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Our Wellness On the Line – Wed, Oct 3

Posted on September 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Our Wellness On the Line – Wed, Oct 3

Peer Warmline to Crisis Hotline: What Can I Expect?

Presented by Sharon Kuehn & Rachel Levy

  • Warmline vs Hotline: Which should I use?
  • What are my rights when I call a crisis line?
  • How does peer support differ from crisis services?

Sharon Kuehn

Sharon Kuehn leads the David Romprey Oregon Warmline and the new Oregon Senior Peer Outreach Service for Community Counseling Solutions. Both programs are firmly rooted in the practice of Intentional Peer Support (IPS). Sharon facilitates IPS training and serves as an advocate for Peer Delivered Services on the Oregon Consumer Advisory Council (OCAC). Sharon is also passionate about the healing power of nature and working to create new structures for our human family to find balance with nature, which she explores at http://lifeforcelearning.net.

Rachel Levy

Rachel Levy is a social worker who works for a crisis line in Portland.   She has always been passionate about social justice issues, and she believes strongly in the need for more person-centered and holistic options for mental health care.  Rachel  has been a member of Rethinking Psychiatry for 8 years.  She has written several articles for Mad in America,  including this one: And They Said it Wouldn’t Last – Rethinking Psychiatry Celebrates its 7th Year

Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 7-9 PM
Unite Oregon
700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR

Click here to download Information About Crisis Lines, from the October 3 presentation.

For questions, contact RethinkingPsychiatry@gmail.com or message us on our Facebook Page.

Update! Watch the YouTube Video of this talk:

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Open Dialogue – Mar 7, 2018

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Open Dialogue
Rethinking Psychiatry presents a screening of Open Dialogue.
A documentary film on the Western Lapland Open Dialogue Project, the program presently getting the best results in the developed world for treating first-break psychosis. Approximately 85% of those treated achieve full recovery, and a huge majority remain off antipsychotic drugs.

Filmed in Finland. Directed by Daniel Mackler. With Jaakko Seikkula, Robert Whitaker, Mia Kurtti, Markku Sutela, Birgitte Alakare.

Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon
700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR
(across from PCC Cascade Campus)
Click here for map

FREE! (Donations Welcome $0 – $20 suggested)
For questions, contact RethinkingPsychiatry@gmail.com

Click here to download flier

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Ron Unger: Conversations About Psychosis
Mar 15, 2018

Posted on February 20, 2018 | Comments Off on Ron Unger: Conversations About Psychosis
Mar 15, 2018

Finding Meaning and a Path to Recovery

When people hear distressing voices or become lost in an altered sense of reality, it’s easy to feel helpless, especially if drugs don’t work very well or don’t feel acceptable. But new, practical methods are emerging that help people to make sense of these experiences, and to regain control of their lives.

Ron Unger, LCSW

Ron Unger, LCSW

Ron Unger, LCSW will introduce some of these approaches, drawing from his work as a therapist specializing in CBT for Psychosis and as a facilitator of Hearing Voices groups.

Thursday, March 15, 2018, 7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon
700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR
(across from PCC Cascade Campus)
Click here for map

FREE! (Donations Welcome $0 – $20 suggested)
For questions, contact RethinkingPsychiatry@gmail.com

Click here to download flier

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Mar 15, 2018

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Rethinking Love – Feb 7, 2018

Posted on January 27, 2018 | Comments Off on Rethinking Love – Feb 7, 2018

Rethinking Love

Learning from each other’s experiences with:

  • Valentine’s Day?!
  • Honoring Loneliness
  • Loving someone in crisis
  • Love

Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon
700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR
(across from PCC Cascade Campus)
Click here for map

FREE! (Donations Welcome $0 – $20 suggested)
For questions, contact RethinkingPsychiatry@gmail.com

 

Photo credit: Louise Docker from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Own Your Journey – Dec 6, 2017

Posted on December 1, 2017 | Comments Off on Own Your Journey – Dec 6, 2017

Identity Mapping & Collage Making

Incorporate the 3 Tiers of Trauma Recovery

  • Unpack the hidden power within our identities and differences.
  • Explore areas where trauma and triumphs impact our personal narratives.
  • Integrate our unique experiences into collages of our stories.
  • Material provided!

Linnea

Presented by Linnea Stenhouse and Danielle Grondin:

Linnea Stenhouse is a clinician for EASA in Clackamas County. She values radical mental health perspectives and person-centered programing. She likes to integrate healthful living, yoga, art, and nature into her work. The intelligent, insightful, and creative young people she works with are a daily inspiration.

Danielle

Danielle Grondin is a Peer Support Outreach Specialist at Luke-Dorf. She is a passionate activist in the community working to radically support healing through mental health crises and beyond!

Wednesday, December 6, 2017,   7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon
700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR
(across from PCC Cascade Campus)

Photo credit: Ines Zgonc, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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CRAZYWISE and Gogo Ekhaya Esima – Nov 15 & 22, 2017

Posted on November 11, 2017 | Comments Off on CRAZYWISE and Gogo Ekhaya Esima – Nov 15 & 22, 2017

Rethinking Psychiatry, the M.O.M.S. Movement, Mental Health Providers Unite! and Portland Icarus present

CRAZYWISE and
Gogo Ekhaya Esima

Documentary Film CRAZYWISE

Wednesday, November 15, 2017,  7 – 9 PM

With free popcorn and drinks!

CRAZYWISE is about looking at what dominant culture pathologizes as mental illness as a spiritual crisis instead. The film frames this possibility through the work of Phil Borges, a photographer/videographer who documented human rights issues of indigenous peoples around the world.

CRAZYWISE doesn’t romanticize indigenous wisdom, or completely condemn Western treatment. Trailer and more info on the film’s website here.

Gogo Ekhaya Esima

“Sick & Gifted: Bridging the Connection to
Mental Health Issues & Spiritual Gifts”

Wednesday, November 22, 2017,   7 – 9 PM

Special guest speaker Gogo Ekhaya was one of the people featured in the documentary film CRAZYWISE. She ends her talk with a community ancestral blessing for participants.


Private Sangoma readings and personal healing sessions with Gogo Ekhaya will be available on November 23 – 26.

Gogo Ekhaya Esima is a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist in the Mental Health field, a Trauma Survivor, a Spiritual Coach, and initiated Healer  in the South African Sangoma tradition. She is trained in trauma-informed practices and blends these techniques with shamanic healing for a holistic approach to mental wellness. Gogo Ekhaya’s story and info on her website here.

This 2-part event is at
Unite Oregon
700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR
(across from PCC Cascade Campus)
Click here for map

FREE!  (Donations Welcome, $0 – $20 suggested)
For questions, contact RethinkingPsychiatry@gmail.com

Click here to download flyer.

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Rethinking ADHD – Nov 1, 2017

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Rethinking Psychiatry presents a screening of four TEDx talks by Emily Anhalt, Kathleen Nadeau, Salif Mahamane and Angela Aquirre on the subject of ADHD.  We will follow each film with a group discussion.  Come join us!

Wednesday, November 1st, 2017,   7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon
700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR
(across from PCC Cascade Campus)
Click here for map

FREE!  (Donations Welcome $0 – $20 suggested)
For questions, contact RethinkingPsychiatry@gmail.com

Click here to download flyer.

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Mask Making – October 4, 2017

Posted on September 28, 2017 | Comments Off on Mask Making – October 4, 2017

The Creative and Healing Process of Making Art

Presented by Wendy March Mailho-Shields of Claudiabelle Studio
Art Therapist, Para-Educator, Person with Lived Experience

  • Explore your inside world through making art!
  • Create who you can become!
  • Make your mask for Halloween!
  • Materials supplied!

Wendy March Mailho-Shields

The process of art making is as personal as ones spiritual quest. There is no right or wrong way, there is only me, making art ~ vision, composition, design, line, paint, color, mixing, brush, strokes, defining, layers, re-claiming, struggle, letting go, stepping back, returning, push it, over the edge, bring it back, take a break, try it again, recognize it’s a process, grow, learn, accept, it’s only art Art, parallel to life’s process ~ exploring and discovering the worst and best in ourselves. Designing our internal house with the knowledge of who we are, and hopefully manifesting, who we can become.

Wednesday, October 4th, 2017,   7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon
700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR
(across from PCC Cascade Campus)
Click here for map

FREE!  (Donations Welcome $0 – $20 suggested)
For questions, contact RethinkingPsychiatry@gmail.com

Click here to download flyer.

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Potluck & Story Telling- Weds, Sep 6, 2017

Posted on August 29, 2017 | Comments Off on Potluck & Story Telling- Weds, Sep 6, 2017


Join us for a potluck to celebrate our 7th year of Rethinking Psychiatry!

  • TELL your story of why/how you came to the Rethinking community
  • LOOK back at what we’ve accomplished in our last 6 years together
  • SHARE your ideas and hopes for the future
  • BRING a dish or drink to share & enjoy good food in good company

We look forward to seeing you there next Wednesday!

Let’s continue to share our passion for a more healing community!
Thank you for 6 years of inspiration and empowerment.

Wednesday, September 6th, 2017,  7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon, 700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR

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Mad Maps – Wednesday, June 7, 2017

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Strategies for Navigating the Space between Brilliance & Madness

  • What am I like when I am well?
  • What am I like when I am having a hard time?
  • What do I NOT want to hear or have happen?
  • Acceptable & unacceptable treatments?
  • How will my supporters know that I no longer need to use this plan?

We’ll work together to create our own Mad Maps in an atmosphere of mutual support.

Wednesday, June 7th, 2017,   7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon,  700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR

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