What Is Radical Mental Health? Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But, stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that dignity. Chimamanda Adiche Radical mental health means conceiving of, and engaging with, […]
You Are Not Alone
Welcome! What you hold in your hands is a rough toolkit of ideas and visions. It is meant to be shared, discussed and used for action as the Occupy* movement evolves. This booklet is the result of a bunch of dedicated people working together, friends and strangers, online and in person, in living rooms and […]
Copyleft and Disclaimer
Copyleft and Disclaimer This guide is written in the spirit of mutual aid and peer support. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Attribution – you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the authors, but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your […]
Intro
Welcome to the web home of the Mindful Occupation booklet! Last year, a group of us who have years of experience practicing peer-based community mental health support got together to compile a manual for organizers and participants in the #occupy movement. This is what came out of our work. We believe that there is an […]