Posted on August 24, 2014
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in Community, Depression, Healing Art, Mental health Care, Mental Illness, Storytelling, Suicide, suicide prevention, Video
I was invited to speak at the gorgeous Sisters For Sisters fundraising event about current news from the Australian Suicide Prevention sector, storytelling from recent conversations, fact-finding and progressive perspectives that have inspired me since the National Suicide Prevention Conference, Perth 2014. This particular episode, Brothers in Our Arms, was hosted to show support for men in […]
Posted on August 6, 2014
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in Community, Creative Arts, Depression, Mental health Care, mental health community service, Mental Illness, Self-Harm, Storytelling, Suicide, suicide prevention
I’ve got a new perspective on suicide. I nabbed it from the National Suicide Prevention Conference. I reckon you’ll like it too. So the reality is that for some people suicide becomes a solution. It becomes a ‘way out’, an escape and end to intolerable pain. It holds a kind of morbid promise when our dreams reduce to […]
Posted on May 19, 2014
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in Community, Mental health Care, Mental Illness, Relationships, Storytelling, Wellbeing
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama has a model of intimacy based on a willingness to open ourselves to many others, to family, friends and even strangers forming genuine deep bonds based on our common humanity. I doubt you need to be a Buddhist to understand this. In His Holiness’ book, ‘The Art of Happiness’, He […]
Posted on January 13, 2014
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in Creative Arts, Depression, Healing Art, Mental health Care, Psychiatry, Sacred Arts, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Video, Wellbeing
I entered a competition called Are You A Messenger? My compelling message was based on promoting more heart and soul in mental health care. This video was inspired by discovering that ketamine (a horse tranquilizer) has been claimed to revolutionise mental health care – an option I feel is unnecessary when we have so many […]
Posted on November 14, 2013
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in Creative Arts, Healing Art, Mental Illness, Spoken Word, Storytelling
When spoken word poet, Jessie Giles, announced that she was leaving Facebook, I hunted her down with a WHY? Here is a passionate poet who always has something of value to say. A beautiful young woman with the unique ability to show up society with the delicacy of a calligraphy pen, JG speaks candidly about […]
Posted on September 15, 2013
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in Community, Creative Arts, Festivals, Sacred Arts, Storytelling
I went to Burning Man Festival to launch my first book. Three days later, I burnt the book, along with a symbolic decade of hardship and psychological tumult. It’s that kind of festival. It calls forth the ‘meaningful’ within a chaotic circus of post-modern mayhem. Black Rock City is the week-long social experiment that pools […]
Posted on May 22, 2013
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in Creative Arts, Mental health Care, Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Storytelling
What do storytelling, reverie and mental health all have in common? Enough to warrant unquestioned faith in the roles that stories play-out through our lives. Stories. They explain our befuddled musings and become vessels for sharing experience. They are not limited to language but are as expansive as photographers, musicians, dancers and clowns dare to […]