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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

FINDING SOLID GROUND conference 28th June (see below) : full programme and details of talks and workshops now on line

!!... and the opportunity for the ”Early Bird“ reduced price has been extended to May 20th !!

Also Full details of the free Gateshead "Spiritual Crisis" event now on line


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Finding Solid Ground: investigating mental health, spirituality and extreme human experiences

Rufus May ♦ Catherine Lucas Caroline Brett ♦ Charlie Heriot-Maitland ♦ Isabel Clarke
An interactive conference with talks,workshops and opportunities for you to participate
28th June 2013, University of Sunderland
9.00 - 4.30 . Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St Peter's

Tickets (including lunch and refreshments):
Early Bird Price (payment received before 20th May): £65. Full Price: £85
There are some 'cost of catering' tickets for current service users and their carers at £15; see booking form for information.
Booking: spiritualcrisisnetwork.eventbrite.co.uk
Contact for information: conference@spiritualcrisisnetwork.org.uk Tel: 07590 643336

Recent research New ways of helping people through crisis New understanding of extreme human experiences – all offering hopeful and transformative ways forward for those struggling with experiences that can be described variously as: spiritual crisis / psychosis etc.

Posters and Artwork

Research and Experience

We welcome poster submissions on themes related to the conference, particularly research and experience. Artwork is also welcome.
Please contact conference@spiritualcrisisnetwork.org.uk to book a space.

This event has been made possible by a grant from the Lily Matthews Fund.

View or right-click to download a flier for this conference



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Past Events

Isabel Clarke will be contributing a workshop on:

'The Challenge of being Porous' to the Confer Summer School on Therapist Wellbeing to be held at

UPPER GATE HOUSE, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon. TQ9 6EL

on Monday 2nd July.

Please see: http://www.confer.uk.com/summer1.html for more details.

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Isabel Clarke will be presenting on

‘Spirituality and Psychosis’

at the Spirituality in Mental Health North East Forum.

Thursday 5 July 2012 between 9.00am – 1.00pm followed by lunch at

MORPETH METHODIST CHURCH, Howard Terrace, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 1HU

To book a place please contact Lois Potter at
Chaplaincy Centre, St Nicholas Hospital, Jubilee Road, Gosforth
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 3XT

Tel: 0844 811 5522 ext 28820 or email: lois.potter@ntw.nhs.uk

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Learn about Spiritual Crisis.

What helps? Supporting people though spiritual crisis.
What is it? Talks and discussion led by SCN members.

28th April 2012

Stillpoint, 25 Montgomery Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1LN

This is a free event - you will be invited to contribute towards the costs.

It is essential that you register in advance as numbers are limited.
Please email info@spiritualcrisisnetwork.org.uk to register your attendance.Learn about Spiritual Crisis.

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Learn about Spiritual Crisis.

What helps? Supporting people though spiritual crisis.
What is it? Talks and discussion led by SCN members.

24th March 2012

London

This is a free event - you will be invited to contribute towards the costs.
It is essential that you register in advance as numbers are limited.
Please email info@spiritualcrisisnetwork.org.uk to register your attendance.

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We welcome you to an open meeting on

Thursday, 23rd February 2012
2-4pm
Essex Unitarian Church, Kensington, London

112 Palace Gardens Terrace, W8 4RT
For travel details: http://www.kensington-unitarians.org.uk
on
SPIRITUAL EMERGENCY
‘Intense and Disturbing’- Experiencing Spiritual Crisis
Thinking wider when ‘psychosis’ is an inadequate description for the person and the practitioner alike.

It can be hard to tell the difference between a psychosis and an intense and disturbing spiritual experience. Maybe if two types of experience look similar it is because they are – spiritual preoccupations of psychotic experience are well known.

JIM TAYLOR, mental health practitioner and service user, will illustrate this from his personal experience of spiritual crisis.

ISABEL CLARKE, consultant clinical psychologist will supply some theoretical understanding of the new conceptualisation that leads to more hopeful and life enhancing ways of supporting people through such experiences.

CHARLIE HERIOT-MAITLAND, clinical psychologist, will present his research which demonstrates the importance of context for determining the outcome of the experience, e.g. whether the experience has helpful or unhelpful, clinical or non-clinical, consequences.

Maybe we are asking the wrong questions by seeking to make distinction. The Spiritual Crisis Network http://www.spiritualcrisisnetwork.org.uk/ is an organisation which provides information and support for this phenomenon. Its members have found that accepting that psychosis and spirituality may represent the same area of human experience that opens the way to unlocking its creative potential; and that breaking through into a different dimension of experiencing can, with the right containment and support, lead to life changing and life affirming. Spiritual Crisis refers to a particular phenomenon where a spiritual experience is felt as an opening or emergence and becomes overwhelming. Stan Grof, a pioneer of Transpersonal Psychology coined the term ‘Spiritual Emergency’.

For Free Registration contact: info@mhspiritualty.org.uk
 
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Psychosis and Spirituality:

Inner Journeys in a Time Of Transition

10th November 2011. Art and Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University.

Material from this conference is available on spiritualcrisisnetwork.org.uk/innerjourneys/

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