Post by Admin on Jul 13, 2022 12:29:28 GMT
"How Do I Stay With?"
Review of an ISPS Lowlands webinar
Dear people,
I am addressing this letter to the initiators, organizers and contributors of the 'How do I stay with?' webinar organised by the ISPS Lowlands network.
I would like to congratulate you and express my sincerest gratitude for the webinar, which not only provided important information on 'How dealing with psychosis differently?' but in which the meeting online developed into a rich encounter between people facing psychosis from different backgrounds and perspectives.
The most remarkable thing was that we, as participants, could physically experience what equal communication via Open Dialogue does to a person. An approach in which vulnerability is not shunned, but on the contrary is valorized and forms the safe, common ground from which the recovery process can take root.
I attended this webinar from all three perspectives:
– as a caregiver where in my work as a family physician I have been confronted several times in recent years with a client who was experiencing a psychotic flare-up.
– as a child of a parent who experienced a serious mental crisis many years ago, through which I personally experienced what a disruptive impact this can have on the next generation if this crisis is not (carefully) cared for.
– and as a human being, who is aware of her own vulnerability and is looking for ways to deal with it in a resilient way.
In all three perspectives I felt addressed and moved. Even more, the webinar contributes to the recovery process in which I currently find myself. Thank you for this.
That today a meaningful alternative is offered in such a way that benefits both the person living a psychosis, the family and the caregiver, has a healing effect in me and it gives me hope for the future.
What if Open Dialogue is not only applied within the context of a psychosis, but in every context in which there is a psychological crisis? In all kinds of counseling? In conflicts in the classroom, on the work floor, in our daily lives? The world definitely would be a much friendlier place.
A webinar with so many contributors, is unseen, I believe. In any case, I have never experienced it before. I imagine it was not easy to organize this online. But it was exactly this set-up that made the message come across. Because it was not explained theoretically in a few powerpoints, but through an encounter and therefore could speak directly to the heart and have a much larger impact.
Please continue with these kinds of meetings, online or live. There is such a need for this, both with people who are going through a mental health crisis, as with family members who often do not know how to deal with it, as with social workers who, from powerlessness and not knowing any better, all too often hide behind a wall of so-called invulnerability.
Some ideas that come to mind for possible future webinars:
How to decode the meaning and richness that is (often) at the heart of a psychosis?
Psychosis as a catalyst for necessary change for the better in one's life?
How can living a psychosis contribute to the recovery process from unprocessed individual and transgenerational trauma?
And what message does psychosis have for society as a whole? Can it play a role in the healing process of collective trauma?
What is the impact of a psychosis that someone went through on the 2nd and 3rd generation in a family?
I wish you all the best and hopefully see you at a next meeting,
R. D.
Review of an ISPS Lowlands webinar
Dear people,
I am addressing this letter to the initiators, organizers and contributors of the 'How do I stay with?' webinar organised by the ISPS Lowlands network.
I would like to congratulate you and express my sincerest gratitude for the webinar, which not only provided important information on 'How dealing with psychosis differently?' but in which the meeting online developed into a rich encounter between people facing psychosis from different backgrounds and perspectives.
The most remarkable thing was that we, as participants, could physically experience what equal communication via Open Dialogue does to a person. An approach in which vulnerability is not shunned, but on the contrary is valorized and forms the safe, common ground from which the recovery process can take root.
I attended this webinar from all three perspectives:
– as a caregiver where in my work as a family physician I have been confronted several times in recent years with a client who was experiencing a psychotic flare-up.
– as a child of a parent who experienced a serious mental crisis many years ago, through which I personally experienced what a disruptive impact this can have on the next generation if this crisis is not (carefully) cared for.
– and as a human being, who is aware of her own vulnerability and is looking for ways to deal with it in a resilient way.
In all three perspectives I felt addressed and moved. Even more, the webinar contributes to the recovery process in which I currently find myself. Thank you for this.
That today a meaningful alternative is offered in such a way that benefits both the person living a psychosis, the family and the caregiver, has a healing effect in me and it gives me hope for the future.
What if Open Dialogue is not only applied within the context of a psychosis, but in every context in which there is a psychological crisis? In all kinds of counseling? In conflicts in the classroom, on the work floor, in our daily lives? The world definitely would be a much friendlier place.
A webinar with so many contributors, is unseen, I believe. In any case, I have never experienced it before. I imagine it was not easy to organize this online. But it was exactly this set-up that made the message come across. Because it was not explained theoretically in a few powerpoints, but through an encounter and therefore could speak directly to the heart and have a much larger impact.
Please continue with these kinds of meetings, online or live. There is such a need for this, both with people who are going through a mental health crisis, as with family members who often do not know how to deal with it, as with social workers who, from powerlessness and not knowing any better, all too often hide behind a wall of so-called invulnerability.
Some ideas that come to mind for possible future webinars:
How to decode the meaning and richness that is (often) at the heart of a psychosis?
Psychosis as a catalyst for necessary change for the better in one's life?
How can living a psychosis contribute to the recovery process from unprocessed individual and transgenerational trauma?
And what message does psychosis have for society as a whole? Can it play a role in the healing process of collective trauma?
What is the impact of a psychosis that someone went through on the 2nd and 3rd generation in a family?
I wish you all the best and hopefully see you at a next meeting,
R. D.