Spiritist Healing

A (r)Evolution in Mental Healthcare
_{Spiritist healing is a form of alternative medicine that combines spiritual beliefs with healing practices. It’s rooted in the principles of Spiritism, a philosophical and spiritual movement that originated in the 19th century in France.}

Spiritist healing, originating from Brazil, offers an alternative approach to mental health treatment amidst the rising epidemic of mental disorders in the United States. With one in five Americans relying on prescribed psychiatric medications despite their limitations, exploring spiritual therapies becomes imperative.

In Brazil, where Spiritism has thrived for over a century, Spiritist healing is deeply ingrained in the culture. Over 13,000 community centers and fifty psychiatric hospitals integrate conventional psychiatry with spiritual healing practices. Patients undergo comprehensive evaluations before receiving tailored treatments that may include energy work, blessed water, and compassionate fellowship.

A typical stay in a Spiritist psychiatric hospital involves holistic care in a serene environment, often on grounds once used for farming. Patients engage in activities like gardening and benefit from the presence of animals, fostering a sense of connection with nature uncommon in traditional hospital settings.

Spiritist healing emphasizes spiritual growth and individual meaning, incorporating practices such as meditation and prayer. Community centers offer a range of services, from energy healing to pre-natal care, all aimed at promoting wellness and spiritual evolution.

Despite charging for certain services, Spiritist healers offer their gifts for free, believing them to be divine blessings. This model of care, deeply rooted in compassion and sensitivity, presents a compelling alternative to the current mental healthcare landscape in the United States.

The integration of Spiritist healing into mainstream mental healthcare is gaining attention, with initiatives like the Spiritual Emergence Network recognizing its potential. By re-evaluating the reliance on psychiatric medications and exploring alternative modalities, Spiritist healing offers a promising avenue for mental health treatment.

To learn more about Spiritist Healing, explore online courses and seminars offered by organizations like Integrative Mental Health University, led by experts such as Emma Bragdon, who has extensively researched and promoted Spiritist healing practices.

a workshop with Will Hall April 18th, 2024

Will’s workshop explores the taboo and fear around suicidal feelings towards respectful suicide prevention that also embraces human rights.

Thursday 18th April 2024

6pm BST, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT, 3am AEST

How can suicide prevention really help people – and also embrace human rights?

This training will help overcome fear surrounding suicidal feelings, empower us to speak more openly, give us concrete tools for engaging ourselves and others, and prepare us to transform organizational cultures and community responses to suicidal feelings. Committed to living, Will is also someone who lives with suicidal feelings, and he calls for community inclusion of people facing these taboo experiences.

A CPD certificate for 2.5 hours will be available on request after the workshop.

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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 →

Menopause Madness! from AD4E

Wednesday May 22, 2024 04:00AM – 06:30AM PDT

In 2025 there will be an estimated one billion women going through menopause (Hill, 1996). Prescriptions for anti-depressants are being offered before the question is explored as to whether a women is in the peri/menopause phase. This lack of recognition of the true impact can potentially disempower and disadvantage those most in need.

This workshop looks to understand how to manage the ever-expanding demographic of menopause whilst avoiding the marketing of the trojan horse of menopause that is being commodified at an alarming rate.

It will encourage participants to question the ‘why’ in the headlines indicating the rise in suicide rates amongst women in the 45-54 age bracket, higher rates of divorce, depression, anxiety, paranoia and rage and why women are leaving their careers. If peri/menopause is not the direct causation there is certainly room to discuss the correlation between such events – and we will not know until we talk about it openly.

Through discussion and not didactic conditioning from an ever present “McMedia Circus” this workshop will bring in the lived-experience voice/s alongside evidence-based facts. Challenging the seeming bias to treat those in the peri/menopause stage of life as a prescriptive ‘mental health’ tick box – next patient please! (Even NICE guidelines, are clear that HRT and not anti-depressants should be the first line treatment for low mood due to menopause).

Participants will be able to consider an emerging new paradigm which we believe reflects a human centred approach where the most valuable support for those in peri/menopause is in the recognition of the individual experience. From there we can collectively recognise how a co-produced support network can be built to offer what is needed in the peri/menopause phase – beyond the guaranteed consumers for the pharmaceutical industry.

Annesh de Vos will be presenting this workshop – supported by Dr Helen Douglas.

A CPD certificate for 2.5 hours will be available on request after the workshop.

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How to encourage brain cells to grow

Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret speaks on TEDtalks about sex, the taste of food, wine, depression, exercise, and comedy can affect neuro-cellular growth. 

from June 2015

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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 🙂