CAN2 Event

Hi All

Please see attached invitation to the next CAN2 event on Tuesday 24th of November.

CAN2 is a Canal Communities Local Drug & Alcohol Task Force funded initiative to provide training, education, and an opportunity for networking to the staff of the local projects.

Our guest speakers for this event will be:

Dr Claire McMoreland,
Clinical Psychologist from Headway who will talk about Alcohol Related Brain Injury, and

Denis O'Driscoll,
Senior Pharmacist with the HSE Addiction Services, who will talk about how alcohol reacts with other drugs in the body.

As usual we will be hosting our networking lunch from 12.30pm. Hope to see you there!

Please RSVP at your earliest convenience

Kind regards
--
Emma Fox
Project Development Worker
Canal Communities Regional Addiction Service       
Oblate View, Third Floor
Tryconnell Road
Inchicore
Dublin 8
Tel: 086 3845565

CAN2 Alcohol V2

Introduction to App Design and Development for Mobile Phones

Hi everyone,

Please find attached a flyer for a course that is starting on Friday 20^th November in Fr. Kitt Court, Crumlin Village, Dublin 12.

The course is an introduction to App Design and Development for Mobile Phones. It takes place over 4 sessions 2pm-4pm from Friday 20^th November to Friday 11^th December. No IT or previous experience is necessary. Registration is required and we will be prioritising young unemployed people from the CCP areas of Dublin 4, 6, 6W, 8 and 12.

The office number is 4095082. They will be the main contacts for registration for this course.

Please give me a call if you’ve any questions,

Regards

Tara

Introduction to App Development Nov15

Cork Critical Perspectives Conference Live Streaming

Dear All

Apologies for cross posting.

For those of you not attending the above annual critical perspective conference this Wednesday and Thursday, you may be interested to watch the keynotes which are being streamed live.

Please use the following link https://ucc.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx#status=%5B2%2C5%5D

Alternatively, follow the links below:

09:45 David Pilgrim
An Honorary Professor of Health; Social Policy at the University of Liverpool and Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton. His career has been divided between working as a policy researcher and as a clinical psychologist in the British NHS.
  Live Stream Link

12:00 Dina Poursanidou
A Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, based at the Service User Research Enterprise; Dina has used mental health services since 2008; Member of Asylum, the magazine for democratic psychiatry.
  Live Stream Link

13:45 Malcolm Garland
A consultant psychiatrist in Dublin. His team tries to incorporate novel and alternative approaches, including a minimal medication approach and an ethos fostering individuation, not dependence.
  Live Stream Link

Thursday 12 November:

09:45 Jacqui Dillon
is a respected speaker, writer and activist, who has lectured and published worldwide on trauma, psychosis, dissociation and recovery. Jacqui is the national Chair of the Hearing Voices Network in England.
  Live Stream Link

10:30 Wilma Boevink
An experiential expert, social scientist at the Trimbos-Institute, the Netherlands. Former Professor of Recovery and founder of Tree (towards Recovery, Empowerment and Experiential Expertise).
  Live Stream Link

13:45 Rory Doody
A Recovery Development Advocate. He is a voice hearer and engages with his own mental health as often as he breathes! Plagued by inner questions like “who does this serve?” he enquires in the different areas of his work, involving education, case work, service and policy developments, structural change, and good intentions.
  Live Stream Link


Plenty of conference information (e.g. programme and Book of Abstract) on www.cvni.ie

Regards

Harry Gijbels and Lydia Sapouna

www.cvni.ie (recently re-constructed and being further developed, thanks to Gordon Lucas)
criticalvoices@working4recovery.com

Staring into each other's eyes...

Hello Everyone!

Here's a bit of member-written content, supplied by Gateway Member Nessa J. It's a piece on the Dublin leg of The World's Largest Eye Contact Experiment. Sounds really interesting! Enjoy!

Staring Into each other’s Eyes…

With kind permission and by mutual consent, I was allowed to share facetime with two total strangers. By appointment at 5pm on an October evening,  a random group of likeminded individuals collected at the top of Grafton Street as part of the World’s Largest Eye Contact Experiment. This was the Dublin leg of similar gatherings taking place in many cities across the world. Treacy O’Connor was responsible for organising the Dublin event using facebook.

On arrival, the paving was arrayed with blankets, mats and potential partners. There was certainly an international feel and ease about this arrangement which so naturally occurred. Instead of the sometimes aggression you encounter in centre city, a palpable calm descended as if by magic while people paired up. Firstly, I sat down and stared into the eyes of a big-eyed open-hearted long-haired tall girl for a prolonged session that well-exceeded the one minute. The effect was actually remarkable.

Principally, there was no talking, some smiling, plenty of deep stare, and surprisingly little looking away. The air was lovely and fresh down there on the ground in the shadow of St. Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre. She quite simply let it be.

The speed of my personal refection must have kick-started as I turned over a rapid succession of thought in the girl’s gaze. At the end, I actually felt I had dumped on her whereas she seemed okay about it.  As for herself, I had of course no idea what she was thinking about!  She assured me it was quality.

My second dalliance took place with a sandy-haired ‘schoolboy’ who likewise had plenty of experience at providing this kind of care. Despite the cameras, an ambulance and a bloke next door explaining how his life is, like, really busy - at which we laughed through our eyes ‘that guy obviously doesn’t know the rules here’.

I left with the distinct idea that this world is really changing for the better; these people must do this kind of thing a lot; and we must do this more often , which is the same thought all rolled into one if you think about it. My evening was transformed by the sudden and unexpected connection.

November 2015 Monthly Schedule and Newsletter

Hello all!

Here is this month's Newsletter and Schedule.

Enjoy!

JM

November 2015

November 2015

Music in Mind Vocal Group at Gateway

Hello everyone!

So…any singers among you lot???

Our new Music in Mind Vocal Group will be starting on Wednesday the 18th! Fancy having a go?? I’ve attached the flyer for this event to this email.

Have a look, see what you think. Let us know if you’re interested and we’ll get your name down for it.

All the best folks,

John M.

Mim

Gateway Newsletter and Schedule for October 2015

Hi Everyone,

Here is this months Schedule and newsletter, Enjoy!

October 2015 Newsletter

October 2015