Past Events

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Past events from our newsletter: deprescribing psychatiatry, hidden gens, and mental health advocacy as well as ICOSS, mad pride, human Rights and social justice, storytelling hour, isps open dialogue, and olmstead then & now, US healthcare, the flying dhild, and Peer pathways. Continue reading →

AD4E Workshops

offerings with non-pathologising approaches

CHECK OUT AD4E’s UPCOMING EVENTS – because labels don’t tell truthful stories.

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LACCC presents: Innovations in Recovery Conference, Monday, June 23rd, 8am – 4pm

The LOS ANGELES COUNTY CLIENT COALITION is putting on the 3rd Annual Innovations in Recovery Conference. The conference will ill take place on Monday, June 23, 2014 at the California Endowment Center (Directions & Innovations Conf 2014.flyer)  located at 1000 N. Alameda Street Los Angeles, CA 90012, from 8:00am to 4:00 pm. 

Please join us!!! The Wildflowers’ Movement will be exhibiting and presenting SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND, an innovative workshop with music, singing and art! Our group is about giving & receiving mindful support while practicing self-awareness, cultivating radical wellness, and celebrating diversity. We meet every 1st and 3rd Sunday at SHARE! in Culver City and out at various events, and in nature, our natural habitat.

 

 

Found Voices: Art Exhibit, Poetry, Music

Join us where ART and SCIENCE collide with Art, Poetry & Music at the California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA Art/ Sci + Lab, Gallery, at UCLA CNSI, this coming Tuesday, May 20th, at 6.30-9.00 p.m.

The CNSI UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab is dedicated to pursuing and promoting the evolving “Third Culture” by facilitating the infinite potential of collaborations between (media) arts and (bio/nano) sciences.

 The center’s affiliation with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) offers access to cutting edge researchers and their laboratories and a dedicated gallery for exhibitions. The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) is a research center at UCLA whose mission is to encourage university collaboration with industry and to enable the rapid commercialization of discoveries in nanosystems. CNSI members who are on the faculty at UCLA represent a multi-disciplinary team of some of the world’s preeminent scientists. The work conducted at the CNSI represents world-class expertise in four targeted areas of nanosystems-related research including Energy, Environment, Health-Medicine, and Information Technology.

                                                                                                                                                            CNSI NEW DIRECTIONS  are attached… Parking is $12, $5 w “disability” pass. There is meter parking on La Conte Ave. and parking at Ralphs on La Conte – if you decide to shop and/or risk it 🙂

STAND-UP COMEDY FOR OUR WELL-BEING

Posted April 30, 2014, at Crazywise by Phil Borges, post by Crazywise co-director, Kevin Tomlinson

One of the most audacious and exciting forms of treatment for our health is laughter. David Granirer of Vancouver B.C. who lives with depression, is a counselor, stand up comic, keynote speaker on mental health and author (The Happy Neurotic, How Fear and Angst Can Lead to Happiness and Success). David founded “Stand Up for Mental Health“, an 8 week stand-up comedy program to people with mental illness as a way of building self-esteem and fighting public stigma. 

Stand Up for Health

Posted at ted.com,  June 2011, Joshua walters

Just Crazy Enough

 

http://www.thejoshuawalters.com/

Joshua Walters is a comedian, poet, educator and performer. He incorporates elements of spoken word and beatbox into his shows in a mash-up of comedy, intimate reflection and unpredictable antics. In the last two years, Walters has performed at theaters and universities throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East.

Finding a Voice, UCLA Broad Art Center, May 6th

Finding a Voice to Silence the Crowd:

Health Through the Arts

Photo Art by Sandra Cheng

Tuesday, May 6^th, 7-8.30 pm at the UCLA 2100A Broad Art Center

Dave Leon, LCSW, Foundation Director of “The Painted Brain” and Jim McGrath, Director of the Imagination Workshop at UCLA Semel Institute, will discuss the work of Imagination Workshop & Painted Brain, both peer-driven creative arts programs for adults with mental health issues.

A 15-minute performance and a Q & A between a psychiatrist and program participant will follow.

Celebration Festival

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, April 26th at SHARE!  (we will attend this Festival instead of our regular 3rd Sunday meeting on April 20th, since many members will be celebrating Easter)

Please come by our booth and/or call 951.638.WELL or email us at:  wildflowersmovement@gmail.com for more information!!! We will also have a group meeting on this day and lunch will be served.

We look forward to seeing you there!!!