IMHREC are hosting an exciting new event called the Recovery Café on the 16th February next in Dublin’s Red Cow Moran Hotel.
It is an event which is based on the World Café principles (www.theworldcafe.com) which will provide people from across Ireland with an interest in mental health, with an opportunity to come together and reflect reflect, exchange experiences, make connections and generate knowledge in order to focus our efforts into making mental health recovery a reality for everyone in Ireland in 2010 & beyond!
We are asking people to bring along their ideas, experience and knowledge, which we will hope they will share with other participants at The Recovery Café which operates on the core belief that everyone has something valuable to share!
Another feature of the event will be that the Minister for Equality, Disability and Mental Health at the Department of Health and Children, Mr. John Moloney T.D. will be launching IMHREC’s newly developed Recovery DVD & Poster.
Professor Agnes Higgins & her team of researchers will also be reporting on their experience of independently evaluating IMHREC’s Mental Health Recovery & WRAP Education Programme.
The ‘main course’ of the day, however, will be the conversations and connections made by the event’s participants in the afternoon. (See Download section for event programme.) Unfortunately, due to space limitations and the nature of the event, this event has to be invite only but watch this space as we will be reporting on the outcomes of the Recovery Café’s conversations here on imhrec.ie!
4 Comments on “IMHREC’s Upcoming Recovery Café Event: Facilitating conversations and connections that matter”
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Hi All @IMHREC.
Just want say big thank you to the organisers, especially Karen and valerie for the wonderfull well informed conference.
I have personally benefited alot from the day and looking forward to embed it in work place.
Will end this by saying HIP! HIP NO SITUATION IS PERMANENT AND RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE.
Posted on February 18, 2010 at 11:45 am.
Many thanks indeed Abdi for your supportive and appreciative comment! It really was a great day and I am delighted that you got alot out of it. A lovely message too that no situation is permanent and recovery is most definitely possible which we could all do with remembering. Kind regards, Valerie
Posted on February 18, 2010 at 2:32 pm.
Hi Folks,
Many thanks for an enjoyable day.
As as seasoned mh conference attendee, it was the first which despite medical persona somehow managed to sustain a caring feeling throughout. I felt afterwards that the clue to transcending the conventional psychiatric model may be precisely via such a nursing oriented recovery agenda.
What will decide that will be in the nature of the unfolding `discovery agenda’ as wrap evolves.
Posted on February 21, 2010 at 6:07 pm.
Hi Greg,
It was lovely meeting you again last Tuesday even if it was very briefly. Hopefully we can better chance to chat sometime in the future. I have to say that I am delighted that you found our Recovery Cafe to have a “caring feel”. It was great how everyone took and ran with the idea and we are looking forward to reading those tablecloths! Thanks for your participation as a table host and for playing a part in making the day great!
Valerie
Posted on February 22, 2010 at 4:54 pm.