Refocus on Recovery 2012

Masterclass & International Conference

5-7 March 2012
The Congress Centre
23-28 Great Russell Street
London
WC1B 3LS

Organised by: Section for Recovery (Institute of Psychiatry) and Rethink Mental Illness

This three-day event involves Masterclasses and an international Conference.

Seven Masterclasses (9am until 12 noon on 5 March 2012) are being run:

1. Working as a recovery-oriented professional

2. Organisational change and Recovery (ImROC)

3. Improving well-being

4. Developing recovery values in the workforce

5. Using lived experience as a trainer

6. Working as a peer worker

7. Fostering social activism

More details about the Masterclasses are available here.

The international conference (1pm 5 March until 2pm 7 March) will involve conceptual, methodological and empirical papers on the four conference themes:

Theme 1: Social rights and activism

How can an inclusive society and communities be fostered? What empowers people who experience mental illness? Do political and social activism increase citizenship? Do ideas of recovery, well-being and social inclusion help or hinder citizenship?

Theme 2: Peer-support: lived experience and role models

How can the expertise of lived experience inform mental health services to fully support recovery? Why are role models important to recovery? Which effective models of peer-support are being developed? How do services change when lived experience is heard and acted on?

Theme 3: Recovery and well-being

Does the term ‘recovery’ accurately describe what matters to people experiencing mental illness? How can people experiencing mental illness increase their well-being? What is the role of self-management? Can the experience of mental illness be an asset? How do mental health services increase, or reduce, well-being?

Theme 4: Mental health services and recovery: implementing change

What can mental health services do to support recovery? What professional values and service user expectations need to change? What is involved in organisational transformation towards a focus on recovery, well-being and social inclusion? Does the personalisation agenda make a difference?