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Amanda Waegeli - The Great Debate: To Re Awaken or Stay Asleep

To reawaken is the act of awaking from sleep. A revival of interest or

attention. A recognition, realization, or coming into awareness of
something, either personal or as a community. And yet, with this

revival and opportunity for growth comes discomfort; the painful

awareness of how messed up the world is and that some
relationships can not be sustained. So why rock the boat? Perhaps

we’re better off not making a fuss about reawakening. Perhaps it’s better to accept things
as they are and to try and find some peace in our slumber. Haven’t we suffered enough?

Facilitated by Amanda, two debating teams will explore these issues and present their
arguments to either reawaken or to stay asleep.

Amanda is a lived experience practioner, who has worked in the Mental Health sector in
various roles for over ten years. She uses her own lived experiences of mental distress

and personal recovery to influence change and improvement in mental health practice.
She has her own successful private business; Mental Health Recovery Training and

Consultancy.

Klaire McClorey and Kane Spooner - Power Threat Meaning Framework

Over a five-year period, a group of senior

psychologists from the UK, in collaboration with
service users and campaigners, have developed the

Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) as an
alternative model to traditional psychiatric diagnosis

for making sense of people's life challenges. The
Framework doesn't just apply to people who have

been engaged with mental health services - it applies
to all of us! PTMF summarises and integrates a great deal of evidence about the role of

various kinds of power in people’s lives, the kinds of threats that misuse of power pose to
us and the ways we have learnt to respond to those threats. This workshop will provide a

brief overview of the model and an exercise to help you get a taste for how it might be

applied in practice.
Klaire McClorey and Kane Spooner were Social Work students completing their final

placement with the HUMANE Clinic at the time of ReAwaken. During their placement

they attended a two-day PTMF workshop with co-authors of the model, Lucy Johnstone
and John Cromby.

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