ENUSP Empowerment Seminar back home
Door: Jolijn
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11 December 2013 | Nederland, Eindhoven
I have arrived home. I had a good journey from Bucharest, Romania back to my new home in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. I am reflecting on the Empowerment Seminar of the European Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP, www.enusp.org ). It was again a good experience to meet so many peers, and to work on a better future. I truly hope our new action-plan will work out. I am somehow in a philosophical mood, and I feel like there is something not finished. I would have loved to have more time to share our own ideas, I have many ideas. And yet, maybe this is just exactly an interesting point; that is why we, users and survivors of psychiatry, really need ENUSP, as a platform for ourselves and sharing our actions, learning from each other, and strengthen, and being united even stronger. This stresses the need for an active network, to empower all the work for the human rights of users and survivors of psychiatry that is done across Europe. That is exactly why we, ENUSP, have to take care of Communication, and obviously any activity costs money, so also Fundraising is important. I have promised I would take care of the ENUSP website, and help in fundraising. As a person, I feel that ENUSP is very special to me: meeting the members is truly empowering on itself. It’s a larger circle of people, who all pioneer and work on the same goal to improve the lives of persons with psychosocial disabilities. And a re-quote from the Romanian organization Orizonturi “When you bring more heads together, you get more answers”- Cindy Kent (which also corresponds with the concept of Family Group Conferencing and my alternative model to avoid forced psychiatric treatments). Together can be stronger than alone, and that is exactly why ENUSP is needed. I am inspired to work for ENUSP, because I want to know what is happening in other countries, and I want to hear it from the user perspective, I want the expertise of those who know what mental health care really is like. That is why I commit myself to ENUSP. We all know that psychiatry is doing bad things everywhere, and rather rarely is really supportive. And we know that tremendous improvement is possible, and relatively easy too: by listening to people for example, and giving them legal capacity. Within ENUSP there is quite some expertise on various Good practices, such as on local/national User organization, Personal Ombudsman, (Intentional) Peer Support, User-led clubhouses, Runaway houses, Family Group Conferencing, Open Dialogue, and many more. I would like to keep on learning more about Good Practices. I guess we all do. These initiatives all come together in ENUSP.
ENUSP needs commitment and support.
www.enusp.org
ENUSP needs commitment and support.
www.enusp.org
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14 December 2013 - 17:14
Lupe:
I felt so well with all you in Bucharest. I'll do my best in order to consolidate Enusp. Thank you for taking care of our website
Lupe
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