Compassionate Mental Health

Compassionate Mental Health is a conference dedicated to transformation in the way we live and work with mental health crises and distress and therapeutic approaches that move beyond a purely biomedical model in terms of sustainable recovery from a mental health crisis.

Topics

• The importance of meaning in mental distress and psychosis
• How to exercise our inner strength to resource ourselves and others
• Enabling the shift towards a more democratic approach that focuses on the whole person and building resilience
• Breakdown as opportunity for breakthrough and growth
• How we form authentic relationships, learn to listen deeply, and feel safe to share our difficulties
• Building equity and understanding between everyone involved in mental health services
• Open Dialogue and a how a network approach to crisis is keeping people out of hospital
• Creating safe healing spaces in our services and communities, for people to talk about suicidal thoughts
• Therapeutic Communities

Who should Attend

• Frontline staff
• People and families with personal experience with mental health issues
• Clinicians
• Managers
• Policymakers
• Commissioners
• Third Sector staff