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Welcome Dina!
MY MAD SPACE
I would like this to be a space for anyone who is using their lived experience of mental distress in their teaching - or would like to!! - (this could be service users -past/present, service avoiders, or 'slipped through the net' - and could involve appointed teaching staff as well as service-user educators)
I would like to explore many issues - including accessing critical student and colleague feedback, understanding the impact of sharing experience on both the giver and the receiver, supporting those people who want to 'come out' and name their madness within a teaching and learning setting and weighing up all the risks/opportunities/costs/benefits -
and I would like to give and receive support with others who share of themselves in a hugely personal way -
I would appreciate other potential group members helping me to define how this group might work and what its boundaries should be
please message me if you would prefer to discuss this in confidence
thank you - and love - Julie
Hi, Julie
thank you for the message.
I use my lived experience of mental distress both in carrying out research and providing training - I work as a researcher at Manchester University, Centre for Women's Mental Health-so I have similar concerns to yours. Yes, I would love to join your group.
take care
dina
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how do i join your group? how does it work?
THANKS AND WELCOME INTO MY MAD SPACE WHICH I HOPE WILL BE A LIMINAL EXPERIENCE FOR US ALL - HAVE YOU ANY IDEAS FOR HOW WE SHOULD START TO THINK ABOUT ITS PROCESSES? - FOR EXAMPLE - HOW TO SUPPORT AND INVOLVE ANYONE WHO MIGHT FEEL LESS SAFE ABOUT DISCLOSING THEMSELVES AS A PERSON WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE IN A GROUP WHOSE MEMBERSHIP IS VISIBLE TO OTHERS ON A WIDER SITE
Hi, Julie
thank you for your kind words about my blog.
as regards supporting people who may feel less safe around disclosure, I think that people may start being involved in the Mad Space without necessarily declaring their lived experience to start with...and hopefully they may feel safe to disclose or not disclose as time goes by...I am not sure... this is just a thought...i will think about it more...take care,dina
Hi, Julie
thanks for this
if joining My Mad Space presumes lived experience of distress by definition, what about those people who are strong 'allies' of us mad without necessarily having lived experiences? what about the 'mad-positive' as an activist from Toronto calls them (ie having positive attitudes towards madness and the mad)? what if they want to express an opinion on issues us mad are pre-occupied with? is there a danger that my Mad Space could become exclusionary in this way?
these are genuine information-seeking questions, Julie, I do not mean to be obnoxious :-))
thanks
take care
dina
observations were spot on! - were you there last night also?? - I had a great talk with Angela afterwards re the hearing voices research and emancipatory research in general - a shame you had gone - are you in Nottm often??
Hi, Julie
Sorry I missed you last night too.
Torsten from Making Waves indicated to me that you were in the audience but i had to run to catch a train back to manchester. eventually trains were delayed and i missed my connections, so british rail paid for a taxi for me and Helen to take us to manchester from sheffield station - I arrived home at 2am!!!!
but i am glad i went to the anti-psychiatry event, it was really good.
i do go to nottingham often, I used to live there so i have a few friends.
I will let you know next time I am going to come down, so perhaps we could meet up. that would be lovely!
take care
dina
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