What might you make, and what might you not be able to make, in the company of another person? Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandewe Can you enjoy yourself with someone else? Spend time drawing, writing, doodling, playing or making with various art supplies in the company of Nicola, while she reads to you from her book. What to Expect: ‘You’re trying to work out what’s stopping you enjoying each other’s company’, says psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on a good outcome for therapy. Her book Unlike the Heart explores her experience of anxiety via an interrogation of the workings of talking therapy and medication. Nicola Redhouse is a writer who is interested in the ways we think about and treat mental pain, and the capacity for talking therapy to make real and lasting change, and for words and communications to hold subterranean secrets. Talk if you like, or let the conversation be guided by your creative endeavours. What to Expect: Join Daniel in a collaborative visual conversation focusing on your current emotional landscape by constructing and reconstituting his photographs and found imagery. Drawing on his own experience with self-injury and self-harm, Daniel finds language in photography in the absence of words (and it helps). Daniel Reganĭaniel found his voice through pictures. Do you have a project coming up that you’re allowing yourself to be vulnerable through? Discuss honouring our stories, respecting our boundaries and creating brilliance from a dark place. What to Expect: Come and discuss with Dani what it means to draw on your lived experience to create art. They find catharsis and healing through exploring their experiences artistically, making sense of their life as words form and art is made. Dani Leeverĭani Leever uses their lived experiences with OCD and anxiety to create art whether it be through the written word, music or collage. What to Expect: Experience the world as Clem does through an immersive audio experience, followed by a conversation using sensory elements to explore and explode myths and misconceptions about Autism, and how it has shaped Clem’s life in powerful ways. Her memoir, Late Bloomer, celebrates the realities of Autistic experience and considers the “what if” moments throughout her life through the prism of late-diagnosed self-knowledge. It wasn’t until Clem was diagnosed as Autistic, at age 36, that things clicked into focus. Clem BastowĬlem Bastow grew up feeling like she’d missed a key memo on human behaviour. Please note: Anna will be appearing digitally for this event. What to Expect: Join Anna for a conversation about the words we use to articulate the psychology and physiology of mental health, how they restrict us, and how bringing poetry into medicine can make everyone’s life a bit easier. THE CONVERSATIONALISTS: Anna Spargo RyanĪnna is a perpetually anxious writer who uses lyricism to offer new language describing the experience of life with psychosis and other serious mental illness. To participate in this event you must be 18+. What if you say the wrong thing? What if you make too much eye contact? Or not enough? What if nothing is spoken at all? Or your conversational partner is unlike anyone you have ever met before?Īwkward Conversations is a program of one-to-one conversations that extends what constitutes a conversation. Sometimes the best conversations are awkward.
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