Refocus on Recovery 2019 (3-5 September, Nottingham)
Five expert workshops (59 participants from 11 countries) and 289 conference participants from 28 countries.
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Feedback indicated 98% satisfaction with expert workshops and 90% satisfaction with the conference.
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Blogs about papers presented at the conference
Podcasts from keynote speakers at the conference
FILMS OF PRESENTATIONS:
Soumitra Pathare – Peer support in LMICs: underutilized resource
Mike Slade – Multiple perspectives on recovery
Alison Faulkner – The inconvenient complications of peer support in mental health
Joseph Leong Jern-Yi – Social inclusion in Singapore – from Asylum to co-production in the community
Michael Rowe – Citizenship and Mental Health
Pesach Lichtenberg – Soteria: the final frontier of deinstitutionalization
Refocus on Recovery 2017 (18-20 September, Nottingham)
Five expert workshops (104 participants) and 382 conference participants from 26 countries.
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Feedback indicated 92% satisfaction with expert workshops and 91% satisfaction with the conference.
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Twitter highlights on Storify from the 2017 conference here.
FILMS OF PRESENTATIONS:
Isabella Goldie
– Surviving or thriving: creating a movement for change
Mark Hopfenbeck
– Peer-supported open dialogue: On Recovering Difference
Mike Slade –
New frontiers in recovery research
Steve Gillard –
Peer support in mental health services: social intervention of “freedom to
be”?
Kwame McKenzie – Building societies that promote recovery
Refocus on Recovery 2014 (2-3 June, London)
403 attenders from 23 countries.
Feedback indicated 91% satisfaction with scientific content.
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FILMS OF PRESENTATIONS:
Alison Mohammed – welcome from Chief Executive, Rethink Mental Illness, UK
Terry Bowyer – The journey of recovery
Mike Slade – Researching recovery
Mary Leamy – The REFOCUS Study
Geoff Shepherd – Organisational transformation
Alessandro Svettini – Changing services in Italy
Jane McGregor – Recovery Colleges: Lessons Learned from an Educational Perspective
John Larsen – Crisis Houses: an alternative approach to recovery
Conference Debate: Recovery is now a meaningless term
Refocus on Recovery 2012 (5-7 March, London)
Seven
Masterclasses (181 participants) and 343 conference participants from 18
countries.
Feedback satisfaction ratings ranged from 82% to 96%.
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FILMS OF PRESENTATIONS:
Peter Beresford, Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Citizen Participation at Brunel University, UK, long term user of mental health services and Chair of Shaping Our Lives.
Tom Craig, Director of Research and Development at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
Paul Jenkins, Chief Executive, Rethink Mental Illness, UK.
Nic Marks, founder of Centre for Wellbeing at the New Economics Foundation (nef), UK.
Mary O’Hagan, former service user and Mental Health Commissioner, New Zealand.
Mark Ragins, Psychiatrist and Medical Director of MHA Village Integrated Service Agency in California, USA.
Paulette Ranaraja, carer, Volunteer Carer Supporter at West London Mental Health Trust and Co-leader of Rethink Mental Illness’ Carers Education Training Programme, UK.
Mike Slade, Professor of Health Services Research, Institute of Psychiatry (now the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience), King’s College London, UK.
Refocus on Recovery 2010 (20-22 September, London)
Eight Masterclasses (168 participants) and 509 conference
participants from 23 countries.
Feedback indicated overall satisfaction
ratings of 92% with Masterclasses and 88% with scientific content of the
conference.
FILMS OF PRESENTATIONS:
Simon Bradstreet, Director, Scottish Recovery Network.
Dr Lynne Friedli, Centre for Welfare Reform, Sheffield, UK.
Dr Lindsay Oades, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Conference debate: this house believes that mental health services need to fundamentally change if they are to support recovery.