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A safe space with safe people to get support from others, ideas on how to navigate for support, and resources, knowledge and strategies to manage.
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To support our peers, prioritize conversations over stories. Here's why events and associations should prioritize interaction.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/associations-2/2025/06/power-peer-conversation/

#associations #PeerSupport #conferences #MeetingDesign

PTSD Support: A Compassionate Space to Share and Feel Heard. When life feels heavy, confusing, or isolating, it can help to have a calm and respectful space to share and be heard. This is a gentle place for conversations and reflection, grounded in presence, lived experience, and compassion. You are welcome exactly as you are.
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#PTSD #Recovery #TraumaSupport #Compassion #FeelHeard #PeerSupport #InnerHealing #community
#mentalhealth

To support our peers, prioritize conversations over stories. Here's why events and associations should prioritize interaction.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/associations-2/2025/06/power-peer-conversation

#associations #PeerSupport #conferences #MeetingDesign

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Available for pre order:

A Mad Turn
Edited by Phil Smith

Written by Mad scholars, A Mad Turn explores the field of Mad Studies in theory and practice, and what Mad Studies can bring to academia and to other social institutions. What does it mean to “do” Mad Studies? What are the field’s intersections with disability justice, Mad justice, and gender and queer studies? This book is a bold step toward the Mad Studies yet-to-come—a Mad Studies that Mad people will build, twisting and turning and singing and dancing, a new realm of thinking-being-doing-knowing. Step into it with us.

https://autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/a-mad-turn

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#Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice #AltMentalHealth #instutionalization #PeerSupport #asylum

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My blog has finally joined the Fediverse -- so you can get updates directly here!

You can follow my blog at @calvinprowse.ca (or visit my site directly on the web at http://www.calvinprowse.ca)

I don't post there very often, but when I do, it's normally about some of the following: #MentalHealth #PeerSupport #Research #FuturesStudies #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #Workshop #Dreaming #Hope #Futurity #Poetry

My blog has finally joined the Fediverse -- so you can get updates directly here!

You can follow my blog at @calvinprowse.ca (or visit my site directly on the web at http://www.calvinprowse.ca)

I don't post there very often, but when I do, it's normally about some of the following: #MentalHealth #PeerSupport #Research #FuturesStudies #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #Workshop #Dreaming #Hope #Futurity #Poetry

My blog has finally joined the Fediverse -- so you can get updates directly here!

You can follow my blog at @calvinprowse.ca (or visit my site directly on the web at http://www.calvinprowse.ca)

I don't post there very often, but when I do, it's normally about some of the following: #MentalHealth #PeerSupport #Research #FuturesStudies #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #Workshop #Dreaming #Hope #Futurity #Poetry

My blog has finally joined the Fediverse -- so you can get updates directly here!

You can follow my blog at @calvinprowse.ca (or visit my site directly on the web at http://www.calvinprowse.ca)

I don't post there very often, but when I do, it's normally about some of the following: #MentalHealth #PeerSupport #Research #FuturesStudies #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #Workshop #Dreaming #Hope #Futurity #Poetry

In February, I facilitated a workshop mapping the futures of #MentalHealth and #Addictions #PeerSupport.

We discussed:
1) visions of the future we are being pulled towards
2) trends of the present pushing us toward particular futures
3) barriers to our preferred futures
4) emerging issues that could dramatically shape the future of peer support

A summary of our discussion is available on the PeerWorks blog:

https://www.peerworks.ca/resources/blog/mapping-peer-support-futures

#FuturesStudies #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #Madodon

In February, I facilitated a workshop mapping the futures of #MentalHealth and #Addictions #PeerSupport.

We discussed:
1) visions of the future we are being pulled towards
2) trends of the present pushing us toward particular futures
3) barriers to our preferred futures
4) emerging issues that could dramatically shape the future of peer support

A summary of our discussion is available on the PeerWorks blog:

https://www.peerworks.ca/resources/blog/mapping-peer-support-futures

#FuturesStudies #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #Madodon

In February, I facilitated a workshop mapping the futures of #MentalHealth and #Addictions #PeerSupport.

We discussed:
1) visions of the future we are being pulled towards
2) trends of the present pushing us toward particular futures
3) barriers to our preferred futures
4) emerging issues that could dramatically shape the future of peer support

A summary of our discussion is available on the PeerWorks blog:

https://www.peerworks.ca/resources/blog/mapping-peer-support-futures

#FuturesStudies #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #Madodon

I’m interested in memoirs, blogs etcetera telling stories of resilience, surviving psychiatry, trauma (developmental). Please share them if you know any.
#MadLiterature

Lisa Wallace on why she left psychiatric care and why she may return one day

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/guest-post-a-psychiatric-survivor?r=c50ah&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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#PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
#DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
#CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
#Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
#Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice #AltMentalHealth #instutionalization #PeerSupport #asylum

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The Soteria model relies on personal relationships, interactive activities, and minimal use of psychiatric medication within a comfortable “living community” as opposed to a conventional psychiatric setting.

#MadLiterature
How Does the Soteria House Heal?
The alternative treatment model of Soteria helps individuals suffering from schizophrenia without relying on medication or coercion.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/09/soteria-house-heal/

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#MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad

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#PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
#DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
#CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
#Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
#Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice #AltMentalHealth #instutionalization #PeerSupport #asylum
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my major research paper, Dreaming Peer Support Futures, is now available online!

drawing on frameworks of #futurity, #utopia, and #dream(ing), as well as practices of #diffraction and #zine making methods, my research explores the question: “what could a lens of futurity offer the discipline of consumer/survivor #PeerSupport?”

https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42022

#Madodon #MadStudies #FuturesStudies #Research

my major research paper, Dreaming Peer Support Futures, is now available online!

drawing on frameworks of #futurity, #utopia, and #dream(ing), as well as practices of #diffraction and #zine making methods, my research explores the question: “what could a lens of futurity offer the discipline of consumer/survivor #PeerSupport?”

https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42022

#Madodon #MadStudies #FuturesStudies #Research

A month ago, I quietly launched my #zine shop -- thought it was about time that I shared it here!

https://ko-fi.com/calvinprocyon/shop

my zines explore themes of #MentalHealth / #madness , #PeerSupport #utopia , #dreaming , #futurity , and #community , through the lens of #MadStudies , #DisabilityStudies , and #FuturesStudies .

Over the next while I'll share a little bit about some of my zines I currently have for sale in this thread.

Boosts appreciated!

A month ago, I quietly launched my #zine shop -- thought it was about time that I shared it here!

https://ko-fi.com/calvinprocyon/shop

my zines explore themes of #MentalHealth / #madness , #PeerSupport #utopia , #dreaming , #futurity , and #community , through the lens of #MadStudies , #DisabilityStudies , and #FuturesStudies .

Over the next while I'll share a little bit about some of my zines I currently have for sale in this thread.

Boosts appreciated!

A month ago, I quietly launched my #zine shop -- thought it was about time that I shared it here!

https://ko-fi.com/calvinprocyon/shop

my zines explore themes of #MentalHealth / #madness , #PeerSupport #utopia , #dreaming , #futurity , and #community , through the lens of #MadStudies , #DisabilityStudies , and #FuturesStudies .

Over the next while I'll share a little bit about some of my zines I currently have for sale in this thread.

Boosts appreciated!

Philosophy and Madness a combination that makes me smile!!!
#MadLiterature
Too mad to be true II - The promises and perils of the first-person perspective

https://www.psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl/too-mad-to-be-true-ii

The second Too Mad To Be True conference that was dedicated to exploring the various links between philosophy and madness. The atmosphere was vibrant and it initiated new ways of thinking and communicating around issues of madness and philosophy. The central theme was both relevant to philosophical and mad theories and practices: ' The promises and perils of the first-person perspective'. The conference was hybrid: both in person, in Ghent, Belgium, as well as online. 

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#CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
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#Stories #isolation

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Sanism is normalized in relationships with institutions.
It’s not talked about.
It’s woven tightly into unquestioned assumptions (common sense knowledge)
It’s a tool for power and control.

#MadLiterature
The Wildflower Alliance

Grassroots Peer Support, Advocacy, and Training organization with a focus on harm reduction and human rights.
https://wildfloweralliance.org/

Thank you @leftvu 😍

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#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
#DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
#CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
#Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
#Stories #isolation

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@[email protected]
@disability
@[email protected]
@disabilityhistory
@neurodivergence