Hi Kerry.
How lovely to read about your experience. It must have been quite something to your participants
warmest regards .
Inge, Denmark
>From: kerry napuk <
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>Subject: user event
>Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:10:10 +0100
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>Hi
>
>Over the last two days, we facilitated an event with 102 mental
>health users from all parts of Scotland. In two rounds of issues
>and
>actions on finding a collective voice during day one, they convened
>30 sessions with 90 actions. On day two on making their voice
>heard,
>service users created 14 project teams, including plans to form a
>new
>national organisation. The opening circle was pulsating with energy
>and set the scene for a very memorable event.
>
>There were many stories of personal courage, participants who came
>to
>Dundee having not left their houses in more than two years and not
>having been away overnight or on a train alone for more years than
>they could recall.
>
>Even though participants were all users of mental health services
>and
>were coping with various medical illnesses, they stuck into the work
>with great gusto and humour. It was a magnificent conference of
>individual learning and sharing, as well as collective
>consciousness.
>
>Regards
>
>Kerry
>Open Futures
>Edinburgh
>
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