PeerZone: Peer-led paradigm shift seminar

Facilitator biographies:Mary O'Haganhas been involved in mental health and related issues for 30 years. She was an initiator of the mental health service user movement in New Zealand in the late 1980s and ran an independent peer-run initiative. Mary was a Mental Health Commissioner in New Zealand from 2000 to 2007 where she led the Commission’s work on recovery. She has developed standards, reviewed and advised on the development of peer services in New Zealand, Australia, England, Canada and the Netherlands. Mary is the Director of PeerZone - growing the recovery capacity of individuals and organisations – and is the coordinator of PeerZone consultancy. In 2014 Mary published an award-winning memoir called ‘Madness Made Me’. She is Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.Flick Greyis a survivor of childhood trauma with an academic background in sociology, linguistics and madness studies, working as a consultant, supervisor, researcher, trainer and freelance peer supporter. Grounded in Intentional Peer Support and Open Dialogue (which she is currently studying in London), she works to foster spaces for listening deeply (including listening to madness, sensitivity and inner voices), and meaningful, systemic, human responses to people in emotional crisis.Lisa Archibaldhasextensive experience of managing peer services in various countries. She has been training and supervising peer workers for over 10 years first in Scotland and now New Zealand. Lisa travels internationally delivering training and facilitating workshops in projects that bring about social change such as IPS & PeerZone. Lisa was a UK Winston Churchill fellow in 2013 researching mental health discrimination in communities which led her to New Zealand where she has lived since 2014.Graeme Nisbetis a founding Director of both Think Thrive! CIC and the Peer Network Scotland CIC; and is a Trustee of Border Care Voice SCIO. He has delivered Peer Training in Scotland for 8 years, having previously worked as an artist since 1995. He embraced recovery ten years ago and became active in the recovery movement. After graduating in 2017 he has developed projects locally and nationally in collective advocacy in Scotland.

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PeerZone is delighted to be bringing the peer-led paradigm shift seminar to Edinburgh this September following on from the success of our Wellington 2017 event.
Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from successful international initiatives outside the dominant bio-medical paradigm. Presentations will celebrate alternative ways to support people with mental distress primarily from a lived experience perspective. Presenters will also share frameworks and resources developed and designed by people with lived experience of mental distress for people in distress and their supporters. 
This is an opportunity to showcase the experts by celebrating experience model with international models of best practice. 
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Guest speakers include 
Mary O'Hagan, PeerZone - New Zealand
Flick Grey, Intentional Peer Support and Open Dialogue - Australia
Lisa Archibald, PeerZone - New Zealand/ Scotland
Graeme Nisbet - Think Thrive/ Peer Network Scotland - Scotland
Lesley Smith - Drop the Disorder - Scotland
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