July – August – New courses in Kent & Leicester
I’m excited to be offering 3 courses in Canterbury (Kent) and Leicester over the next few months. The workshops are open to people with lived experience, family/friends, mental health workers and anyone interested in the topic area. If you know someone who might like to attend, please share this information with them. All courses are […]
Short Thought #1: “Don’t Confront. Don’t Collude?”
Short Thought #1: ‘Don’t Confront, Don’t Collude?’ from Rai Waddingham on Vimeo. This is the first in a series of free ‘shorts’. This one explores the mantra, woven deep into psychiatric practice – the belief that we should neither confront nor collude with beliefs that are seen as ‘delusional’. In the video, I share some […]
Dissociation & Psychosis in Young People
Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to Perth and Bunbury by Richmond Fellowship Western Australia. As well as working with the team over there to help support their bid to develop Hearing Voices Groups within Western Australian prisons, I was also happy to provide three workshops on subjects close to my heart. […]
Conference: Giving Psychosis A Voice 2
On Thursday 8th March, I was lucky enough to be speaking at a really interesting conference hosted by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Giving Psychosis A Voice 2 brought together a line up of speakers that I would pay to see, so to be asked to present alongside some of the great and the good […]
Me in Full House Magazine
Following on from the Sun article, Time To Change asked me to speak with Full House Magazine about my experiences. Again, I was a little dubious as these magazines have a reputation for sensationalisation and the ‘shock! horror!’ version of my story may do little to counter people’s stereotypes. Still, after speaking with the journalist […]
The Sun: Talking about the diagnosis of ‘schizophrenia’
In October 2010, as part of the Time To Change campaign, I was asked to share some of my story in The Sun newspaper. As you may imagine, given the tabloid paper’s usual take on diagnoses such as schizophrenia, I was initially a little sceptical. The whole thing was quite surreal. Whilst the result was […]
Who am I? – Victim Vs Survivor
“An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience” – James Baldwin Identity is a funny thing. Most of us go around feeling confident that we have one, but rarely feel the need to look inside and define ourselves absolutely. On a personal level, […]
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