invite people to reframe their life stories which may have been interrupted by trauma, stigma, loss and service failures – using the template of the hero’s journey. In day two other recovery tools will be presented, which are designed to make it easier for people to manage their minds, change aspects of their lifestyle, enhance their relationships, maximise their income, seek work and housing, get the most out of services and deal with life crisis. These tools have been developed in a peer support and education context but they can be introduced to people by any practitioners. The workshop will also give practitioners tips on how to offer the tools to people in an empowering way. The workshop will use interactive methods to illuminate the lived experience of distress and recovery and to demonstrate how the recovery tools can be used.
Dates and Cost
13 - 14 February (2 days)
Members: $395
Non-members: $495
Learning Outcomes
At completion participants will have:
- An understanding of the attitudes and experiences that underpin recovery
- A set of tools they can use with the people they work with
- An understanding of how to introduce the tools in an empowering way
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