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Saturday, September 15. Registration closes Friday, September 7thSee over for information about our low cost and special priced registration fees

2. How we work and what we do! with Sharon Stocker

Sharon is a mental health practitioner who currently worksin the spirit o Peer Support. Sharon has experiencedmental health issues since her early childhood. Sharon is an

advocate or mental health reorm, working towards evolvingpositive culture in recovery orientated services in the com-munity mental health sector. In partnership with The Health& Community Services Workorce Council and the Qld

Alliance or Mental Health, Sharon as a Workorce Leader,has contributed to the content and design o a piece o workvalidated by current literature and research.

Discovering ourselves to facilitate the change we want to see in the world: People who want to belong and con-tribute towards changing culture in their communities as a

Person First, Student, Volunteer, Worker or Manager. Comeprepared to change the way you think about yoursel, yourworkplace, school, business, community, and home!

3. Expressing our authentic hearts withPenny Barringham

Mental health recovery is not something that is imposedor externally driven. It is ignited and uelled and energisedrom within us. In this seminar we will talk about theimportance o getting in touch with our authentic sel—that part o us that expresses uniquely our passions andwho we are—to assist us in our mental health.

Penny Barringham has been married to Neil or 32 yearsand they have two wonderul teenage boys. Penny lovesmeeting with women to discuss some o the deep anddicult issues o lie and experimenting with ideas thatmay help us to live well and nd joy in the midst o thechaos. Penny also enjoys acilitating training, being a parto a women’s book group, helping to run a youth group,reading and making altering attempts to get t. Pennyhelped to shape the work o A Place To Belong rom itsinception or many years.

4. Working for recovery in an era of corporatisation with Neil Barringham and Owen Strong

Many o us hope to support inclusive and welcomingcommunities where people are assisted and can grow.

However the organisations we are involved with maybecome so concerned with bureaucracy, ormalisation,compliance, policies and procedures and risk managementthat our attempts are stifed i not suocated! How can we

work in this context? In this workshop we will hear how

A Place To Belong has negotiated these orces and look atapproaches we can use in our various organisations tomanage these dilemmas.

Neil Barringham lives in inner-city Brisbane with his wieand two sons. He works with A Place To Belong. Neil

enjoys his rainorest backyard and cycling, and helps tobuild a bit o backyard neighbourliness by running a chookcooperative with a ew neighbours.

Owen has spent many years in Anglican parish ministryand was the coordinator or the Anglican Church’s hospitalchaplaincy team in Brisbane. Owen secured unding thatenabled the establishment o the Anglicare Mental HealthProject. This Action Research Project over time became A Place To Belong.

5. Recovery orientated services—it’s not what we do, but the way we do it that matters, with

Carolyn Perry, Tania Schmakeit and Irene Noller

This workshop will explore the importance o therapeutic

environments and respectul language in the way recoveryorientated services operate. Sta rom Footprints inBrisbane will discuss how two recovery orientated programshave worked to support people in their recovery journey andhow interactions that enhance sel-worth, hope and personalgrowth have infuenced individual lives.

6. Knowing me, knowing you with Patricia Shaw

Relationships can oten become problematic because omisunderstandings and breakdowns in communication. Wecan make a big dierence by becoming more aware o ourown and others’ communication abilities and listening skills.

Patricia has over 35 years experience in the elds oeducation and personal/proessional development. She is

an ex-primary school teacher and a qualied counsellor.Patricia has experienced her own journey o recovery rommental health issues and continues to assist others throughshort courses and workshops. www.patriciashaw.com.au

7. Selfcare and recovery with Claire Edwards

Participants will have the opportunity to create an imageabout selcare and recovery. A range o art materials will beavailable. No art skills are required.

Claire is an art therapist and AT educator (at UQ, Masters

o Mental Health), who is cu rrently studying social work atQUT. She has worked in mental health, drug and alcohol

recovery and child saety/parenting support roles or over30 years. Claire currently works at Silky Oaks Children’s

Haven in Manly as a Child, Group & Family Art Therapist.Claire has also recently introduced an adolescent GirlsSewing Group, Girls in Stitches, into the therapeuticprogram which is unded by Child Saety.

8. Nourishment (and massage) with Olivia Moy

Caring or our souls involves caring or our bodies. Stress,grie, trauma, and mental illness are all stored in our body,and over time the body begins to suer. The good newsis we can bring healing to our bodies! In this workshop wewill identiy common responses to stress and then discusssimple, low-cost methods o reducing tension.

Olivia Moy is a massage therapist, mother andcommunicator. Olivia ound through running regularly thatshe could bring stress relie and calm into her lie. Oliviawould like to use massage therapy to help those recoveringrom trauma and those who live with mental illness.

9. (&21) Emotional CPR with Jenny Speed This workshop is repeated in the aternoon.

eCPR teaches the simple skills o one person assisting andsupporting another. The skills taught in eCPR are designed

to be practised by people who have both had training andthose without counselling, assessment, or other clinicalskills. This training was developed by people who havelearned rom their own experience how to get through anemotional crisis and integrate the experience into a broader

understanding o themselves and others. The approach isbased on time-tested, basic common-sense principles odeep listening and interacting in a respectul manner.This is the very start o eCPR in Australia .

Jenny has been trained by Dr Daniel Fisher, an amazing

leader in the international consumer movement.

10. Mental health intervention and the role ofpolice with Mike Mitchell

Find out how Queensland Police prevent and respond tomental health crisis situations in collaboration with peoplewith mental health issues, amily members and services.

Senior Sergeant Michael Mitchell is a Queensland PoliceOcer. He has been an active ocer or nearly 35 years.He commenced with the Mental Health InterventionProject in July 2006 and has seen it develop across thestate o Queensland. He has coordinated the training o



More about Mike Mitchell: over 8000 police ocers andestablished over 50 police district coordinators. He wasawarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship in 2008 to studypolice services in our countries and how they prevent

and respond to mental health crisis situations throughworking collaboratively.

11. Policy changes in the Queensland mentalhealth sector with Richard Nelson

Richard Nelson is the CEO o Qld Alliance or MentalHealth. Join Richard to discuss key policy challengesacing the community managed mental health sector.Come away with potential strategies to consider in thisrapidly changing environment.

Afternoon workshops

12. Mental health and employment—exploringpossibilities with Luke Terry

Luke has been working with mental health and employ-ment projects and social enterprise or eight years in Australia and the UK. Prior to this Luke ran his ownbusinesses. Luke and a member rom the Toowoomba

clubhouse will talk about nding and keeping a job. They

will also speak about how Toowoomba Clubhouse through

partnerships with local businesses and disability employ-

ment service step people through a staged process to get

and keep real jobs.

13. The Vulcana Women’s Circus group with

Beth Incognito

Beth Incognito is a guitarist-singer-songwriter and circusperormer with a lived experience o mental illness andrecovery. She is currently working as a peer supportworker while she nishes her degree in psychology andneuroscience. Join her or a workshop exploring how thearts can be an ally on the journey o recovery, and haveun learning some basic ground-based circus skills.

14. The affects of drugs and alcohol on mentalhealth with George Patriki

This workshop is an introduction to the cycle o addiction,outlining key risks and consequences to substance abuseand actors that drive addictive behaviours.

George Patriki is committed to reaching out to peoplestruggling with addictive behaviours, particularly thosewith severe lie controlling problems due to childhoodtrauma. George works as a court advocate and counsel-lor providing community orums, seminars and recoverygroups or drug users. George has experienced the eects

o being dependent on drugs and is able to share hispersonal and clinical experience with drugs.

15. Strengthening family ‘connexions’ with

pAul montgomery

This will be an opportunity or constructive conversationsbetween younger people recovering rom mental healthdiculties, and parents/carers o younger peoplerecovering rom mental health challenges.

Note: It is not necessary that younger people and their parents/carers

will attend together, although this will be accommodated if it happens.

pAul will briefy share stories o his work with amilieswhose younger members have aced mental healthtroubles, and the workshop will ocus on:

• the issues challenging their amily relationships• the skills they are developing in resisting these

challenges and• the things they’d love to understand better about each

other’s experiences o these times.

pAul is a social worker and narrative practitioner who hasworked in various Brisbane settings over the past coupleo decades. He is co-director o Unique Outcomes, aprivate enterprise committed to socially just learningpartnerships. www.uniqueoutcomes.com.au

16. Release your stress and relax with Patricia Shaw

This workshop will help you to identiy stressors andunderlying causes o any stress in your lie. You will learn and

practise tools and strategies to help you release your stress,relax more eectively and take better care o yoursel.See no.6 or inormation about Patricia.

17. The usefulness of mindfulness in dealing withmental illness with Sandra Baker

Sandra Baker runs the outpatient group therapy program atSt Andrews Hospital in Toowoomba, oversees the inpatientpsychology services, and provides psychological input topatients across the hospital. She has acilitated in excesso 1000 group therapy sessions where the main ocus has

been to use Acceptance and Commitment therapy. Parto this approach is the use o mindulness practices as ithas now been clearly demonstrated that mindulness isvery helpul or people who suer rom anxiety, depres-sion, chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder and othermental health issues. She is a passionate advocate or

people suering rom mental illness. This workshopaims to provide participants with an introduction tomindulness as well as giving participants the opportunityto practise mindulness.

18. Hope and spirituality—making sense of mentalillness with Robert Bland See no.1 or inormation.

19. Sensory approaches to managing distress—anevidence based tool for recovery with Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson has worked or years to eliminate coercion

rom mental health services, through his workshops, writingand clinical practice. The talk will ocus on how our nervoussystem is set up to promote our own ability to regulate our

emotions and minimise distress we might eel. Through thescience o ‘sensory modulation’ we can select aspects romour environment that are known to either calm or arouseus. In our work with other people we can model how to usesensory approaches to manage distress. In doing this we

are putting legs on empathy, while helping people in distresstake control o their own lives.

20. Art and mental health with Christine Wall and

Damian le Goullon

Art has oten been considered to be therapeutic but is itreally? This workshop is led by two artists who will explorethe personal and social dimensions o art and mentalhealth. We will be chatting and working together with you

on some simple artistic activities. You do not need artisticskills or this workshop but you may develop some. Chris-tine Wall exhibits regularly in Brisbane and is a participantin a local community art project in West End. Damian leGoullon is a Visual Arts and Drama teacher. He worked oncommunity arts projects with homeless youth or a decade.He is currently the Coordinator o the Reading and Writinggroup at A Place To Belong.

21. Emotional CPR with Jenny SpeedSee workshop no.9 or inormation.

Saturday, September 15, 2012 Registration closes Friday, September 7th



Special funding

Due to the unding provided by the Mental Health Councilthrough the Australian Government Department o Hea lthand Ageing, subsidies are available or those people who

require mental health support, their carers and supporters.We are thereore able to oer a number o limitedsubsidies and discounts.

For those who are in need o assistance who live locally,you are welcome to request a discounted registration eeo $10 or the day.

For those who live rurally and out o town, limited undingis available or travel and accommodation, in addition tothe reduced registration ee.

Please contact Helene Hagen, Mon.-Thurs.,11am-4pm on

0452-077-921 or [email protected] or ur-

ther inormation about subsidized travel and accommodation.

Inclusion awards

As part o this year’s Recovery Day presentations will againbe made to people and/or organisations who have con-tributed signicantly to someone’s inclusion. These annual

awards are designed to highlight that inclusion can happenand that ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

More about the day

• Munch on yummy morning tea and a healthy lunch.• Meet others on a similar journey.• Relax with a ree hand, eet or shoulder massage.

Times, dates and contactDate: Saturday, 15th September, 2012

Time: 9.00am - 4.30pm

Registration, tea and coee rom 8.30am

Venue: St Aidan’s Anglican Girl’s School,11 Ruthven Street, Corinda, Brisbane, Qld 4075

Registration closes: Friday, 7th September

Please see the back panel or contact inormation.

PO Box 5873, West End 4101 | 07/ 3217-2522

www.aplacetobelong.org.au

A Place To Belong is a small agency that works toencourage a process o inclusion or people whoexperience mental health challenges. We do this bydeveloping and encouraging the capacity o thecommunity to welcome and include others.

A Place To Belong is administered by Anglicare.

For more inormation about Recovery Day, please contactKym Thomas at [email protected] orour registration sta on 07/ 3217-2522 [email protected]

Join us

Date: Saturday, 15th September, 2012

Time: 9am-4.30pm. Registration, tea and coee at 8.30am

Venue: St Aidan’s Anglican Girl’s School,

11 Ruthven Street, Corinda, Brisbane, Qld 4075

Registration closes: Friday, 7th September

This conerence is supported by unding rom the AustralianGovernment Department o Health and Ageing under theMental Health Conerence Funding Program, which ismanaged by the Mental Health Council o Australia.

We appreciate the support o the Department oCommunities who helped und this event.

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Fees: ____$60 (Proessionals, organizations, waged participants)

____$10* (Reduced ee or those people who require mental health

support, their carers, and supporters). *Also see over under ‘Special unds’or inormation on subsidies.Please make cheque or money orders payable to: A Place To Belong.

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Please post form to: A Place to Belong, PO Box 5873, West End 4101

This registration is your ofcial tax invoice, GST included.

Anglicare Southern Queensland ABN: 39 906 010 979

Morning workshops

1. (&18) Hope and spirituality—making sense o mental illness

2. How we work and what we do!

3. Expressing our authentic hearts

4. Working or recovery in an erao corporatisation

5. Recovery orientated services–it’s not what we do, but the waywe do it that matters

6. Knowing me, knowing you

7. Sel care and recovery

8. Nourishment (and massage)

9. (&21) Emotional CPR

10. Mental health intervention andthe role o police

11. Policy changes in theQueensland mental healthsector

Afternoon workshops

12. Mental health & employment—exploring possibilities

13. The Vulcana Women’s Circusgroup

14. The aects o drugs and alcoholon mental health

15. Strengthening amily ‘connexions’

16. Release your stress and relax

17. The useulness o mindulnessin dealing with mental illness

18. Hope and spirituality—makingsense o mental illness

19. Sensory approaches tomanaging distress—anevidence based tool orrecovery

20. Art and mental health

21. Emotional CPR

____________ ______________1st AM choice 2nd AM choice

____________ ______________1st PM choice 2nd PM choice

Please write the no. of your 1st & 2nd AM & PM preference.

Join us Saturday, September 15th.

Register by Friday, September 7th.

Registration questions? Please call our registration sta on07/ 3217-2522 or [email protected]

RegistrationRegistration closes Friday, September 7th

See about special funding and low registration fees

Mental HealthCouncil of Australia