The third weekend was spent gathering together ready for the conference. Its home from home, with Marius Romme & Sandra Escher staying near us, we had them, Julie Downs, Paul Baker, Monica Hoffman, Trevor Eyles, Mike Smith & Marian Aslan for drinks t0 meet Joe Calleja the CEO of Richmond Fellowship. He has done a fantastic job at getting this conference organised
Recovery from Psychosis conference is the first of its kind here in Australia.
We had Rufus May, John Watkins, Ron, Myself, Jacqui Dylan, Romme & Escher, Dirk Corstens, all speaking at the same event here.
The atmosphere was electric; we had many workshops as well. People were buzzing and energised, the government of WA was there to talk about how they wanted to take the recovery agenda forward here. People attended from right across Australia. It was history in the making
This was then followed by the first ever intervoice meeting outside of Europe, Scotland won the prize for most attendees with at least 17 people there most of them voice hearers, there were also delegates from Japan, Germany, Denmark, Holland, England, Australia, NZ, & Palestine
The meeting concentrated on the relationship between emotions and voices, with lots of discussions & an open space event. There were 109 delegates and it was deemed the most successful Intervoice meeting so far.
We left lunchtime on Saturday, feeling a mixture of exhilaration & exhaustion to fly to Melbourne, the kids are staying with Ron’s sister for 2 weeks whilst we carry on working in Sydney & Melbourne
Ron Coleman and Karen Taylor have an international reputation as speakers and authors. They are the directors of ‘Working to Recovery Limited’ an innovative international consultancy, training and publishing company with a cutting edge approach to supporting and improving mental health provision.
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