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Topic: Mental Health and Wellness: Self-Help Tools and Practices to Support Your Personal Recovery and Growth

Date:    Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Time:    5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time

This session will present some ideas, information, resources for consideration and discussion on mental health recovery with the intention of supporting our learning together, encouraging self- and community-empowerment, and affirming or discovering helpful thoughts and practices.

The co-learning objectives of this session will be:

• To present and discuss several self-help tools (including the Wellness Recovery Action Plan by Mary Ellen Copeland), activities, ideas, practices, and resources
• To invite participants to share their questions, comments and add information and suggestions from their own experience
• Encourage creative and effective self-help work, recovery activities, and shifts in thinking from an illness model to a strengths-based/self-responsibility and self-accountability model

Speakers/Presenters:

Debbie L. Whittle is a consultant, counselor, writer, artist, educator, motivational speaker, and change agent. She has transformed her own experience of suffering and has been a student of psychology, process therapy, holism, quantum mechanics, new thought and the healing process. She is passionate about helping to birth a new paradigm in mental health care by moving away from pathology toward wholeness-based perspectives. Debbie is Director of the SAMHSA-funded Technical Assistance Center of the National Empowerment Center, www.power2u.org.

Kerrie Fallon and Marina Colonas are from the Transformation Center (TC). The TC is run by and for people with lived experience of Mental Health and Dual Diagnosis Recovery needs. The TC is a new initiative launched by M-Power, Inc. which has been around since 1987. The focus of the work of the TC is Peer Support, Training, and Advocacy and Best Practices. The TC is also the certifying organization for Peer Specialists in Massachusetts. The Transformation Center also works closely with six Recovery Learning Communities (RLCs) across the state. RLCs offer training and support for peers working and volunteering to promote wellness and recovery in the local communities. For more information, visit www.transformation-center.org.

Stephen Kiosk is the Director of the SAMHSA-funded STAR (Support, Technical Assistance, and Resources) Center at NAMI. Steve has transformed his own past mental health challenges and diagnoses into strengths and new skill sets, has worked in ministry as a member of a religious order and as an ordained minister/priest, has supported others as a peer in the GLBTQI community as well as a mental health practitioner, and has been a life-long student of spiritual traditions, extraordinary human capacities, and attitudinal and holistic wellness practices. Steve has used many different tools, technologies, readings, activities and methods for his own innovative wellness path, and has also applied creative recovery approaches in his work as a peer/support advocate, trainer, licensed professional counselor, social services program director, and group facilitator. For more information on Steve’s background as well as the STAR Center, please visit www.consumerstar.org.

Books/Written Resources (descriptions from www.amazon.com)

• The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do. By John Oldham and Lois Morris
• Healing the Hardware of the Soul: Enhance Your Brain to Improve Your Work, Love, and Spiritual Life. By Daniel Amen
• E-Motion Picture Magic: A Movie Lover's Guide to Healing and Transformation.
  By Birgit Wolz
• Secrets of Shamanism: Tapping the Spirit Power Within You. By Jose and Lena Stevens
• The Owner's Manual for the Brain: Everyday Applications from Mind-Brain Research, 3rd Edition. By Pierce J. Howard
• The Symptom Path to Enlightenment: The New Dynamics of Self-Organization in Hypnotherapy : An Advanced Manual for Beginners. By Ernest Rossi
• Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal. By Belleruth Naparstek
• Spiritual Technologies. By Edward Stevens

Audio Resources/Tools

• Guided Imagery CDs by Belleruth Naparstek. Available at www.amazon.com & www.healthjourneys.com.
• Guided Imagery CDs by Tom Condon. Available at www.thechangeworks.com
• Guided Imagery CDs by Lloyd Glauberman. Available at www.mindperk.com
  
• Time management tools/online resources: www.taylorintime.com

For additional resources and tools, please see ouline.

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