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face of a heretic: someone willing to challenge an orthodoxy so flawed that even its

authors call it out as bullshit. ReAwaken Australia's presenters and participants
challenged that current paradigm, and its dominance, with a ream of well-founded
scientific papers in their hands, personal experience in their voices, compassion in their

hearts.

From indigenous women's stories about today's broken system to a plea to rehumanise

the impact of trauma, from the suicide-deadly serious to the downright comedic, from
the power-point to the coffee machine, this was a living re-writing of not just the DSM
but of each life that attended. I shit you not - find out when the next time Oryx, Matt,

Stephanie and PJ and their disorder dissenters, their analysis agnostics get together and
make sure you're there. You'll benefit from the fresh air.

Rob is a poet, writer, performer,

documentary film maker and stage
director. His works have been published

by SAWC, Heinemann Books, Oxford
University Press, Friendly Street Poets,
Wakefield Press, The Weekend Australian

Magazine, The Broadkill Review, eMags
in Australia and overseas and on travel
blogs. Rob has taught Professional

Writing, Poetry, Short Story, Creative Non
-fiction, Film, Stage and Memoir writing
at various South Australian tertiary

institutions, in workshops for the Australian Writers' Guild and the South Australian
Writers' Centre and for community groups. With his partner Sue, Rob runs Rosebud

Writing Workshops in the Adelaide Hills. He continues to write and assists other to self-
publish. www.robdekok.com

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