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PO Box 5873, West End 4101 | 07 3217-2522

www.aplacetobelong.org.au

A Place To Belong is a small agency that works to encourage aprocess o inclusion or people who experience mental health

challenges. We do this by developing and encouraging thecapacity o the community to welcome and include others.

Special fundingThis conerence is supported by unding rom the Austra-lian Government Department o Health and Ageing underthe Mental Health Conerence Funding Program, which ismanaged by the Mental Health Council o Australia. Thisunding provides subsidies or those people who require

mental health support, their carers and supporters.For those who are in need o assistance who live locally,you are welcome to request a discounted registration ee o$10 or the day. For those who live rurally and out o town,limited unding is available or travel and accommodation,in addition to the reduced registration ee.

A Place To Belong is administered by

Mental HealthCouncil of Australia

21. Hope with Sharon Stocker

What constitutes wellbeing and how does hope come to

lie? What is autonomy and how can autonomy work handin hand to create wellbeing? Moving into listening andknowing how to cultivate hope will assist you to live yourpreerred identity and to channel energy and inormation innew ways. This workshop invites you to become a thoughtpartner 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 o the Prince Charles MentalHealth Consumer Advisory Group part o the ConsumerCompanion pilot program. She was awarded an AustraliaDay award in 2009. Sharon is also currently a member othe Workorce Council Leadership Group as well as beinga Mum o two school aged daughters and is a rm believerthat anything is possible with a growth mindset.

9. Forgiveness with Robert Bland

Robert will acilitate a discussion on orgiveness in thejourney towards wellbeing. For inormation about Robertsee workshop no.9.

23. eCPR with Jenny Speed

Emotional CPR (eCPR) is a public health education pro-gram designed to teach people to assist others through anemotional crisis by three simple steps: C = Connecting, P =emPowering, and R = Revitalizing. People who have beenthrough the training consistently report that the skills theylearned have helped them communicate better in all theirrelationships. They tell us that eCPR is a way o lie.For inormation about Jenny see workshop no.7.

Inclusion awardspresented by Queensland Mental HealthCommissioner, Dr Lesley van Schoubroeck

As part o this years Wellbeing Day, presentations will bemade to people and/or organisations who have contributedsignicantly to someones inclusion. This year we are joinedby Queensland Mental Health Commissioner, Dr Lesley vanSchoubroeck, and Steve Heap who will present the awards.These annual awards are designed to highlight thatinclusion can happen and that ordinary people can doextraordinary things.

Please contact Peter Henderson, on 0423-286-423 orsamson2@hotmail.com or urther inormation about

subsidized travel and accommodation. For moreinormation about Wellbeing Day, please contactour registration sta on 07 3217-2522 and atregistration@aplacetobelong.org.au or Kym Thomas atkym.thomas69@bigpond.com

Please join us or anexciting day or those interested

in learning about wellbeing and

growing through mental health

challenges, their amilies, carers

and riends, as well as workers

in the mental health sector.

Saturday, October 26thSt Aidans 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

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Those attending Wellbeing Day will have the opportunityto explore ways of enhancing mental health. The daywill consider questions like: what does wellbeing mean;how does one transition to better mental health and isthe process life giving; how do we participate with thisprocess in our own lives; how do we support andencourage others in their quest for mental health; how

can mental health services assist us on our journeytoward wholeness and wellbeing?

This event is relevant or anyone interested in learningabout wellbeing and growing through mental healthchallenges. It will be benefcial to people living with thesechallenges, their amilies and those who stand alongsidethem, as well as workers in the mental health sector.

Keynote speakers

Helen Glover

Helen is passionate about theconcept o personal resilience andrecovery in mental illness andrmly believes that everyone hasthe capacity to sel-right over itsimpacts and is interested inhow we constantly striveto master the things that stand in our way. Helen uses herbackground in social work and education as well as herlived experience o recovery rom mental illness to expandand challenge the concepts o recovery-oriented practice.

Surprise: rom recovery to wellbeing to...

Helen sees that services could be created rom inceptionor restructured to assist people to thrive rather than pickup the pieces ater illness. Someone seeking a servicemight be asking or help with meaning making, strategiesto 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 o changesneed to be implemented in the way we build organiza-tions to work with people rom a wellness perspective?What makes a person well, rather than just dealing withthe allout o illness? What kind o changes could a peer,working alongside people, make and how quickly?

Toni Powell and GratitudeA ormer worrier, Toni Powell has now become awarrior at the oreront o improving peoples lives throughpassion, gratitude, creativity, happiness and all that iswholesome. Toni began her career making an award

winning lm and appeared on theABCs Australian Story. Recently,she developed the 30 Day GratitudeChallenge, a workplace orientedtraining program leading to happiermore proactive workplaces. Aterconducting interviews throughout

the world and with people rom allwalks o lie, Toni is developing adocumentary Goodness, GraciousMe! Still in production, she intends that this documentary willshare the lie-transorming eects o gratitude. By devoting tenminutes a day to this program we can gain greater lie satis-action, vitality, optimism and more satisying relationships.

Toni has spoken at the Happiness Conerence in Melbourneand Wired or Wonder in Sydney alongside the Dalai Lamaand Michael Leunig. Toni loves to see people leaving theroom armed with practical tools to enrich their lives, makingevery minute meaningul. Her topic or Wellness Day willbe gratitude, the wonder drug that makes people happier,less stressed, more hard-working and less complaining. Itsounds like a drug worth becoming addicted to!

Morning workshops1. More o the same...no thank you! withRichard Nelson and Ivan Frkovic

We will discuss where we have come rom; what thesystem looks like now; what it could look like in the uture.

Richard is the CEO o Queensland Alliance or Mental HealthInc., the peak body or the mental health community sector.Richard is committed to strengthening the sector and ispassionate about working towards a system that is ocussedon peoples recovery in their own homes and communities.

Ivan Frkovic is the National Operations Manager or AtercareQueensland and past Director o Community Mental Health,

State Department o Communities. Ivan is a key supporter oorganizations dedicated to community inclusion.

2. Voice hearing with Kelly Sumner

The Hearing Voices movement views voice hearing as avalid and unique experience, in which each voice hearersown experience is central. A Mental Health RecoveryWorker with Communiys Personal Helpers and Mentorsprogram, Kelly Sumner will present a workshop on voicehearing, with inormation, activities and strategies orpeople who hear voices, their amily, riends and carers,and proessionals working with people who hear voices.

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1. More o the same...nothank you!

2. Voice hearing

3. Choir o Unheard Voices

4. Working with people romdierent cultural backgrounds

5. PATH

6. Understanding the underlyingissues behind addictions

7. Tools or wellbeing/PeerZone 8. Inclusion strategies

9. Forgiveness

10. Connection and contentment

11. Story kioskthe pros andcons o telling your story

12. WRAP

13. Working or wellbeing in anera o corporatisation

14. Finding your voice

15. What happened to all the jobsand how social entrepreneurshipcan help

16. NIA

17. Alcohol and other drugsthe eects on health and other

areas o our lives and stageso change

18. Happiness or amilies andcarers

19. How to help your brain

20. Challenges or the homeless

21. Hope

22. Forgiveness

23. eCPR

Morning workshops Aternoon Workshops

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

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

3. Choir o Unheard Voices with Margie Ward

Choir o Unheard Voices began in 2008 and has or the past ve

years brought the joy o singing and a place to belong to people

who experience mental illness.

Choir o Unheard Voices presents an interactive session in

singing or healing, singing or sel and singing or others.

Members o the choir will lead participants through a hands on

choir session to experience the power o singing and give them

an insight into what group singing can mean or the lives o not

only those who experience mental illness but or everyone.

4. Working with people rom dierent culturalbackgrounds with Harmony Place

Culture relates to deep aspects o individual and group lieand encompasses a variety o aspects. This workshop will

explore some o the barriers that people rom diversecultural backgrounds ace and how to address them.

Also, ocus is placed on the essence o becoming an eectivecross-cultural worker by refecting on some helpul strategies.

Harmony Place provides culturally sensitive services that

promote mental health and wellbeing or people rom diversecultural and language backgrounds across their liespan.

5. Planning Alternatives Tomorrows with Hope

(PATH) with Tania Schmakeit, Matt Armstrong and

Wendy Chandler

This workshop explores the use o Planning AlternativesTomorrows with Hope (PATH) and its relationship with the

personal journey o 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 acilitator and is passionate abouthow PATH can pave a way or people to re-story recovery.

This passion has led to the ocus group study with a

community o practice.

Wendy Chandler is the mother o a young man with multiple

impairments using the PATH tool both personally and proes-

sionally or over a decade and is a strong advocate o PATHwhen it comes to empowering and enhancing peoples lives.

Tania Schmakeit has worked alongside people experiencinghomelessness since 1993 and has a deep commitment to

human rights and social inclusion and recognises the poten-

tial o PATH as a process or generating new opportunities.

6. Understanding the underlying issues behindaddictions with George Patriki

The aim o this workshop is to help understand what drivesaddictive behaviours such as alcohol and other drugs. Whenwe realise that people are driven to meets their needs, weunderstand that they may choose unhealthy ways to do thatsuch as chemical abuse. We will then ocus on how to motivatea person to address the real problem o unmet needs.

George has a lived experience o being dependent on drugsand is committed to reaching out to people struggling withaddictive behaviours, particularly those with severe liecontrolling problems due to childhood trauma. Georgeworks as a court advocate and counsellor providingcommunity orums, seminars and recovery groups.

7. Tools or wellbeing (using the PeerZone model)with Jenny Speed

PeerZone explores recovery and whole o lie wellbeingwithin ve themes: understanding ourselves; empoweringourselves; working on our wellbeing; connecting to theworld; exploring our unique identities. PeerZone works on

three levels: it invites us to rebuild a more positive storyo our lives; it oers tools or wellbeing; and creates acommunity o mutual support.

Jenny Speed has worked or more than thirty years in healthadministration, planning and policy, disability and mentalhealth advocacy. Jenny is an activist with a strong commit-ment to social justice. She is currently working at SistersInside, an organisation providing support and advocacyor women and their children in the criminal justice system.Jenny is certied at all levels o Intentional Peer Support.

8. Inclusion strategies with Sue Treewick

Sue Treewicks workshop ocuses on inclusion throughpeer and sel-support, and on building networks so peoplewith disabilities have a voice and rightul place as valuedmembers o society. Sue will demonstrate how buildingnetworks and raising awareness through education canshow isolated people that they are valued and welcome incommunities. Initiatives providing fexible employment op-portunities will be presented, including Sues No Problemcleaning. These initiatives enable users to be supported togive back to society and to gain enhanced sel-esteem.

Sue suggests that an attitude o insight, orgiveness, shar-ing, empathy and vision is necessary to change the mentalhealth system to one which values all. This comes out o alived experience o wrongul institutionalization as a child inan adult acility with no hope o release. Sue understandsthe impact o this kind o experience.

9. Forgiveness with Robert Bland

Robert will acilitate a discussion on orgiveness in thejourney towards wellbeing.

Robert is the Proessor o Social Work at the University oQueensland. He is published widely in the area o socialwork and mental health practice. His research led to a

amily intervention program at the Princess Alexandrahospitala program implemented across Australia.Roberts past committee involvement includes the AASWMental Health Committee, the Practice Standards Commit-tee, and the Mental Health Council o Australia. He is pastPresident o the Australian Council o Heads o Schools oSocial Work, and board member o NGOs including An-glicare Tasmania, NEAMI National and Aspire. Robert is amember o the Anglican Community Services Commission.

10. Connection and contentment withJerey Johnson-Abdelmalik

Recovery is a vital concept that is growing and changingas we grow and change. It now means a lot more thanthe clinical denition o a return to a level o unctioning

in community. Many people now see it as a springboardto new lie, hope and joy, not Recovery but Discovery andWellbeing. The history o the idea o Recovery will be briefytraced, with an opportunity to explore a new dimensionhow connecting with our desire or happiness andcontentment can become the driver o our recovery.

Jerey Johnson-Abdelmalik is a researcher in socialinclusion with the Queensland University o Technology,working in community, who identies as a survivor odepression with a deep commitment to getting happy!

11. Story kioskthe pros and cons o telling yourstory with Christine Wall and Damian le Goullon

In the last couple o years there seems to have developed a

common myth that telling your story is therapeutic. This o-rum will provides a space or artists and writers to explore thevalue and risks o story telling. The panel will be acilitated byChristine Wall and Damian le Goullon rom A Place to Belong.It will eature the stories and experiences o adult participantso the RAW program. The RAW program assists adult learn-ers to nd the words they need, or story or or change.

Damian le Goullon is a Visual Arts and Drama teacherworking with homeless youth on community arts projectsor a decade.

Christine Wall is an adult learner who has used her passionor learning and art as a personal strategy to oset thedebilitating eects o depression.

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12. WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Planning)with Dee Jackson, Carissa Grifths,Fran Dagostino and Julie Hyland

This workshop provides an overview o the leading

international recovery program or mental health selmanagement and wellbeing generated by Mary EllenCopeland and her ellow peers.

This workshop includes an interactive session, ocussing ondaily wellness tools and activities that help us to eel better,reducing and eliminating emotional and physical diculties.

Julie is a clinical nurse with over 30 years experienceworking 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 orworking with people towards recovery and wellbeing.

Fran is a peer worker with Footprints and co-acilitates theWRAP Workshops and Power On Womens Wellbeing Group.

Carissa works in the Resident Recovery Program at

Footprints. She has a passion or group work and hasworked with diverse groups o people towards recovery.

Afternoon workshops13. Working or wellbeing in an era ocorporatisation with Lynda Shevellar, Owen Strongand Neil Barringham

Many o us hope to support inclusive and welcomingcommunities where people are assisted and can grow.

However the organisations we are involved with may become

so concerned with ormalisation, compliance and control thatour attempts to work or wellbeing in community are stifed

i not suocated! How can we work in this context? In this

workshop we will hear how A Place To Belong has negoti-

ated these orces and look at approaches we can use in ourvarious organisations to manage these dilemmas.

Lynda Shevellar is interested in how we create change: in ourcommunities, in our organisations and in ourselves. Lynda

works at The University o Queensland where she lectures

and researches in community development. She is a

member o the Operating Committee o A Place To Belong.

Owen Strong has spent many years in Anglican parish

ministry and was the coordinator or the Anglican Churchs

hospital chaplaincy team in Brisbane. Owen secured undingenabling the establishment o the Anglicare Mental Health

Project which over time became A Place To Belong. Owen is

a member o the Operating Committee o A Place To Belong.

Neil Barringham lives in inner-city Brisbane with his wie and

two sons. He works with A Place To Belong.

14. Finding your voice with Sarah Dunston

This workshop will explore how sensory awareness andvocal techniques can be used to acilitate eelings o well

being. Based on songs and techniques used in a popularweekly vocal group run through A Place to Belong thisworkshop aims to explore how eelings o wellness,happiness and joy can be enhanced through participationin group singing. No experience necessary!

Sarah Dunston is a perormer, music teacher and musictherapist in training. She has experience working in bothcommunity and acute mental health settings. Throughthese experiences, she has become aware o how singingas a group provides an authentic experience o inclusionand cohesion. I you love to sing, this workshop is or you.

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

Join Luke and a member o the Toowoomba Clubhouse as theyexplore the journey o what uture jobs will look like and why

we need to act now to invest in tomorrows innovation around

everything rom social procurement groups to 3D printing...

Luke Terry has been working in mental health, social enter-

prises, procurement and social bonds or eight years. In his

short time running the Toowoomba Clubhouse he has made

signicant inroads in creating employment or people living

with a mental illness.

16. NIA with Harmony Place

Nia is a un expressive movement practice that leaves youeeling energised and alive. It is a dance like no oneswatching workout that brings cardiovascular conditioning

and optimises whole body tness in ways that eel good.The name Nia comes rom an acronymnon-impact aerobics.Nia draws on the joy o dance, the fexibility o yoga, themindulness o meditation, the power o martial arts, the corestrength o pilates, and more.

17. Alcohol and other drugsthe eects on healthand other areas o our lives and stages o change

with George Patriki

Understand the main risks and consequences o alcohol andother drugs and receive inormation to encourage peopleusing these substances to move orward and improve theirquality o lie (optimal health), not just minimise the harm o

their substance abuse. We will also discuss the stages ochange and how people move orward slowly in their owntiming through phases. See workshop no.5 or inormationon George.

18. Happiness or amilies and carers

with Shidan Toloui-WallaceThis workshop is designed to address the needs and chal-lenges or amilies and carers, and presents strategies orchoosing happiness. Based on Dr. Timothy Sharps work,the workshop will explore six keys to happiness, includingclarity and optimism, building positive relationships andutilising your inner strength. There is no doubt thathappiness is something we can choose.

Shidan has 13 years o working experience in educationand training, and is currently an education coordinator/acilitator. Shidan has a great interest in serving hercommunity and her present position as a Carer Educatorat Arami Queensland presents an opportunity or her tocontinue to contribute in a meaningul way to a eld that

means so much to her.

19. How to help your brain with Monique Downie

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

Monique is a qualied Social Worker who runs a small busi-ness named Our Future Focus. Her business aims to assistpeople to become more connected in their communities in

whichever way works best or them.

20. Challenges or the homeless with

Darren McGhee

This session will be highly interactive as the reasons orhomelessness and lack o aordable housing are discussed,experiences shared and responses to these issues explored.

Darren has worked in community services or over 15 yearsand has held leadership positions with Micah Projects andthe Queensland Council o Social Services coordinatinghomelessness service. Darren is current manager o theSalvation Army Youth Outreach Service.

Saturday, October 26th, 2013, 9am-4.30pm. Registration, tea and coffee at 8.30amJoin us at St Aidans Anglican Girls School, 11 Ruthven St., Corinda, Brisbane