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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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Creative Approaches to Voices, Visions, and Other Sensory Phenomena (WEBINAR) 1/25/2024

Upcoming Webinar 1/25/24 | Creative Approaches to Voices, Visions, and Other Sensory Phenomena

Creative Approaches to Voices, Visions, and Other Sensory Phenomena, with Tami Gatta, Creative Arts Therapist and co-founder of the Hearing Voices Network NYC.

Date: Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Time: 12-1:30pm (Eastern) 9am to 10:30 Pacific

Webinar Description 

When words do not suffice, how do people find ways to express? Learn more about strategies incorporating the use of art, drama and movement that allow individuals to both externalize and concretize unique experiences. Techniques are focused on expanding modes of communication, decreasing isolation, and exploring the potential for role play, role expansion, and humor.

Hearing Voices Course – Spring 2024

And if this isn’t exciting enough, stay tuned for ISPS-US’s Spring Workshop Series announcement, featuring Tami as one of six expert presenters exploring various psychological frameworks for working with Voice Hearing. The course will be capped at 40 participants.

About the Presenter:

Tami Gatta, MA, LCAT, RDT

Tami Michelle Gatta is a graduate of NYU’s Steinhardt School, where she earned her MA in Drama Therapy. A Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, she has chosen to further her trauma studies in both the US and abroad. In 2013, Tami became the first American to complete a 3-month externship with Ron Coleman and Karen Taylor in respite care and alternatives to hospitalization for individuals navigating voices, visions and other experiences deemed “psychosis.” In 2015, Tami began speaking more openly about her own trauma history and mental health struggles, ultimately becoming a Certified Peer Specialist. In 2016, she graduated from the Institute for Arts in Psychotherapy, where she went on to become Co-Director. In 2017, Tami was presented with the World Hearing Voices Congress Award for “Outstanding Contribution to the Growth and Development of the International Hearing Voices Movement.” Tami is the founder of Tami Gatta Mental Health Counseling, PLLC pending, where she provides individual psychotherapy and trauma-informed supervision to peers, students, clinicians and supervisors. She is also the co-founder of Curious Rebels, LLC, a CE granting, training and consulting firm, which offers professional support series on mental health and staff retention, the incorporation of peer specialists into the workforce, trauma-informed care, vicarious resilience, as well as a 3-year post-graduate program geared towards using improvisation and embodiment as a means of healing. Tami is a co-founder of Hearing Voices Network NYC, where she is a primary trainer in the Hearing Voices Movement. Tami is committed to ongoing personal growth, and emphasizes queer-empowering, anti-racist, fat liberation work that addresses historic and present inequities in mental health treatment.

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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.