Compassionate Mental Health is a conference dedicated to transformation in the way we live and work with mental health crises and distress and therapeutic approaches that move beyond a purely biomedical model in terms of sustainable recovery from a mental health crisis.
Compassionate Mental Health covers topics such as:
- The importance of meaning in mental distress and psychosis
- How to exercise our inner strength to resource ourselves and others
- Enabling the shift towards a more democratic approach that focuses on the whole person and building resilience
- Breakdown as opportunity for breakthrough and growth
- How we form authentic relationships, learn to listen deeply, and feel safe to share our difficulties
- Building equity and understanding between everyone involved in mental health services
- Open Dialogue and a how a network approach to crisis is keeping people out of hospital
- Creating safe healing spaces in our services and communities, for people to talk about suicidal thoughts
- Therapeutic Communities
Compassionate Mental Health brings together:
- Frontline staff
- People and families with personal experience with mental health issues
- Clinicians
- Managers
- Policymakers
- Commissioners
- Third Sector staff