We are pleased to announce the conference
Searching for a Rose Garden. Fostering Real Alternatives to Psychiatry
on
2nd and 3rd September, 2011 in Berlin.This conference is the highlight of the event series „‟Survivor Control: The Rights and Self-help Opportunities of People with Psychiatric Experience" organized by the Berlin
Association for Protection against Psychiatric Violence this year.Searching for a Rose Garden
will introduce and explore alternatives to psychiatry that build upon survivors‟ knowledge. These are approaches developed in close collaboration with people who have direct experience of extreme crisis and receiving psychiatric treatment. They are based on survivors‟ own understandings of madness and distress. The conference topics will also include suicidality and self-harm which can challenge alternative practices and are often handed over to psychiatry.Experiential knowledge proves to be a unique and invaluable source in creating radically different social responses and building up real alternatives to psychiatry. Bringing together world leaders in the field, this conference will be an important chance to reflect in depth on these innovative approaches: their origins and potential, the prerequisites for their development and the difficulties they face. We will contemplate and discuss a way forward together. The conference will focus on survivor-controlled practices including research as well as working partnerships with professionals. The two days will both divide into plenary sessions with keynote speeches as well as smaller working groups.
This conference is a must for anybody working toward different values in mental health.
Searching for a Rose Garden will bring together radical thinkers, long term political activists, authors and experts pioneering unique alternative concepts from Germany.Venue
: Tagungshaus Alte Feuerwache, Axel-Springer-Straße 40-41, 10969 Berlin.Dates
: Friday 2nd September from 10 am to 6 pmSaturday 3
rd September from 10 am to 4 pm.Speakers
Conference languages:
English and German (simultaneous translation provided)
Conference fee: 100 € (reduced rate 50 €, for unemployed free of charge).
A detailed conference programme will be available soon at www.weglaufhaus.de
If you wish to attend, please register by filling in this form
and sending it to [log in to unmask] As the number of places is limited early registration is strongly recommended.
We are very much looking forward to seeing you at this unique event in Berlin!
Please note that the pre-conference event for service users/survivors only will be held on
1
st September from 10 am to 5 pm. This event will be in German language with limited possibilities of translation.Venue: Der PARITÄTISCHE, Brandenburgische Str. 80 in 10713 Berlin