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rav3n||Last message 1 day ago
SANE'S INNOVATE RAP - What does reconciliation look like in our community?

Hey Forumites!!✨ A few weeks ago, the SANE Team attended a conference where @RachSANECEO shared SANE’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), which now we get to share with you! You can check out our Journey to Reconciliation, and read all about SANE’s Innovate RAP. To summarise, our goal for the next 3 years is to: End mental health inequality through systemic change Eliminate stigma, discrimination, and social exclusion We recognise the deep and lasting impact colonisation has had—and continues to have—on the mental health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. With many of the people we support living in regional, rural, and remote areas, developing an Innovate RAP is a meaningful step in advancing our vision and strengthening our commitment to genuine reconciliation.  We want our forums community involved in this step with us – we want you all to reflect on what reconciliation and closing the gap looks like for you.   Here’s our 2 questions to the forums community: What does reconciliation mean or look like to you? Show us by sharing photos or artworks (make sure to follow the guidelines when posting), or feel free to create your own artwork!As seen on the RAP (and presented below), ‘Heal the People’ by Kelly Marie Taylor is an artwork that incorporates symbols to express her journey. We’ve copied below some symbols you can use when creating your own art piece (and feel free to google some more symbols).   What’s one way you’re thinking about engaging with reconciliation moving forward? Feel free to also share meaningful ways you’ve engaged in the past and what you’ve learnt from those experiences.   We look forward to seeing everyone’s contributions 💖

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Dimity|Senior Contributor|Last message about 17 hours ago
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rav3n|Peer Support Worker|Last message 1 day ago
SANE'S INNOVATE RAP - What does reconciliation look like in our community?

Hey Forumites!!✨ A few weeks ago, the SANE Team attended a conference where @RachSANECEO shared SANE’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), which now we get to share with you! You can check out our Journey to Reconciliation, and read all about SANE’s Innovate RAP. To summarise, our goal for the next 3 years is to: End mental health inequality through systemic change Eliminate stigma, discrimination, and social exclusion We recognise the deep and lasting impact colonisation has had—and continues to have—on the mental health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. With many of the people we support living in regional, rural, and remote areas, developing an Innovate RAP is a meaningful step in advancing our vision and strengthening our commitment to genuine reconciliation.  We want our forums community involved in this step with us – we want you all to reflect on what reconciliation and closing the gap looks like for you.   Here’s our 2 questions to the forums community: What does reconciliation mean or look like to you? Show us by sharing photos or artworks (make sure to follow the guidelines when posting), or feel free to create your own artwork!As seen on the RAP (and presented below), ‘Heal the People’ by Kelly Marie Taylor is an artwork that incorporates symbols to express her journey. We’ve copied below some symbols you can use when creating your own art piece (and feel free to google some more symbols).   What’s one way you’re thinking about engaging with reconciliation moving forward? Feel free to also share meaningful ways you’ve engaged in the past and what you’ve learnt from those experiences.   We look forward to seeing everyone’s contributions 💖

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Appleblossom|Community Elder|Last message 4 days ago
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Emmy2002|New Contributor|Last message 7 days ago
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Dimity|Senior Contributor|Last message 7 days ago
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Dimity|Senior Contributor|Last message 11 days ago
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Dimity|Senior Contributor|Last message 10 days ago
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Appleblossom|Community Elder|Last message 11 days ago
Mad Pride and intersections with art, creativity and marginalised groups

@Jynx @chibam @tyme  Madness is often associated with shame and stigma and discrimination. Mad Pride involves a way of embracing aspects of madness without necessarily pathologising or rejecting the value in the many and varied eperiences of people experiencing madness.  Yes there are popularised jokes about howling at the moon and there are studies into serious mental health issues. Jynx invited me to start a thread. Its pretty broad, so I hope we can keep it going. When I joined Sane I began a few threads trying to get a more discursive mindset on the Sane forums. Mostly, those threads disappeared into the wilderness...although I was pleased, that some Sane staff did the Narrative Therapy training in Dulwich SA. Now we have a whole section devoted to advocating for change.  Grateful. Just to kick it off I am sharing a pdf by a Netherlands scholar in Mad Studies.  I find Mad Studies an enlightened approach towards madness, as I am more and more disappointed in the mainstream. file://How_to_Turn_Madness_into_Art_and_Philoso.pdf  not sure if this is alright? Can we get pdf attached without my downloads, by putting in https Faffing around technically isnt my strong suite, but somehow I have a huge book to share, which really might be good. Lets see what happens. Work in progress. https://johv.dk/public/books/kusters2020.pdf  One of my marginalisations is that my mother tongue is not English, and yes I am drawn to the insights of both the cultures of my ancestry. Bessel van der kolk isnt the only good Dutch writer in the field.  There are a lot of cu tting edge academic studies. and a pic ...Munch - The Scream    

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