Here we stretched our timeline to the highlights of the 12 years that F.E.E.L. has been around, enlisting our major events and some of the ones we have proactively been involved into, wishing to remember an honor all the collective campaigners work and achievements that are allowing mental health patients to be taken care of with more attention and respect. Work in progress...
These 12 years of our work incidentally include another quite precise cycle within, as we have been around for a full Sheng Xiao, the 12 years cycle of the Chinese Zodiac.
The new 12 years cycle is starting on the 25 Jan 2020.
Finding the fact somehow exciting and auspicious...
Happy Year of the Rat! And 2020! And 20s!
2007
Finding the fact somehow exciting and auspicious...
Happy Year of the Rat! And 2020! And 20s!
2007
- November: F.E.E.L. is BORN
2008
2008
- June: HUMANE THERAPY – NOT DRUG TYRANNY
First public event at Kingsley Hall Bow with speakers: Rufus May, Sarah Barratt, Nathalie Fonnesu
2009
First public event at Kingsley Hall Bow with speakers: Rufus May, Sarah Barratt, Nathalie Fonnesu
2009
- October: HUMANE THERAPY – NOT DRUG TYRANNY II
Guest speakers: Dr Bob Johnson (www.truthtrustconsent.com) and Tower Hamlets African and Caribbean Mental Health Organisation (THACMHO) members.
Guest speakers: Dr Bob Johnson (www.truthtrustconsent.com) and Tower Hamlets African and Caribbean Mental Health Organisation (THACMHO) members.
2010
Organised in collaboration with the Survivors History Group & Tower Hamlets African and Caribbean Mental Health Organisation (THACMHO) studymore.org.uk/pageant.htm;
Speakers: Dr Joanna Moncrieff, Sarah Barratt, Nathalie Fonnesu.
- October: (supporting) A Public Execution, by Mad Pride
A day of action to oppose welfare benefit cuts for people labelled mentally ill with a demonstration at Speakers Corner
2011
- March: A Day of Workshops, facilitated by Denise McKenna (Survivors Resistance Network), Robert Dellar (Mad Pride), David Amery (Housing Links) and THACMHO - Tower Hamlets African and Caribbean Mental Health Organisation.
- June: Double Attack on Our Mental Health
Speakers: Dave Skull (Mental Health Survivors Network), Mad Pride; David Amery (Housing Link).
- July: (supporting) Speak Out Against Psychiatry - Protest
First ever Speak Out Against Psychiatry public event, protesting outside the Royal College of Psychiatry friends-of-east-end-loonies.blogspot.com/2011/07/speak-out-against-psychiatry-press.html
Speaker: Prof Roland Littlewood
- Summer: Historical times as the grounds of the St Clements Hospital in Bow were re-opened after years of silent closure, following the shutting down of the hospital. The very site where some of F.E.E.L. roots sprouted.
- August: Outsiders Poetry @ Closing of the Shuffle Festival
- December: Outsiders Poetry @ Winter Shuffle
- February: Sanity in an era of rabid capitalism?
- April: OPEN DIALOGUE APPROACH
2012:
- November: HUMANE THERAPY – NOT DRUG TYRANNY V
Speakers: Joe Kelly, (Survivor, Activist), Dr Peter Barham, David Skull (Mental Health Resistance Network).
2013:
- May: HUMANE THERAPY – NOT DRUG TYRANNY VI
Speakers: Joe Kelly, (Survivor, Activist), Nat Fonnesu (Survivor, Complementary Therapist), David Skull (Mental Health Resistance Network).
2013:
- May: HUMANE THERAPY – NOT DRUG TYRANNY VI
Speakers: Joe Kelly, (Survivor, Activist), Nat Fonnesu (Survivor, Complementary Therapist), David Skull (Mental Health Resistance Network).
- Summer: Historical times as the grounds of the St Clements Hospital in Bow were re-opened after years of silent closure, following the shutting down of the hospital. The very site where some of F.E.E.L. roots sprouted.
Via the Shuffle Festival, the diverse, local communities of Tower Hamlets were brought together to this awesome space in East London, creating an opportunity of merging and meshing of cultureswww.shufflefestival.com
- July: Outsiders Poetry and Ravaged Wonderful Earth book launch; a warm up, pre-opening of the Shuffle Festival www.scribd.com/
- August: Outsiders Poetry @ Closing of the Shuffle Festival
- December: Outsiders Poetry @ Winter Shuffle
2014
- February: Sanity in an era of rabid capitalism?
Speaker: Denise McKenna (Mental Health Resistance Network).
- August: Outsiders Poetry @ Shuffle Festival
- November: SANITY FOR BEGINNERS
Speakers: Dr Kevin Zdaniecki, David Amery.
2015
- April: OPEN DIALOGUE APPROACH
Speakers: Dr Russell Razzaque, Nick Putman, Open Dialogue Experts and Training Team from Finland
- June: "ASYLUM" Film screening & Panel discussion with Dr Adrian Laing (R.D. Laing’s son), Dr Morton Schatzman (original Philadelphia Association), Francis Gillet (former Kingsley Hall resident).
- August: Outsiders Poetry @ Shuffle Festival
- November: DRUG TYRANNY & HUMAN RIGHTS
2016
- September: KNOWING OUR RIGHTS
Speakers: Joanna Turner (East London Foundation Trust), Ian Begg (MH advocate)
2017
May: RADAR & PIP updates
Dr. Joanna Moncrieff (Critical Psychiatrists Network, RADAR - Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation And Reduction lead);
Marian O’Brien (Mental Health Resistance Network).
- September: LOONIES FEST
F.E.E.L. 10th birthday bash, celebrating survivors activism and sending healing down in times while remembering and honouring all victims of psychiatric abuse and assault
2018
- February: CRPD Study Group: a series of gatherings to familiarise ourselves with the United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities crpdcourse.org
- May: (supporting) SPiRiT of Philip Morgan of TACHMO
Organised by the Survivors History Group with the support from Tower Hamlets Archives
Organised by the Survivors History Group with the support from Tower Hamlets Archives
- June: The Mental Health Act review
Updates by Dorothy Gould (Survivor researcher and consultant at NSUN)
2019
- March: "Psychiatry: An Abuse Of Human Rights?"
Speakers: Akiko Hart (ISPS UK; Hearing Voices Network; Mind in Camden), Dorothy Gould (Survivor Consultant, Researcher and Trainer), Liz Brosnan (Survivor Researcher, SURE - Service User Research Enterprise; EURIKHA )- June: Peer Power - with Chris Hansen of Intentional Peer Support
2019 also granted us a series of informal gatherings/meetings with Internationally active survivors campaigners Sasha Altman DuBrul and Tina Minkowitz.
- November: 12 YEARS OLD!!!
Special occasion to celebrate F.E.E.L. collective work over the years and remember past and present Survivors and campaigners, followed by a poetry & music session
2020
- New Year & Decade to explore, starting with a bang... or more precisely a gong!!!
See you on 20 January 2020 @ LARC 😊
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