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A Place To Belong is a small agency that works to encourage a process of inclusion for people who experience mental health challenges. We do this by developing and encouraging the capacity of the community to welcome and include others.

Special fundingThis conference is supported by funding from the Austra-lian Government Department of Health and Ageing under the Mental Health Conference Funding Program, which is managed by the Mental Health Council of Australia. This funding provides subsidies for those people who require mental health support, their carers and supporters.

For those who are in need of assistance who live locally, you are welcome to request a discounted registration fee of $10 for the day. For those who live rurally and out of town, limited funding is available for travel and accommodation, in addition to the reduced registration fee.

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21. Hope with Sharon Stocker

What constitutes wellbeing and how does hope come to life? What is autonomy and how can autonomy work hand in hand to create wellbeing? Moving into listening and knowing how to cultivate hope will assist you to live your preferred identity and to channel energy and information in new ways. This workshop invites you to become a thought partner to explore and generate hope through optimism.

Sharon currently works in private consultation as a wellbe-ing coach and as an Emotional CPR trainer. From 2007 – 2010, Sharon was Chair of the Prince Charles Mental Health Consumer Advisory Group part of the Consumer Companion pilot program. She was awarded an Australia Day award in 2009. Sharon is also currently a member of the Workforce Council Leadership Group as well as being a Mum of two school aged daughters and is a firm believer that anything is possible with a growth mindset.

9. Forgiveness with Robert BlandRobert will facilitate a discussion on forgiveness in the journey towards wellbeing. For information about Robert see workshop no.9.

23. eCPR with Jenny SpeedEmotional CPR (eCPR) is a public health education pro-gram designed to teach people to assist others through an emotional crisis by three simple steps: C = Connecting, P = emPowering, and R = Revitalizing. People who have been through the training consistently report that the skills they learned have helped them communicate better in all their relationships. They tell us that eCPR is a way of life. For information about Jenny see workshop no.7.

Inclusion awardspresented by Queensland Mental Health Commissioner, Dr Lesley van Schoubroeck

As part of this year’s Wellbeing Day, presentations will be made to people and/or organisations who have contributed significantly to someone’s inclusion. This year we are joined by Queensland Mental Health Commissioner, Dr Lesley van Schoubroeck, and Steve Heap who will present the awards. These annual awards are designed to highlight that inclusion can happen and that ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Please contact Peter Henderson, on 0423-286-423 or samson2@hotmail.com for further information about subsidized travel and accommodation. For more information about Wellbeing Day, please contact our registration staff on 07 3217-2522 and at registration@aplacetobelong.org.au or Kym Thomas at kym.thomas69@bigpond.com

Please join us for an exciting day for those interested in learning about wellbeing and growing through mental health

challenges, their families, carers and friends, as well as workers

in the mental health sector.

Saturday, October 26thSt Aidan’s Anglican Girls School,

Corinda, Brisbane

invites you to

Do you want to attend, but live out of town? See below for information about special funding

Those attending Wellbeing Day will have the opportunity to explore ways of enhancing mental health. The day will consider questions like: what does wellbeing mean; how does one transition to better mental health and is the process life giving; how do we participate with this process in our own lives; how do we support and encourage others in their quest for mental health; how can mental health services assist us on our journey toward wholeness and wellbeing?

This event is relevant for anyone interested in learning about wellbeing and growing through mental health challenges. It will be beneficial to people living with these challenges, their families and those who stand alongside them, as well as workers in the mental health sector.

Keynote speakersHelen GloverHelen is passionate about the concept of personal resilience and ‘recovery in’ mental illness and firmly believes that everyone has the capacity to self-right over its impacts and is interested in how we constantly strive to master the things that stand in our way. Helen uses her background in social work and education as well as her lived experience of recovery from mental illness to expand and challenge the concepts of recovery-oriented practice.

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Helen sees that services could be created from inception or restructured to assist people to thrive rather than pick up the pieces after illness. Someone seeking a service might be asking for help with meaning making, strategies to build hope and health in their lives, or making or recon-necting with people or services that they need. These are not issues exclusive to people with a mental illness, they are common to all humanity. What kinds of changes need to be implemented in the way we build organiza-tions to work with people from a wellness perspective? What makes a person well, rather than just dealing with the fallout of ‘illness’? What kind of changes could a peer, working alongside people, make and how quickly?

Toni Powell and GratitudeA former worrier, Toni Powell has now become a warrior at the forefront of improving people’s lives through passion, gratitude, creativity, happiness and all that is wholesome. Toni began her career making an award

winning film and appeared on the ABC’s Australian Story. Recently, she developed the 30 Day Gratitude Challenge, a workplace oriented training program leading to happier more proactive workplaces. After conducting interviews throughout the world and with people from all walks of life, Toni is developing a documentary Goodness, Gracious Me! Still in production, she intends that this documentary will share the life-transforming effects of gratitude. By devoting ten minutes a day to this program we can gain greater life satis-faction, vitality, optimism and more satisfying relationships.

Toni has spoken at the Happiness Conference in Melbourne and Wired for Wonder in Sydney alongside the Dalai Lama and Michael Leunig. Toni loves to see people leaving the room armed with practical tools to enrich their lives, making every minute meaningful. Her topic for Wellness Day will be gratitude, the wonder drug that makes people happier, less stressed, more hard-working and less complaining. It sounds like a drug worth becoming addicted to!

Morning workshops1. “More of the same...no thank you!” with Richard Nelson and Ivan Frkovic

We will discuss where we have come from; what the system looks like now; what it could look like in the future.

Richard is the CEO of Queensland Alliance for Mental Health Inc., the peak body for the mental health community sector. Richard is committed to strengthening the sector and is passionate about working towards a system that is focussed on people’s recovery in their own homes and communities.

Ivan Frkovic is the National Operations Manager for Aftercare Queensland and past Director of Community Mental Health, State Department of Communities. Ivan is a key supporter of organizations dedicated to community inclusion.

2. Voice hearing with Kelly SumnerThe Hearing Voices movement views voice hearing as a valid and unique experience, in which each voice hearer’s own experience is central. A Mental Health Recovery Worker with Communify’s Personal Helpers and Mentors program, Kelly Sumner will present a workshop on voice hearing, with information, activities and strategies for people who hear voices, their family, friends and carers, and professionals working with people who hear voices.

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1. “More of the same...no thank you!” 2. Voice hearing 3. ‘Choir of Unheard Voices’ 4. Working with people from different cultural backgrounds 5. PATH 6. Understanding the underlying issues behind addictions 7. Tools for wellbeing/PeerZone 8. Inclusion strategies 9. Forgiveness 10. Connection and contentment 11. Story kiosk—the pros and cons of telling your story 12. WRAP

13. Working for wellbeing in an era of corporatisation 14. Finding your voice 15. What happened to all the jobs and how social entrepreneurship can help 16. NIA 17. Alcohol and other drugs— the effects on health and other areas of our lives and stages of change 18. Happiness for families and carers 19. How to help your brain 20. Challenges for the homeless 21. Hope 22. Forgiveness 23. eCPR

Morning workshops Afternoon Workshops

Join our keynotes speakers, talk to Qld Mental Health Commissioner, Dr Lesley van Schoubroeck, and choose from over 20 workshops

Saturday, October 26th, 2013 Registration closes Friday, October 18th See over for information about our low cost and special priced registration fees

3. ‘Choir of Unheard Voices’ with Margie Ward

Choir of Unheard Voices began in 2008 and has for the past five years brought the joy of singing and a place to belong to people who experience mental illness.

Choir of Unheard Voices presents an interactive session in singing for healing, singing for self and singing for others. Members of the choir will lead participants through a hands on choir session to experience the power of singing and give them an insight into what group singing can mean for the lives of not only those who experience mental illness but for everyone.

4. Working with people from different cultural backgrounds with Harmony Place

Culture relates to deep aspects of individual and group life and encompasses a variety of aspects. This workshop will explore some of the barriers that people from diverse cultural backgrounds face and how to address them.

Also, focus is placed on the essence of becoming an effective cross-cultural worker by reflecting on some helpful strategies.

Harmony Place provides culturally sensitive services that promote mental health and wellbeing for people from diverse cultural and language backgrounds across their lifespan.

5. Planning Alternatives Tomorrows with Hope (PATH) with Tania Schmakeit, Matt Armstrong and Wendy Chandler

This workshop explores the use of Planning Alternatives Tomorrows with Hope (PATH) and its relationship with the personal journey of mental health recovery. The process is person centred, creative, and exploratory, using graphics, colour and visuals to explore opportunities and meaning.

Matt Armstrong is a PATH facilitator and is passionate about how PATH can pave a way for people to “re-story” recovery. This passion has led to the focus group study with a community of practice.

Wendy Chandler is the mother of a young man with multiple impairments using the PATH tool both personally and profes-sionally for over a decade and is a strong advocate of PATH when it comes to empowering and enhancing people’s lives.

Tania Schmakeit has worked alongside people experiencing homelessness since 1993 and has a deep commitment to human rights and social inclusion and recognises the poten-tial of PATH as a process for generating new opportunities.

6. Understanding the underlying issues behind addictions with George Patriki The aim of this workshop is to help understand what drives addictive behaviours such as alcohol and other drugs. When we realise that people are driven to meets their needs, we understand that they may choose unhealthy ways to do that such as chemical abuse. We will then focus on how to motivate a person to address the real problem of unmet needs.

George has a lived experience of being dependent on drugs and is committed to reaching out to people struggling with addictive behaviours, particularly those with severe life controlling problems due to childhood trauma. George works as a court advocate and counsellor providing community forums, seminars and recovery groups.

7. Tools for wellbeing (using the PeerZone model) with Jenny SpeedPeerZone explores recovery and whole of life wellbeing within five themes: understanding ourselves; empowering ourselves; working on our wellbeing; connecting to the world; exploring our unique identities. PeerZone works on three levels: it invites us to rebuild a more positive story of our lives; it offers tools for wellbeing; and creates a community of mutual support.

Jenny Speed has worked for more than thirty years in health administration, planning and policy, disability and mental health advocacy. Jenny is an activist with a strong commit-ment to social justice. She is currently working at Sisters Inside, an organisation providing support and advocacy for women and their children in the criminal justice system. Jenny is certified at all levels of Intentional Peer Support.

8. Inclusion strategies with Sue TreewickSue Treewick’s workshop focuses on inclusion through peer and self-support, and on building networks so people with disabilities have a voice and rightful place as valued members of society. Sue will demonstrate how building networks and raising awareness through education can show isolated people that they are valued and welcome in communities. Initiatives providing flexible employment op-portunities will be presented, including Sue’s No Problem cleaning. These initiatives enable users to be supported to give back to society and to gain enhanced self-esteem.

Sue suggests that an attitude of insight, forgiveness, shar-ing, empathy and vision is necessary to change the mental health system to one which values all. This comes out of a lived experience of wrongful institutionalization as a child in an adult facility with no hope of release. Sue understands the impact of this kind of experience.

9. Forgiveness with Robert BlandRobert will facilitate a discussion on forgiveness in the journey towards wellbeing.

Robert is the Professor of Social Work at the University of Queensland. He is published widely in the area of social work and mental health practice. His research led to a family intervention program at the Princess Alexandra hospital—a program implemented across Australia. Robert’s past committee involvement includes the AASW Mental Health Committee, the Practice Standards Commit-tee, and the Mental Health Council of Australia. He is past President of the Australian Council of Heads of Schools of Social Work, and board member of NGOs including An-glicare Tasmania, NEAMI National and Aspire. Robert is a member of the Anglican Community Services Commission.

10. Connection and contentment with Jeffrey Johnson-AbdelmalikRecovery is a vital concept that is growing and changing as we grow and change. It now means a lot more than the clinical definition of a return to a level of functioning in community. Many people now see it as a springboard to new life, hope and joy, not Recovery but Discovery and Wellbeing. The history of the idea of Recovery will be briefly traced, with an opportunity to explore a new dimension —how connecting with our desire for happiness and contentment can become the driver of our recovery.

Jeffrey Johnson-Abdelmalik is a researcher in social inclusion with the Queensland University of Technology, working in community, who identifies as a survivor of depression with a deep commitment to getting happy!

11. Story kiosk—the pros and cons of telling your story with Christine Wall and Damian le GoullonIn the last couple of years there seems to have developed a common myth that telling your story is therapeutic. This fo-rum will provides a space for artists and writers to explore the value and risks of story telling. The panel will be facilitated by Christine Wall and Damian le Goullon from A Place to Belong. It will feature the stories and experiences of adult participants of the RAW program. The RAW program assists adult learn-ers to find the words they need, for story or for change.

Damian le Goullon is a Visual Arts and Drama teacher working with homeless youth on community arts projects for a decade.

Christine Wall is an adult learner who has used her passion for learning and art as a personal strategy to offset the debilitating effects of depression.

12. WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Planning) with Dee Jackson, Carissa Griffiths, Fran Dagostino and Julie HylandThis workshop provides an overview of the leading international recovery program for mental health self management and wellbeing generated by Mary Ellen Copeland and her fellow peers.

This workshop includes an interactive session, focussing on daily wellness tools and activities that help us to feel better, reducing and eliminating emotional and physical difficulties.

Julie is a clinical nurse with over 30 years experience working in mental health and recovery support services.

Dee works in the Resident Recovery Program at Footprints. She has a background in social work and a passion for working with people towards recovery and wellbeing.

Fran is a peer worker with Footprints and co-facilitates the WRAP Workshops and Power On Women’s Wellbeing Group.

Carissa works in the Resident Recovery Program at Footprints. She has a passion for group work and has worked with diverse groups of people towards recovery.

Afternoon workshops13. Working for wellbeing in an era of corporatisation with Lynda Shevellar, Owen Strong and Neil Barringham

Many of us hope to support inclusive and welcoming communities where people are assisted and can grow. However the organisations we are involved with may become so concerned with formalisation, compliance and control that our attempts to work for wellbeing in community are stifled if not suffocated! How can we work in this context? In this workshop we will hear how A Place To Belong has negoti-ated these forces and look at approaches we can use in our various organisations to manage these dilemmas.

Lynda Shevellar is interested in how we create change: in our communities, in our organisations and in ourselves. Lynda works at The University of Queensland where she lectures and researches in community development. She is a member of the Operating Committee of A Place To Belong.

Owen Strong has spent many years in Anglican parish ministry and was the coordinator for the Anglican Church’s hospital chaplaincy team in Brisbane. Owen secured funding enabling the establishment of the Anglicare Mental Health Project which over time became A Place To Belong. Owen is a member of the Operating Committee of A Place To Belong.

Neil Barringham lives in inner-city Brisbane with his wife and two sons. He works with A Place To Belong.

14. Finding your voice with Sarah Dunston

This workshop will explore how sensory awareness and vocal techniques can be used to facilitate feelings of well being. Based on songs and techniques used in a popular weekly vocal group run through A Place to Belong this workshop aims to explore how feelings of wellness, happiness and joy can be enhanced through participation in group singing. No experience necessary!

Sarah Dunston is a performer, music teacher and music therapist in training. She has experience working in both community and acute mental health settings. Through these experiences, she has become aware of how singing as a group provides an authentic experience of inclusion and cohesion. If you love to sing, this workshop is for you.

15. What happened to all the jobs and how social entrepreneurship can help with Luke Terry

Join Luke and a member of the Toowoomba Clubhouse as they explore the journey of what future jobs will look like and why we need to act now to invest in tomorrow’s innovation around everything from social procurement groups to 3D printing...

Luke Terry has been working in mental health, social enter-prises, procurement and social bonds for eight years. In his short time running the Toowoomba Clubhouse he has made significant inroads in creating employment for people living with a mental illness.

16. NIA with Harmony PlaceNia is a fun expressive movement practice that leaves you feeling energised and alive. It is a “dance like no one’s watching” workout that brings cardiovascular conditioning and optimises whole body fitness in ways that feel good. The name Nia comes from an acronym—non-impact aerobics. Nia draws on the joy of dance, the flexibility of yoga, the mindfulness of meditation, the power of martial arts, the core strength of pilates, and more.

17. Alcohol and other drugs—the effects on health and other areas of our lives and stages of change with George Patriki

Understand the main risks and consequences of alcohol and other drugs and receive information to encourage people using these substances to move forward and improve their quality of life (optimal health), not just minimise the harm of

their substance abuse. We will also discuss the stages of change and how people move forward slowly in their own timing through phases. See workshop no.5 for information on George.

18. Happiness for families and carers with Shidan Toloui-Wallace

This workshop is designed to address the needs and chal-lenges for families and carers, and presents strategies for choosing happiness. Based on Dr. Timothy Sharp’s work, the workshop will explore six keys to happiness, including clarity and optimism, building positive relationships and utilising your inner strength. There is no doubt that happiness is something we can choose.

Shidan has 13 years of working experience in education and training, and is currently an education coordinator/ facilitator. Shidan has a great interest in serving her community and her present position as a Carer Educator at Arafmi Queensland presents an opportunity for her to continue to contribute in a meaningful way to a field that means so much to her.

19. How to help your brain with Monique Downie

Monique has a keen interest in brain based therapies and sharing the knowledge of how the brain changes and learns. This workshop will cover what happens in the brain when a person is experiencing anxiety or depression. Following this Monique hopes to facilitate some discus-sion about how we can help our brains to be as healthy as possible, consequently helping us to regulate our emotions, behavior and physical health.

Monique is a qualified Social Worker who runs a small busi-ness named Our Future Focus. Her business aims to assist people to become more connected in their communities in whichever way works best for them.

20. Challenges for the homeless with Darren McGhee

This session will be highly interactive as the reasons for homelessness and lack of affordable housing are discussed, experiences shared and responses to these issues explored.

Darren has worked in community services for over 15 years and has held leadership positions with Micah Projects and the Queensland Council of Social Services coordinating homelessness service. Darren is current manager of the Salvation Army Youth Outreach Service.

Saturday, October 26th, 2013, 9am-4.30pm. Registration, tea and coffee at 8.30am Join us at St Aidan’s Anglican Girl’s School, 11 Ruthven St., Corinda, Brisbane