Painted Brain Trainings

Painted Brain is offering Certified Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist trainings. Here are the next upcoming training dates. Click on the image to learn more.

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ANNOUNCING: ISPS-US Spiritual Wellness Conversation Groups: First Tuesdays at 8 pm and Third Saturdays at 11 am

For ISPS-US members, from Claire Bien

Dear all,
We are very pleased to announce the formation of two Spiritual Wellness Conversation Groups, which will take place  on first Tuesdays and third Saturdays of the month starting Tuesday, March 5. The core planning group, comprised of Bob Bergner, Amber Brown, Terresa Ford, Denise Maratos, Jeannie Bass, and myself, are excited to have the opportunity to provide and share space with others who hold spiritual understandings of our experiences and life/healing journeys.
The official announcement appears below.
If the group sounds appealing, please send an e-mail to Claire Bien, bienc@aol.com, indicating which you’d like to attend (you are welcome to attend both!) and I will send you the Zoom link.

Greatly looking forward to meeting and being in conversation with you!
Claire, Jeannie, Bob, Amber, Terresa, and Denise

iSPS-US Spiritual Wellness Conversation Groups

8:00 pm Eastern time on the first  Tuesday of each month

First meeting: Tuesday, March 5, at 8:00 pm Eastern.

Facilitators:  Jeannie Bass, Robert Bergner, Claire Bien, Denise Maratos

11:00 am Eastern time on the third Saturday of each month.

First meeting: Saturday, March 16, at 11:00 am Eastern.

Facilitators: Claire Bien, Amber Brown, Terresa Ford

Many people who live with, and sometimes struggle with, what are widely considered extraordinary perceptions and experiences, have found serenity, understanding, and enormous healing through spiritual understandings. Many of us have learned, over time, to embrace our extraordinary perceptions, allowing us to make peace with our experiences, with ourselves and others, and with the wider world, while some of us may still question and suffer from the various experiences we have gone through. 

This conversation group is intended as a safe learning and healing space, where we can share and explore with one another the ways in which our faith in something beyond ourselves and our practice has allowed us to find hope as we seek to find and reclaim our wholeness.-

Interested in being part of ISPS-US? Please visit the website.
https://isps-us.org/

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.

Register online at EventBrite

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.

Register

Love and the Person-Centered Approach: Eros, Agape, and Unconditional Positive Regard

Dr Manu Bazanno on Love and the Person-centered Approach: Eros, Agape, and Unconditional Positive Regard

Unconditional Positive Regard, a key notion in person-centered and humanistic therapies, means radical acceptance of self and others. It sits at the cusp of Agape (impersonal, divine love) and Eros (relational, transformative desire). The ancient Greeks had several other names for love, each of them related to different circumstances and interactions. We will explore some of these experientially and in theory, drawing on the work of Carl Rogers, Suzanne Keys, Peter Schmidt, Manu Bazzano, and others. The workshop is suitable to experienced therapists, trainees, and anyone interested in human development.

Dr Manu Bazzano is an author, person-centred/existential therapist/supervisor and internationally recognized lecturer and facilitator. He has been editor of Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapies Journal Among his books: Re-Visioning Person-centred Therapy: the Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm (Routledge, 2018) and Nietzsche and Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2019). His latest book is Subversion and Desire: Pathways to Transindividuation.

www.manubazzano.com

This workshop will be recorded for delegates who can’t attend live.

A CPD certificate for 2 hours will be available after the workshop.

Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:00

Dr Manu Bazzano on Love and the Person-centered Approach

Register

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dr-manu-bazzano-on-love-and-the-person-centred-approach-tickets-776848724447

Cost: £17.70 (19.25 USD) to £69.50 ( 76.04 USD)

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.