F.E.E.L. - Friends of East End Loonies

Friday, 1 March 2019

March Newsletter

Dear Friends,

Today, Friday 1st of March, marks the National Day of Action Against Universal Credit; local actions protesting to Scrap Universal Credit are taking place Nationwide.

In London the action is happening in Parliament Square from 12noon-4:30pm and at Peckham Jobcentre from 1:30pm.

Universal Credit seems to be one of the biggest changes of the welfare system, affecting employed/unemployed people, those with long term conditions and the disabled, as well as working families. It brings together under the same umbrella six welfare benefits: Child Tax Credit, Housing Benefit, Income Support, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Working Tax Credit, supposedly wanting simplifying the existing complicated systems.

However so far seems this is creating great disruption and difficulties: some people have received no payment for weeks, left in debt and with difficulties not everyone can handle, specially when alone, vulnerable and/or ill. It might be working for some few, but it has also pushed many people to rely more and more on food banks, and some have taken their own lives. The system is obviously full of faults and as it is constantly changing only few find it to make sense. Four single mothers have successfully taken DWP to Higher Court, winning their case on unlawful assessments.

If the Welfare Reform and Work Act (2016) impacted you or your family do seek for help, do not despair. Also do get in touch to help Inclusion London research by next week, March 8th.

In 3 weeks time we are going to have our FEEL event at Kingsley Hall, "Psychiatry: An Abuse Of Human Rights?" on Friday 22 March.

If you have not seen the leaflet yet, please find copies attached in various formats and share where possible, please.

We will be meeting for the March monthly meeting at LARC on Monday 18th. Please join us if you can.

In the main time we'd like to wish to the Cool To Believe group at Bow Haven, a very Happy 5th Birthday, which will be celebrated on Wed 13th March (pls note that you need to be registered or get in touch with them first, if new to the group).

Please find below some updates and forthcoming events. NSUN has launched a new Campaign on the Value of User Led Groups.

There are raising alarms over the number of user-led services closed down. The same has been happening for Deaf Cultural and Social Centres, Deaf Schools and specialised centres that provide dedicated services as required by individual's needs. Ability Bow, London's only Disability Gym is also at risk. Sign the petition pls you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-london-s-only-disabled-gym

Services are disappearing, going mainstream, privatised, or packed together to give attention to corporate profits and greed, rather than fulfilling basic and necessary human needs.

Where is society going to? Will the "few privileged" ones ever be happy?

The Value of User Led Groups - NSUN 2019 Campaign

Please complete the survey at the latest by Monday March 25th www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ NSUNGROUPSCAMPAIGN2019

If you have any difficulty with doing this, please let us know at info@nsun.org.uk or call us at 020 7820 8982

See also the article User-led sector ‘faces threat of extinction' www.disabilitynewsservice.com/user-led-sector-faces-threat-of-extinction/

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

Friday 1 March - Sunday 31 March 2019.

Multiple venues.

East London: www.alternativearts.co.uk/womens-history-month/4581216304

womenshistorymonth.gov

www.womenshistorymonth.org.uk

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Friday, 8 March

- Women's Strike LONDON womenstrike.org.uk

Happening at various times and locations across town:

-10am - 12pm, My Mum Is On Strike - free stay and play sessions in Walthamstow, Hackney, Deptford

-5pm - 7pm, Assembly - outside the Bank of England

-7pm - 9pm, Sex/Work Strike, Leicester Square

-9pm - 3pm, Women's Strike After Party, The Jago 440 Kingsland Road Dalston E8 4AA

If your organization would like to support the women's strike please email info@womenstrike.org.uk

-Defending our children & our world, by Global Women’s Strike

12-14pm Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London WC2A 2LL

WinVisible, Mental Health Resistance Network women and others in the disability movement are taking part in this outdoor event.

More info contact E:win@winvisible.org W:www.facebook.com/events/2117155768401277

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East End Women's Museum, Profiles, Making the Museum eastendwomensmuseum.org

Are you a local resident with strong ties to your local community? Are you interested in women's history?

Do you want to see a museum representing the amazing women of east London, past and present? Then, we are looking for you!

If you're interested please fill in this form by Sunday 10th March 11pm. Selected participants to be interviewed on 18th and 19th March.

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DARK NIGHTS of the SOUL Philadelphia Association Film Season 2019

4 Marty's Yard, 17 Hampstead High Street, London NW3 1QW

FREE monthly gatherings with film screenings followed by discussions.

E: office @ philadelphia- association.org.uk ; Ph: 0207 794 2652; www.philadelphia-association. com / events

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Shaping Our Lives AGM

21 March, Voluntary Action Islington, 200a Pentonville Road, London, N1 JP.

To attend please contact becki@shapingourlives.org.uk tel no.07956 424511

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"Psychiatry: An Abuse Of Human Rights?"

Friday 22 March 7-9 pm Doors to open at 6:30pm

Kingsley Hall Community Centre, 1 Powis Road, London E3 3HJ

friends-of-east-end-loonies.blogspot.com/p/events.html

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Mental Health After Capitalism Public · by Mental Health Under Capitalism

Wed 27 March, 18: 45-21: 00, Common House 5E Pundersons Gardens, E2 9QG

What would mental health look like after capitalism? In part 1 and 2 of this series we talked about what capitalism does to our mental health. Amongst the bleak visions and grinding oppressions of the current moment, in this 3rd and final part, we will meet to think about what happens afterwards? What if we won? What kind of mental health care do we want and should we demand? What would the effect of a more egalitarian and classless society have on our lives and mental health? What would a society based on collective care, community and the commons look like? A world without bosses and profit, without borders, racism and patriarchy, without the rule of abstract value and endless accumulation; How would we feel in such a world? Would our distress be different? How would we look after each other? What kind of people would we be? www.facebook.com/events/ 340637936554986 /

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Bad Housing Makes Us Sick - by Homes for All

Sat 30 March 10:00 - 16:00, Unite the Union 33-37 Moreland Street London EC1V 8BB

There is a toxic link between bad housing and bad health. The cost is enormous - at least £ 1.4 billion a year for the NHS - but this is not the full account of all the ways our lives and communities are being damaged. This special conference will discuss what we can do to stop bad housing making us sick. Keynote speakers will include Dawn Foster (Guardian columnist), Dr Jackie Turner (Doctors in Unite) and Eilleen Short (Homes for All). The event is being supported by the Unite union and Generation Rent. Workshops will focus on the issues facing private renters and the homeless, Universal Credit, housing for people with disabilities and the mental trauma of demolition and displacement www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bad- housing-makes-us-sick-tickets - 57316748939

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Healing, Self-Healing and Spirit Release

Saturday 30 March, Glasshouse Arts Center, Wollaston Road, Amblecote, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 4HF

Fee: £ 35: 00 (£ 25: 00 concessions). Places are limited - please book by email or call Helen - helenfordhealing@yahoo.co.uk 07954 412973

Online booking is also available via www.brownpapertickets.com/ event / 4089342

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Compassionate Mental Health - Safe Spaces for Suffering & Joy

Mon 1 April, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm, Kingsley Hall, Bromley-by-Bow, London E3 3HJ

Changing the script around mental health, challenging stigma and raising expectations. Speakers and facilitators include: Will Hall, Dr Joseph H. Berke, Akiko Hart and core Compassionate mental health team members, Malcolm Stern, Andy Bradley and Brigid Bowen compassionatementalhealth.co.uk

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Social Death - the impact of austerity and poverty

Wed, 1 May, 6-8pm, Portcullis House, Attlee Suite, 1 Parliament St, Westminster, London SW1A 2JR

The purpose of this event is to place on record well sourced and tragic. Aim of austerity and poverty.

Homeless deaths on the streets in freezing weather, suicide under pressure of mounting debts & low / no income, infant deaths rising of the babies of poor mothers are reasons why we convene this seminar to get the facts about current austerity & poverty collated on record www .eventbrite.com / e / social- death-the-impact-of-austerity- and-poverty-tickets- 56029267046

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Mysticism, Mental Health and Spirituality

Tue, 7 May 14: 00-16: 30pm, St. Aloysius Church 20 Phoenix Road Kings Cross London NW1 1TA

Dr. Rowan Williams will present on the above theme. Event organized on behalf of The National Spirituality and Mental Health Forum www.spiritualitymentalhealth. org.uk

Send email inquiries to: brian.bingham @ spiritualitymentalhealth.org. uk

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Petitions & Consultations:

-Questionnaire on "the rights of older persons with disabilities" - Call for submissions

Submissions should be sent by e-mail to the address sr.disability@ohchr.org no later than 15 April 2019 .

Concise responses are encouraged, including of relevant attachments where available bit.ly/2EAaCkP

-Stop Capita PLC bidding on public sector work & review all current contracts

petition.parliament. uk / petitions / 235165

-Phase out current mental healthcare model and implement the Open Dialogue model

petition.parliament.uk/ quesitions / 230763

-Involuntary/Assisted Outpatient Treatment Survey

www.madinamerica.com/involuntary-outpatient-survey

-QualityRights - Good practice community based mental health

extranet.who.int/dataform/237749?lang=en

(chance to recommend Open Dialogue and natural remedies perhaps?)

- Documentary on MHA detention

A radio journalist based at City University is making a documentary about the Mental Health Act. Keen to interview people who have previously been sectioned, had difficulties during the tribunal process or they felt sectioning was used inappropriately. Interviews can be done under a pseudonym if necessary. It will be recorded in late March/early April. Please email katherine.mcginn@city.ac.uk if you can help.

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F.E.E.L. - Friends of East End Loonies

FEEL meets the third Monday of each month 6.30 - 8.30 pm
@ LARC 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London E1 1ES

twitter.com/EastEndLoonies

www.facebook.com/feel.campaign

Friday, 15 February 2019

Psychiatry: An Abuse Of Human Rights?

F.E.E.L. - Friends of East End Loonies are hosting an event about the recent Mental Health Act review presented in December 2018 and its disregards to the United Nations' recommendations on the CRPD (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities).

Friday 22 March 2019, 7-9 pm
Doors open at 6:30 pm for refreshments

Kingsley Hall Community Centre
1 Powis Road, London E3 3HJ

"Psychiatry: An Abuse Of Human Rights?"

Akiko Hart (Chair of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis UK - ISPS UK; English Hearing Voices Network; HV Project Manager, Mind in Camden) www.akikohart.com 'The Alternative Review'

Dorothy Gould (Survivor Consultant, Researcher and Trainer)

'The fit between the rights of people with lived experience and the recommendations in the final Mental Health Act Review report'

Liz Brosnan (Survivor Researcher, member of SURE - Service User Research Enterprise, and EURIKHA) www.researchgate.net/profile/Liz_Brosnan

'The Irish Mental Health Act Review: What happened and whose views got heard?'

The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A

No entrance fee but there will be a collection to cover costs

The Mental Health Act review

The Mental Health Act review was published on 6thDecember 2018. Its aim was to look at how legislation around the Mental Health Act 1983 is used and makes recommendations to government. It was commissioned bythe Tory Government in response to increasing numbers of people being detained under the Act, including disproportionate numbers of black, Asian & ethnic minority people (See bit.ly/2D2Gqw8)

United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

This Convention is an International legal agreement adopted by the United Nations in 2007 to change attitudes and approaches to persons with disabilities. It is intended to protect the human rights of persons with disabilities,looking at areas where their rights have been violated.The convention covers a wide range of areas including health, employment, personal security & independent living. The UK signed the treaty in 2009. (bit.ly/2JZyVIX)

Wednesday, 6 February 2019

February Newsletter

Dear Friends,

We hope you are managing well during these cold weeks.

With Imbolc just gone and the Chinese New Year just started might these be propitious times for positive changes and new beginnings.

January has been an unpredictable month, with several events being canceled or postponed.

Our forthcoming event at Kingsley Hall "Psychiatry: An Abuse Of Human Rights?" has now been re-scheduled to Friday 22nd March 7-9pm. A leaflet that can be printed and circulated will be available soon. Copies will be available at our monthly meeting at LARC on Monday 18th Feb.

In the main time please check out a few notifications to follow and the usual event listing at the bottom of the page. Here a moving post about the power of Love, from Dr Breggin, which deserves the utmost respect for his inspiring work in his whole career:
How Love Can Reformat Our Lives www.madinamerica.com/2019/01/love-reformats-lives
Might your heart always be full of Love to guide you in everyday steps!

- A "Global history of antipsychiatry and mad liberation movements" project by Matthew Smith with a German colleague: " We are particularly interested in associations and archives that have emerged outside of the Anglo-American world." If interested, please contact m.smith@strath.ac.uk; W: www.strath.ac.uk/staff/smithmatthewdr

- Our friend Keira Pratt-Boyden information & invite to take part to her research in ‘Mental health activism’:

Dear friends,
First of all, happy new year!
Some of you will have met me and will know that I moved to London in August to pursue a PhD in ‘mental health activism’. I have spent a few months attending different groups and learning about different approaches in London. This email is to explain what I hope to do in the upcoming months and to ask for your permission to be involved 😊

Some of the things I’m interested in for my research are:
-          How people understand ‘mental health’
-          How people support and care for each other outside of services
-          How people resist or try to improve services
-          Whether people engage in alternative treatments/healing methods and how useful they
find them to be.

However, I don’t have any predetermined questions or answers and I am interested in hearing all your thoughts and opinions, and this will also guide my research.
The main research method I use is ‘participant observation’, and this means that getting to know people and observing everyday life is important. The way participant observation works is that I hope to be as involved with various groups and activities as much as I can be, so I can learn from your everyday experiences and perspectives, which also means helping out in various ways I can. Getting people’s consent is also very important to me and to the code of ethics set by my University. With people’s permission, I will take notes from time to time and might also ask to audio record meetings for my own use. I will not quote people directly if they ask me not to. All of my notes will be anonymised (so individuals can’t be identified) and I will only name organisations, groups and locations if given your permission to do so.

Reciprocity is an important part of my research, which means I’d like my research to be as useful to people as possible. Some suggestions are that I give a talk at the end of my research feeding back to the groups I have been working with so that people can reflect on lessons learnt and ‘best practices’ throughout the year (I have until September). Another suggestion is that I write up my main findings in a leaflet to circulate to everyone involved in the research.
I’m open to questions about my research and will try to answer as best I can! Please feel free to email me at k.pratt.boyden@gmail.com or alternatively we can meet face to face 😊

I’d like to thank everyone who has already given their time to talk to me about this important topic. I hope that my findings will work towards advancements in mental health activism and make the work that people do, the support they give each other and the cause more visible.

- Another FEEL esteemed friend, Dr Bob Johnson, latest handout:

HAND-OUT for the DISPUK annual psychiatry seminar, 8th March 2019
how psychiatry cripples doctors
speechless terror
Without symptoms, doctors flounder. If you refuse to tell me about your chest pains, how can you expect me to diagnose your heart disease? Doctors need symptoms the same way bakers need flour. No flour, no bread. No clinical data, no medical care. This clinical predicament happens regularly enough – they’re called “incubation periods” – the disease is impending, but there’s no clinical evidence to diagnose it, yet. Take chest pain caused by pre-shingles, as happened to me – it’s “preherpetic pain” – until the classic spots arrive, you're working in the dark. It cannot be otherwise. Medical thinking cannot even begin, until recognisable symptoms develop – after that, it’s obvious, but never before. So in mental illhealth, when the bit that does the telling, is
on the blink, relevant symptoms are quite simply unavailable, so you can kiss goodbye to successful mental healthcare – doctors are stymied. Doctors are crippled by the very nature of the disease they are being asked to diagnose. We all know that a broken arm means you cannot WRITE. But how many know that a broken mind means you cannot TELL?

the irrefutable brainscan evidence
What’s the evidence? First check out the BRAINSCANS. These days much is made of scientific neurological advance – so put someone (anyone) in a brainscan machine, play them an audio tape of their trauma, the gun shot, the car crash, whatever it was that had traumatised them – and their speech centre and their frontal lobes go off line, they can neither speak nor think about the worst thing that has ever happened to them.

This evidence, unique in all psychiatry, is solid, scientific, REPRODUCIBLE, clinical data – it’s been available since the early 1990s – 25 years – what impact has it had? There are lots of things you can pretend in psychiatry – psychobabble occurs as much, if not more, in “biochemical psychiatry” as elsewhere. But when objective, scientific, reproducible, neuroscan evidence does eventually arrive, who are you to refute it? Bessel van der Kolk called it speechless terror in 1995 – without a workable speech centre, no trauma is available for medical help – doctors are seriously disabled.

clinical evidence
Sufferers can chatter on about everything else, but not the “Base Trauma” – the very essence of mental illhealth. The mind is for sorting things out, thinking things through, talking about solutions – so if none of this works any longer – what are you to do? Only a doctor with insight is going to tease out what you CANNOT tell her/him directly. I show a 1991 video of a prisoner – he didn’t start by saying he couldn’t tell his mother he was an adult. He didn’t know that this was THE problem, so how could he know where to start? The crunch is that when he DOES tell her, his anger, violence, and mental pain evaporates – fabulous. But DSM-psychiatrists see no more reason to pay attention to videod clinical data, than they do to solid scientific brainscan data (or to published, peer reviewed academic papers, see below). Do they really know better?

doctors’ delusions
A friend of mine, a university law lecturer, was asking a consultant psychiatrist why he prescribes four times the accepted maximum drug dosage. The reply stunned him. “Because I’m a consultant psychiatrist – you’re not”. My friend decided not to talk to psychiatrists again – would you? The first pages of Psychological Medicine in 2014 show that by NOT prescribing mis-named “anti-psychotic” drugs, for 20 years, you gain a ninefold REDUCTION of psychotic symptoms. That was published 5 years ago. Where’s the global drug reduction campaign? If doctors continue to ignore such solid scientific evidence in this most prestigious academic journal, what prevents their work (and their reasoning) from being dismissed as mere superstition or witchcraft? If Plan A doesn’t work – just keep repeating Plan A, embroidered with psychobabble, like the UK Prime Minister does with Brexit, embellished there with fake news.

the way forward
We humans use our minds to tell you what’s wrong. However, when trauma disables our speech centres – as brainscans universally prove it does – this channel is blocked, and an alternative clinical approach becomes mandatory. My clinical work indicates that a Base Trauma sits in the centre of the mental furniture, leaking toxins – but, because it can be neither visualised nor talked about, it self-perpetuates. Happily, as the video data shows, by DISEMPOWERING this speechless terror, and its blockage, you can blossom. You (and they) don’t have to believe this – but until you do, it’ll bite you.

Dr Bob Johnson Www.DrBobJohnson.org Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Consultant Psychiatrist, (retired) P O Box 49, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, PO38 9AA UK
Author – “how Verbal Physiotherapy works” at www.smashwords.com/books/view/892956

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2019 LGBT History Month

LGBT History Month takes place every February.

This year theme is Peace, Activism and Reconciliation lgbthistorymonth.org.uk

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DeafPlus 4th Annual Deaf Carers Conference - "Dementia"

Wed 6th February, 10am - 12pm, Idea Store Whitechapel, 321 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1BU.

Speakers from Alzheimer's Society and Tower Hamlets Carers Centre as well as real life stories of being a carer to someone with Dementia being shared.

Refreshments will be provided. To register, please contact either Milena or Aiysha: milena.blaszczyk@deafplus.org or aiysha.begum@deafplus.org

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Crack-up Comedy Cabaret

Wednesday, 6 February, from 19:30 to 22:30, The Glory 281 Kingsland Road E2 8AS London

A brand new night of comedy and cabaret in aid of local Hackney mental health charity Core Arts www.corearts.co.uk

Brought to you by two queer femme comedienne's Charlie George* and Jennie Falconer.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crack-up-comedy-cabaret-tickets-54134052408

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MHRN Movie Night

Thu 7 Feb, 7-10pm,

The Field, 385 Queen's Road,

New Cross, SE14 5HD

Showing the film 'This Time It's Personal'

followed by a debate with Robert Stearn.

FB: www.facebook.com/MHResist/

W: www.mentalhealthresistance.org

E: hello@mentalhealthresistance.org

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Grounded Ecotherapy health and well-being volunteering

Every Friday 10:30am - 3:30pm Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, The Soanes Centre, Southern Grove, E3 4PX

Join the Grounded weekly volunteering day to support the work of The Friends in the Cemetery Park. The wildlife and plant life of the park needs constant care and every Friday volunteers are welcome to drop in for all or part of the day, in this Nature Reserve. Tea, coffee, tools and equipment are supplied. Please wear clothes which you don't mind getting dirty, sturdy shoes, and bring a packed lunch. For info/contact details here groundedproject.org

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The Offical Mandela Exhibition ( £8-15)

From Friday 8th February, 26 Leake Street, Waterloo SE1 7NN, London

mandelaexhibition.com

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Central London Bipolar UK Support Group

Friday 8th Feb 6:30 - 7:45 pm, St Gabriel's Church Hall, Glasgow Terrace, Churchill Gardens, Pimlico, SW1V 3AA

Dr Rebecca Kelly www.national.slam.nhs.uk/about-us/our-experts/dr-rebecca-kelly will be joining the meeting to talk for twenty minutes or-so about the role of psychology in the maintenance and treatment of bipolar disorders with around 40 minutes for a Q&A session. No charge, donations welcome. For more info centrallondon@bipolarukgroups.org

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Healing Money Wounds - Online PeoplesHub Workshop

Mon 11 Feb, 11 pm (90 min long). Pay what you can. Sign up here bit.ly/2BdbTfx

Poverty is trauma, and the impact of chronic lack or looming debt can trigger depression, anxiety and anger.

We are bombarded by messages about money, prosperity, wealth and value while we spend our days tending to the wounds of unbridled capitalism.

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Made of Money

Tue 12th Feb 6-8pm, Islington Town Hall, Upper St, N1 2UD

Talk for Health's February Special will be hosted by Denise Brewster and Priscilla Joseph from Made of Money - a financial wellbeing course that recognises the many aspects of money.

Register here. For more information, or if you can't register on Eventbrite, contact info@talkforhealth.co.uk or 07826148461

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Survivors' Poetry at the Poetry Cafe

Thurs Feb 14, 7:30-10:30pm, arrive 7.00pm to sign up for floorspots (1.50 floorspots / 2.50 concessions / 3.50 the full ticket)

The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton St, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX

An evening of Poetry and song. MC Dave Russell.

Featuring guest 'seasoned' poet and erstwhile member of the Survivors' tribe Jessica Lawrence will give a wry look at relationships and love - failed or otherwise! - on Valentines Day.

Facebook: Survivor's Poetry Gigs.

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'Social/Spiritual gathering'

Friday 22nd February, Brayford Square Community Hall, E1

Interested in Spirituality? You are invited to join for an hour of inspired writings and discussion from 5-6pm. After 6, those that want to can come down to the Peacock pub (200 yards down Aylward St.) for further chat and play their WONDERFUL FREE juke box. Those that want to can visit the terrific George Tavern (bottom of Jubilee St) afterwards, easy walking distance, for late night live music. For more info contact Donald Greig Prentice on donprentice@hotmail.com Website: sites.google.com/site/internationalfpc

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The Anatomy of Melancholy Exhibition

16 January - 27 April, Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3BX

museumofthemind.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition-info/the-anatomy-of-melancholy

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Social Care Charging Survey

Following on from the Independent Living Strategy Group "A tax on the need for support?" report into charging for social care we’d like to get more information on charging and how it is affecting people. Please could people fill in details in the form below. Could you also email us at mail@dpac.uk.net if you’d be willing to speak to the journalist Frances Ryan about charging and it’s impact on your lives and support. dpac.uk.net/2019/01/please-help-our-research-on-social-care

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International Women's Strike on 8 March 2019.

THE FESTIVAL OF REST & RESISTANCE

Showcasing the very best of the UK's disability arts scene.

4-16 Mar, Battersea Arts Centre Lavender Hill London SW11 5TN

www.bac.org.uk/content/45358/whats_on/whats_on/shows/the_festival_of_rest__resistance

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Mental Capacity Action Day

Friday 15 March, Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0RN.

If you'd like to attend, please get in touch with Maya Sooben, Mental Capacity Policy Department, Ministry of Justice. Tel - 0203 334 3127, Email - NMCF1@justice.gov.uk

www.scie.org.uk/mca/directory/forum

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Compassionate Mental Health - Safe Spaces for Suffering & Joy

Mon 1 April, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm, Kingsley Hall, Bromley-by-Bow, London E3 3HJ

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International #Emerging Proud Day 2019 launch event

Sunday 12 May LIVE online event emergingproud.com/events

Reframing Mental distress as a transformation process

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How To Be Human

Ruby Wax National Live Tour

4 June - 15 June 2019, Leicester Square Theatre, London