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Understanding Recovery
Understanding Recovery
Training Manuals
* Special Offer 20% discount - Buy the three modules together and save ₤84 *
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Understanding Recovery Training Manuals
Understanding Recovery
Module One - Making Recovery Happen
Designed to enable professionals, users and carers to understand the concepts that underpin the notion of recovery
Module Two - Developing Peer Support Workers
Find out how to build a recovery environment within which people who use services can discover who they are and start the journey to reclaiming their lives
Module Three - Working with Voices
Practical exercises and tools useful in communicating and working with people who hear voices
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An Hour of Power
An hour of power brings together Dorothy Rowe and Ron Coleman in a dynamic one-hour session discussing depression and psychosis. More information and how to buy here
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* NEW* Books
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Recovery: An Holistic Approach
Alison Reeves life approach to reclaiming your life from times of madness, through a journey of self-discovery, and ultimately, finding some sense of ease with oneself in the world. More information and how to buy here
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Improving the likelihood of healing and recovery
Healing schizophrenia using medication wisely by John Watkins
A refreshing challenge to the widely-held belief that most people diagnosed with schizophrenia will require long-term neuroleptic treatment, and that recovery is relatively unusual without it. This new book shows how a holistic approach which treats body, mind and soul can significantly improve the likelihood of healing and recovery, even for those with a long history of schizophrenia.
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Important new publication
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry Edited by Peter Stastny / Peter Lehmann
This important new publication reflects current approaches to self-help and non-psychiatric alternatives in cases of acute emotional problems, as well as pathways to treatment that respect human rights.
read more...
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New Courses
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Working with Psychosis: A One Day workshop
Presented by Ron Coleman and Mike Smith and Sponsored by the University of Abertay, Dundee. 26th August 2008 at the University of Aberday, Dundee. Proceeds from the training event will be donated to the Scottish Hearing Voices Network. More information here.
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"Making Recovery Champions" Drumoig, St Andrews, Scotland, A Five Day Residential workshop
15th– 19th September 2008: - Now accredited by Abertay University, Dundee (levels 9 & 11) more details here "If I could rate it as a ten, I would. This is the most enlightening workshop, a worthwhile experience of a lifetime and I'd recommend this workshop to anyone who works in mental health field". Course attendant. Book here
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Working with and Talking to Voices
22nd September to 25th September 2008 - New 4 day residential course with Ron Coleman, featuring Dirk Corstens & Eleanor Longden and the voice dialogue methods, as used by Rufus May in the Channel 4 drama-documentary "The Doctor Who Hears Voices".
If you wish to to ensure a place on this course you can reserve one now, Online booking here. Downloadable print version of the booking form here
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Working to Recovery
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Welcome to the Working to Recovery website
Working to Recovery Ltd, is a small, but dynamic and creative training and consultancy organisation. Born out of the need to promote recovery for all, our Directors, Ron Coleman and Karen Taylor have worked to establish a company that offers training and assistance to suit the needs of all our customers and clients. Based in Scotland and specialising in Mental Health practice, we work right across the UK and the rest of the world responding to many different training needs. Ron and Karen are particularly well known for their work on Recovery and Psychosis and also specialise in ‘Self harm, Personality disorder, Risk training, Person Centred Planning’ and mental well being.
‘Working to Recovery’ have developed, ‘Training the Trainer’, packages to be delivered within organisations to professionals, service users and carers and are experienced at delivering different kinds of consultancy solutions including using PATH, open-space events, user led evaluation, designing of new services, change management and learning sets. We are also experienced in wider community consultation including public meetings, planning, designing and managing conferences.
Karen and Ron are also the directors of our publishing company, ‘P & P Press’, and have published workbooks on voices, self-harm and recovery, as well as psychiatric first aid and Ron’s own book, 'Recovery- An Alien Concept'. These books, along with additional reading, as well as DVD's may be purchased via this website.
For further information please contact us
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Contact us
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Working to Recovery Ltd
Company number SC256982,
VAT registration number 814599011
28 Habost,
Port of Ness,
Isle of Lewis,
HS2 0TG
Tel: (+ 44) 0185 181 0060
info@workingtorecovery.co.uk
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Living Recovery
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Ron and Karens Blog
See our Blog page and find out more about our work in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Palestine and throughout Europe - our lives on the the Isle of Lewis and reports on our latest training courses and consultancy work.
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Ron Coleman Sponsored Head Shave, 24th September, 2008
Ron has committed himself to having his beloved hair chopped to raise money to assist voice hearers and workers from unfunded hearing voices networks such as Palestine to attend the annual INTERVOICE meeting to be held in Perth, Australia in November 2008. Ron will attend his favourite Hairdressing salon in Dundee, Scotland on the 24th of September where the “shaving” will take place, administered by Ron’s' stylist Sharon. A video recording of the event will be placed on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Click here for more information on how you can sponsor Ron or donate directly to the Scottish Hearing Voices Network (who are holding the raised money) via their secure online charity giving page here.
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Recovery in Mental Health - Continuing Professional Development
"Making Recovery Happen" course accredited
Tayside Institute for Health Studies at the University of Abertay Dundee, has developed in conjunction with Working to Recovery Ltd., two theory and two practice modules at levels 7and 9 to meet the educational needs of staff and carers working within recovery-based practice. As far as we are aware, these accredited modules are unique within the UK.
Find out more here
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Choice, Ownership and People
Recovery is essentially a personal thing and as such is experienced differently by each individual. There are however some stepping stones that are consistent amongst people who successfully recover. More here
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What is Recovery?
"I believe that recovery is a liberating experience, which is experienced through the politicisation of the self within the wider society." Read Ron Coleman´s introduction to recovery here
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Scottish Hearing Voices Network Consultation
Ron is on the committee of the SHVN. We have launched a 3 month consultation exercise to find out what kinds of support people who hear voices in Scotland would like to have. Find our more here
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Ron and Karens 2008 Diary
Check out Ron and Karen´s training and consultancy work diary for 2008/9 here
and their and conference speaking engagements here
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An interview with Ron Coleman
"I think, within psychosis, recovery is not seen as a possibility; what is seen as the best argument has always been that what we do is that we ‘maintain’ people in a sick role. And so, calling recovery an ‘alien’ concept was really about challenging the establishments on recovery ..."
In-depth interview with Ron Coleman (with contributions form Karen Taylor) conducted with members of the Democratic Psychiatry movement from Italy. Read it here
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