Tonight The Grief Is With Me
Today I walk through the world with a deep and open wound. It’s a pain that leaves me feeling both full to breaking point with a deep sadness and curiously empty. It is as if my feelings are huddled in the corner, snuggled up with Schrödinger’s Cat – simultaneously there and not there. As I […]
A Dialogue Evening: What is this thing called ‘psychosis’
An evening of dialogue and discussion, exploring diverse perspectives on ‘psychosis’ on Wednesday 3 June at Mind in Camden.
Help: Share Your Experiences of Surviving Victimisation
I’m working with Chocolate Films to create a series of animation shorts aimed at people with either a learning disability and/or a mental health problem. Each one of these will feature a particular barrier that has emerged from our engagement with community groups and people with lived experience of these issues. I need your help to share ideas, experiences and quotes that people can relate to.
Event: Do We Need a Critical Psychotherapy?
On Saturday 13 June I’m speaking at a one day conference on ‘Critical Psychotherapy’. The event is open to anyone interested in psychotherapy and exploring these issues. I hope to see some of you there. The following information is taken from their advertisement, and is not in my own words. To find out more about […]
My 6 Month Sobriety Marathon for Charity
As anyone who knows me can tell you, I love beer. Settling down with a pint of real in my hand after a hard day’s work is one of life’s pleasures. Our mutual love of beer even motivated me and my husband to move from SE London to Faversham (home of Shepherd Neame and some seriously great […]
Critical Mental Health Nurses’ Network Launch
This article was written as a review for the Mental Health Nursing Journal for their June edition. Conferences often perplex me. Heavy with anticipation, I pour through the programme hungry for something that will challenge, excite or inspire me. On a good day, I find something truly delicious – stimulating ideas or possibilities that I hadn’t expected. On […]
Short Thought #2: Get to Know your Voices
Short Thought #2: Get To Know Your Voices from Rai Waddingham on Vimeo. This is the second in my video ‘shorts’. This one explores some of the different ways people can use their creativity to explore their voices and the often complex relationships they have with them. To me, this is a very important topic […]
Training in Brighton – Young People & Voices
I’m really happy to be heading down to Brighton on 12th August to run a new workshop – ‘Working Creatively with Young People who Hear Voices’. This is a workshop that I’ve been planning for a year or so now, bringing together some of the practice tips I’ve learnt through working with young people at the […]
Free Talk: Hearing Voices? (24 July, Faversham)
About This Event When? Thursday 24 July, 7.00 – 9.00pm Where? The Alexander Centre, 15-17 Preston Street, Faversham, ME13 8NY If you believe what’s written about people who hear voices in the media, you might think that people who hear voices are either violent or tragic victims of severe mental illness. As is often the […]
Greetings from Belgrade & Sarajevo
There’s no two ways about it – I love my life (and my work). Last week, accompanied by two colleagues – Dirk Corstens (Intervoice Chair and dutch psychiatrist) and Slobodanka Popovic (a systemic therapist working in the NHS) – I had the privilege to visit Belgrade and Sarajevo to stimulate the development a Hearing Voices Network […]
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