Events

Creative Writing for Experiencers of "Psychosis" and Family Members

ISPS-US invites two remarkable authors to discuss storytelling as a form of healing and sense-making and as advocacy for better systems.

Join us for the official conference dinner, 7pm on Saturday October 28th.

Car-share for pre-conference tour 4pm on Thursday, October 26th.

A narrative-theoretical performance by Dr. Erin Soros on the importance of listening and ethical accompaniment in psychosis

Open Dialogue is a relational, community-based, response to mental health crisis and ongoing needs, first developed in Tornio, Finland in the 1990s. Interdisciplinary teams, including clinical and, more recently, peer workers engage individuals and their families and social networks from first contact in collaboration and dialogue. Initial data suggest that dialogic approaches maximize shared power and produce some of the best functional recovery outcomes in the world. These results have spurred efforts to expand research and develop these services internationally.

ISPS-US invites you to attend a panel presentation, featuring four eminent leaders from the U.S. and U.K. who will share their dialogic work, research, learnings, challenges and emerging best practices as inspired by Open Dialogue.

All are invited to the ISPS-US book club, reading The Zyprexa Papers by Jim Gottstein

All are invited to the ISPS-US book club, reading Grace Cho's Tastes Like War