Independent Advocacy as education and innovation. At this conference learn directly from people themselves about their mental health experiences.
Date: Thursday 8th May
Time: 9am registration for 9.30am start, to 4pm
Place: Norton Park Conference Centre, 57 Albion Road, Edinburgh, EH7 5QY
How to register: Sign up on Eventbrite or contact catherine@capsadvocacy.org or 07971 951 502
A chance to hear directly from people themselves about their mental health experiences. And how they have been treated in the mental health system. The conference will celebrate and champion the voices of lived experience. It will explore the power of advocacy and activism to unite people and co-design better services
We welcome everyone, whether you’re a funder, third sector or health and social care professional, or you’ve experienced mental health issues yourself, or you’re just curious to find out more about mental health experiences.
- For policy makers it is a unique opportunity to involve people with lived experience of mental health issues. You’ll have the chance to gather insights from the people who have actually experienced services.
- For third sector or health and social care professionals it’s a day of learning first-hand what can’t be taught in textbooks; workshops will explore what it feels like to experience different conditions.
- And for people with experience of mental health issues it’s a day of solidarity and community building.
What’s included
People with mental health issues will deliver the day in a series of collective advocacy workshops covering a range of mental health conditions; a particularly impactful way for people with mental health issues to bring about change and challenge stigma. There will also be workshops on arts as advocacy and a community history project called Oor Mad History. There’ll be panel discussions, a presentation on groundbreaking new research into men and eating disorders and a chance to hear about what ‘involvement’ means to people with mental health issues, at the Lothian Voices listening stations. Lunch is provided.
