Mental Health Camp » schedule http://www.mentalhealthcamp.org Erasing Stigma and Exploring Possibilities with Social Media - Second Annnual Mental Health Camp (July 10, 2010, Vancouver, British Columbia Canada) Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:32:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Schedule http://www.mentalhealthcamp.org/schedule/ http://www.mentalhealthcamp.org/schedule/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:43:53 +0000 hummingbird604 http://www.mentalhealthcamp.org/?p=83 7:30 – 8:25 Doors Open 8:30 – 9:10 Session wrangling 9:15 – 9:55 Isabella Mori and Raul Pacheco-Vega
Keynote: Social media and mental health   Room 1   Room 2 10:00 – 10:55 Sandra Kiume
Mental health marketing using social media 10:00 – 11:20 Lorraine Murphy
Anonymity and pseudonymity: Freedoms, dangers and responsibilities 11:05 – 12:00 Darren Barefoot
Brainstorming Session: Forming an Online Mental Health Community 11:30 – 12:15 Taryn Gunter
Tales from a Rookie, Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love to Blog 12:15 – 1:30 LUNCH 1:30 – 2:25 Keely Kolmes
Social Networking, Visibility, and the Therapeutic Alliance 1:30 – 2:50 Terra aka ZoeyJane
Stigma – Challenging Perceptions 2:35 – 3:30 Karen Quinn Fung
Mental Health and Cultural Sensitivity – Services and Stigma in Vancouver’s Ethnic Communities 3:00 – 3:30 Airdrie Miller
Error 404 – Page Not Found 3:30 – 3:45 BREAK (Coffee, mingling) 3:45 – 4:25 Isabella Mori
Blogging Ourselves Home 3:45 – 4:50 Pete Quily
ADHD – Busting the Myths, Breaking the Stigma, Showing Reality, One Post and Tweet at a Time 4:45 – 5:15 Raul Pacheco-Vega
Telling Your Personal Story via Social Media Tools as a Method to Cope with Mild Depression Associated with Academic Pressure 5:20 – 5:40 Christine Rondeau
Yoga Nidra: 10 Min Relaxation Technique for Your Brain 5:40 – 6:00 Conclusions, and next steps ]]> http://www.mentalhealthcamp.org/schedule/feed/ 4 Call for Speakers http://www.mentalhealthcamp.org/call-for-speakers/ http://www.mentalhealthcamp.org/call-for-speakers/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:20:49 +0000 moritherapy http://www.mentalhealthcamp.org/?p=18 This is a call for presenters at MentalHealthCamp.

We don’t have our schedule completely worked out yet but the idea is to have sessions anywhere between 40 and 85 minutes. We will have between 6 and 10 sessions.

If you would like to present, please contact us and send us a short proposal, containing your name(s) and email, an overview over what you would like to discuss (no more than 200 words), a bio (no more than 100 words), and indicating your social media presence (e.g. your blog, twitter address, etc.)

The general questions we’d like to address, according to our soon-to-be finalized press release (thanks, Cathy!) are

  • How can blogging help decrease the stigma of mental health?
  • How does someone with a mental illness navigate the waters of anonymity in the transparent world of social media?
  • How is the journaling that happens in blogging similar to or different from journaling for healing?
  • How can social media participants with mental health issues help each other?

Here are some specific topics we thought might be of interest. As of today, March 10, some of these already have “dibs” – we’ve indicated where that is the case. However, if there is a topic to which you would like to contribute, please let us know, and maybe there is still room.

  • Depression
  • Anonymity (Lorraine, @unsuicide) – maybe also talk about the vulnerability that comes with putting your story “out there” even when the blogger is anonymous.
  • Stigma, myth and activism
  • Writing (update – Isabella would like to do something about that)
  • Addiction
  • ADD (Pete Quily)
  • Information production and information consumption – on the consumption side, credibility and reliability issues (@unsuicide?)
  • Family members with mental illness
  • Medications
  • Online commiseration and community building

Want to get even more specific? Here is part of the summary of suggested topics from Isabella’s blog.

  • Blogging and language; i.e. the language of “mental illness” vs. “mental health” or “personal growth”; how does language stigmatize?
  • What problems has “being out” caused in personal and professional life?
  • How to deal with commenters/bloggers making “antipsychiatry” suggestions (”don’t take medication” or “you don’t need to see a professional”)
  • How can the blogging culture subvert the dominant therapeutic paradigm?
  • How to deal with trolls on mental health blogs
  • How long to blog about mental health? When you reach the point of truly getting over your problems, what happens next?
  • What happens when a person’s distress increases due to blogging (as in peer-reinforced delusions, one-upmanship in “I’m more depressed than you are” virtual community interactions, internet addiction etc)
  • Does a feeling of exposure sometimes arise which can go beyond discomfort and become crippling?
  • Many famous people have been bipolar or unipolarly depressives. I would like blogs to mention more about the amazing visions of people like Edgar Allen Poe and the long list of others who have given without focusing on their disorder.

AN UPDATE on speaker proposals is here.

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