Podcasts about rai waddingham

This week on MIA Radio we share the audio from our first Town Hall panel discussion. Mad in America, Open Excellence and the HOPEnDialogue project have collaborated to create an ongoing series of Town Hall discussions exploring the challenges, learnings and opportunities for personal and societal growth found through dialogical responses to crisis in the age of COVID-19. The title of this first discussion is: Are We Living in the Most Dialogical Time Ever? And the hosts are Kermit Cole and Louisa Putnam. COVID-19 has forced us all into new ways of being, new ways of relating to each other, and new ways of responding to each other in a time of crisis. These new ways reveal more clearly than ever how essential dialogue is to the human experience.  What are dialogical practitioners doing — and learning — in this time of crisis? What do these learnings suggest or make possible that might have previously seemed unattainable? What insights do people who have lived with a sense of crisis, often cut off from “mainstream” dialogues, have to offer a world in crisis? Hosts Kermit Cole and Louisa Putnam are inspired by Open Dialogue to respond as a team to individuals, couples and families in crisis. They have hosted many symposia in Santa Fe, New Mexico to explore the intersections between Open Dialogue, Hearing Voices, and other Dialogical approaches, and recently completed their studies under Jaakko Seikkula to be Open Dialogue trainers. Panellists Jaakko Seikkula teaches Dialogical practice to the many people around the world who have been inspired by the Open Dialogue, the response to mental health crises in Tornio, Finland that Jaakko’s team created. Richard Armitage is a dialogical practitioner and trainer in Denmark at a large centre for supported living and rehabilitation. Iseult Twamley is a Clinical Psychologist and Open Dialogue Trainer/Supervisor. Since 2012 she has been Clinical Lead of the Cork  Open Dialogue Implementation, Ireland.  Rai Waddingham is an Open Dialogue Practitioner, international trainer, and has created, established and managed innovative Hearing Voices Network projects in youth, prison, forensic, inpatient and community settings. Andrea Zwicknagl is a peer support worker in Switzerland and a board member of HOPEnDialogue.

Rai Waddingham from the Hearing Voices Network and Geoff Brennan from Starwards talk at the 'After the Mental Health Act review' event in London.

John McGowan, Anne Cooke, Angela Gilchrist, Rachel Terry and Emma Rye discuss involuntary treatment in mental health. In this edition we discuss the compulsory powers available in the mental health system in the UK These include the Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health Act (MHA). The regular panel is joined by Emma Rye, a Clinical Psychologist working in in the field of learning disabilities. Emma is currently in training to take up the role of a ‘Responsible Clinician’ under the MHA. We also have interviews with Dr Matthew Debenham, an NHS psychiatrist, and with service users Rai Waddingham and Raza Griffiths, both of whom discuss how compulsory powers were used in their own treatment. As the Prime Minister has recently said she would like to ‘rip up’ the Mental Act (see below) our panel also offer Theresa May advice on what to replace it with. You can follow us on Twitter @CCCUApppsy and on Facebook if you search for Canterbury Christ Church University Applied Psychology. You can follow Angela on Twitter @cyberwhispers, Anne @AnneCooke14 and Rachel @rterrypsy. Links to things we talked about on this show: A brief overview of the 2007 overhaul of the 1983 Mental Health Act. This 2007 update is still the dominant legislative framework today… http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107105354/http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/NationalServiceFrameworks/Mentalhealth/DH_078743 … and the Mental Health Act Code of Practice, intended to provide a guide for professionals, service users and carers on the operation of this legislation. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/code-of-practice-mental-health-act-1983 A useful summary of the principles of the Mental Capacity Act, which allows people to make ‘unwise’ decisions: provided they have the capacity to do so. http://www.scie.org.uk/mca/introduction/mental-capacity-act-2005-at-a-glance Some information on Theresa May’s Mental Health Act announcement. A pledge to ‘rip it up’… https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/every-school-will-get-mental-health-expert-pledges-may-flm9tthf9 …and some suggestions for what might replace it. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/09/theresa-may-mental-health-act-care You can follow Rai Waddingham on Twitter @RaiWaddingham and find a range of resources on her website. http://www.behindthelabel.co.uk/ A recent paper from the British Journal of Psychiatry suggesting that being admitted to a mental health ward may have negative consequences for suicidal risks. http://bjpo.rcpsych.org/content/3/3/102 This Guardian article offers a personal account by a nurse involved in compulsory treatment. https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2017/mar/16/hate-restraining-mental-health-patients-what-choice   This short piece by legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg highlights some of the main issue in replacing European human rights legislation. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/11/human-rights-reform-michael-gove-justice-secretary   This small research study suggests quite mixed experience of involuntary detention and also addresses some of the issues in how to improve people’s experiences. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232053059_Patients'_perceptions_of_the_impact_of_involuntary_inpatient_care_on_self_relationships_and_recovery Please note The views and opinions expressed in this discussion are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any of the contributors' employing organisations. Producer: John McGowan Additional technical support: Saul McGowan Music: http://www.bensound.com/

Hosted by Rai Waddingham, someone who has personal experience of madness and distress, Looking Behind The Label explores what it means to be a human in a world that can make you feel crazy. In this episode, Rai shares her own journey through madness to connection, including some of the songs she has used to express herself. Episode contents: Introduction Part One: The early days - how I felt 'different' as a child, surviving childhood abuse, becoming overwhelmed, hearing voices, seeing visions and keeping secrets. Song: Spiders Part Two: Finding a way through madness - the impact of diagnosis and hospitalisation on my sense of self, attending a hearing voices group and finding people to talk with. The power of peer support and self help. Becoming a person again, finding tentative connections.  Song: Don't Break the Spell Part Three: Becoming Rai - beginning to realise I had something to offer the world, training others, coming off medication and rethinking the concept of psychosis, schizophrenia and mental illness. Finding love. Song: Feels Like Home Final words: My take home message. It's OK to not be OK. We're all human, after all. For more information on Rai, see: www.behindthelabel.co.uk

Hearing Voices: suffering, inspiration and the everyday is a major exhibition on voice-hearing produced by Hearing the Voice and Durham University's Palace Green Library. During the summer of 2016, nine young people who hear voices took part in a series of arts workshops in Bradford, Leeds and Durham. With the support of Rai Waddingham (a voice-hearer and facilitator) and Mary Robson (Creative Facilitator, Hearing the Voice), they came together to share experiences, challenge stigma and create artwork for the exhibition that sends a positive message to other young voice-hearers and their families. In this podcast, the participants reflect on their contribution to the workshops and what they gained from the experience. Produced by Andrea Rangecroft for Hearing Voices: suffering, inspiration and the everyday.