Acupuncture is cancelled this Monday due to space and clinician issues. Acupuncture will be held as usual the following week, 9/3/07 Sorry for the inconvenience. Please join us for yoga Monday evening at 7:15 in the back of the Somatic Center located at 32 Masonic Street.

Survivor-Professional Mental Health Open Forum

 

Members of Windhorse Associates and Freedom Center are invited to an open forum discussion Tuesday August 21st 6:00-8:0pm. Please call or email for location and details.

This is a follow up to the powerful July forum, and a step towards making these forums monthly. Future forums will be open to the broader community.

Please come if you are interested in having your voice heard, listening respectfully to others, and inquiring more deeply into your own beliefs and assumptions. The forum will be committed to group safety, and honesty and depth are the shared goals.

For Immediate Release: Escape From Psychiatry: A Protest and Bed Push Against Abuse in the Mental
Health System
July 29, 2pm Cooley Dickinson Hospital

 

Download Flier here.

 

Survivor-Professional Mental Health Open Forum

 

Members of Windhorse Associates and Freedom Center are invited to an open forum discussion Tuesday July 10 6:00-8:0pm. Please call or email for location and details.

Please come if you are interested in having your voice heard, listening respectfully to others, and inquiring more deeply into your own beliefs and assumptions. The forum will be facilitated by a third party facilitator committed to group safety, and honesty and depth are the shared goals.

Please come advocate for mental health personal care attendants:

 

June 24 Facilitation Training

June 24th in Northampton the Recovery Learning Center and Freedom Center are offering a 3-hour Facilitation Training, led by Freedom Center organizer and Icarus Project staff Will Hall.

The 5th Annual Art Show of the Western Mass Training Consortium

FLUX: a group exhibit of the 2007 Career Initiatives Artisits: Virginia Harlow, Larry Ditman, Janice Sorensen

We are privileged to tell you about another free yoga class! This class is funded by Western Mass Training Consortium. The class is lead by Chaya Grossberg, a

Thursday, May 24th. 4:30-6pm in the Quaker Space. 43 Center Street Northampton Come for a day of relaxation. Bring a talent, cold drink, snack or willing pair of hands to exchange back massages. This is a time to rest, relax, get out of the hot sun and enjoy good company.

You are invited to the following presentations by the award-winning
and nationally recognized Dr. Ed Knight, Ph. D., Vice President of
Recovery, Rehabilitation, and Mutual Supports at ValueOptions in
Colorado.

Dialogue on Empowerment (Providers and Consumer/Survivors)

1-2:30 at MBHP, 489 Whitney Avenue, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Holyoke,
MA

People living with mental health diagnoses and providers of mental
health services will engage in a semi-structured dialogue on issues of
empowerment and disempowerment.


Building a Social Movement (Consumer/Survivors and Allies only)

3:30 - 5:00 at Quaker Space, 2nd Floor, 43 Center St., Northampton, MA

 

A second Freedom Center free Weekly yoga class will
meet at Forbes library, Thursdays 3:30pm.  This class
is free and open to the public.  Mark your calendar,
we will start next week.  Spread the word.

for more info:  www.freedom-center.org
www.chayagrossberg.com

 

 Windhorse is sponsoring Dr. Dan Fisher, a world-reknowned speaker on recovery, at the Unitarian Church 5-7pm on April 5. Join us there!

The Freedom Center in Northampton, MA is sponsoring an additional support group, on Thursday evenings in downtown Northampton, MA at 5:30, that focuses on drug withdrawal (our regular 7pm also includes drug withdrawal as a focus, but covers other topics as well). The group has been meeting intermittently, so please contact terramuggus AT freedom-center DOT org or benzo AT freedom-center DOT org for more details.