alternative treatments

Spa Night Friday January 21st 2001

admin — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:41:49 -0500

Join us for a tantalizing Spa Night! On Friday January 21st from 530-830pm
at the Quaker Friends Meeting House on 43 Center St. in Northampton is an
opportunity for you to come relax while also supporting social justice
work.

Spa night is an opportunity for YOU to get a relaxing and affordable
massage, acupuncture treatment, craniosacral treatment, shamanic reading,
and more! Tickets start at just $5 and an unlimited pass to get as many
treatments as you want cost %50.

100% of the proceeds will be going to help the Freedom Center, a
peer-led, support and activism community run by and for people labeled

Starting Hearing Voices Groups Training at RLC

admin — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:20:13 -0400

Recovery Learning Community is sponsoring a "Starting Hearing Voices Groups" training with Oryx Cohen, Gail Hornstein, Ron Coleman (UK Hearing Voices Network) and Paul Baker (UK Hearing Voices Network). This is a great opportunity to learn about how to create a hearing voices group in your area and become a hearing voices group facilitator.

Dates for the training are November 12th & 19th and December 3rd & 10th. Download the training application here. For more info, contact

Oryx Cohen

Recovery Learning Community

187 High St., Suite 303

Holyoke, MA 01040

Fax: 413-536-5466 (attn: Oryx)

Email: oryx@westernmassrlc.org

Wellness Resources

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:23:48 -0400

Freedom Center Support Group meets on Thursday nights from

7-9 PM at 43 Center Street, Northampton, MA.

http://www.freedom-center.org/weekly-drop-support-group-thursdays

Freedom Center Acupuncture MONDAYS

430 pm -6pm 43 Center St. left side entrance up stairs, second floor downtown Northampton, MA

http://freedom-center.org/free-weekly-acupuncture-clinic-mondays-4-30-open-public

Coming Off Drugs Guide Now In Spanish! Guia Reduccion de Drugs Psiquiatricas Disponible en Castellano!

admin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:04:46 -0500

The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, published by The Icarus Project and Freedom Center, is now available in spanish - thanks to the dedicated translation work of Agustina Vidal from Buenos Aires Argentina.

Major UK Study Shows No Evidence For Forced Drugging

admin — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:48:28 -0500

A major new study in latest Journal of Advanced Nursing says there is no clincal evidence in research that forced drugging helps people. Instead, the practice is "taken for granted." According to the BBC, "Very few rigorous investigations of the use of coerced medication have been done despite it being widespread, the Journal of Advanced Nursing reported.

The dearth of evidence is "unacceptable" and more should be done to find alternatives, the team said"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7764512.stm

Yoga Journal Article on FC w/ Teacher Chaya Grossberg

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:23:16 -0500

The widely read Yoga Journal magazine, available across the US, recently had an article about Freedom Center's weekly yoga class, quoting teacher Chaya Grossberg and FC co-founder Oryx Cohen. Download and read the article here.

Freedom Center, Arise for Social Justice, Out Now Oppose PostPartum Depression Screening Program

lee — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:19:26 -0500

Dear MotherWoman,
We are writing to address our concern about your legislation on postpartum depression screenings. We propose that Motherwoman drop this legislation because we believe in the long-run it will do more harm than good.

Under the George Bush Jr administration there was an initiative called
“The New Freedom Initiative” which proposed mandatory mental health

Hearing Voices Group Tuesdays 4:30 in Holyoke

admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:17:45 -0400

Every Tuesday now, 4:30 to 6 PM at the Recovery Learning Center, 187 High St., Suite 303, Holyoke MA

Hearing Voices groups are popular and fairly widespread in Europe, specially England. Hearing Voices groups do not pathologize the experience of hearing voices or experiencing other altered states, instead they ask the voice hearer: What do the voices mean to you? Join us for the first Hearing Voices group east of Wisconsin and share and get support from others with similar experiences! *Co-sponsored by the Center for Human
Development, RLC and the Freedom Center.*

Find out more about the Hearing Voices movement:

Free Weekly Acupuncture Clinic Mondays 5:15 Open to Public - also Weds in Holyoke/Greenfield

admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:38:51 -0500

Freedom Center brings you FREE Auricular Acupuncture Clinic

Monday, Northampton, 5:15-6:00, at the Owl and Raven Community Space, 2 Conz St located in the Mapelwood shops below Chameleon Salon

Wednesdays Holyoke, 3:00-4:00pm 187 High St. #303 Holyoke (with RLC)

Wednesdays Greenfield, 12:00-1:00pm 55 Federal St Greenfield (with Recover Project)

SHARC Position Paper on Mandated Treatment and Harm Reduction

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:27:09 -0400

A statement written for the Statwide Harm Reduction Coalition on why mandated treatment is not consistent with Harm Reduction philosophy, developed by Caty Simon and Will Hall.