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Talks, Workshop, & Training Offerings From The Icarus Project
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Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - February 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs

Talks, Workshop, & Training Offerings From The Icarus Project
Section: About Us Want to bring The Icarus Project to your campus, organization, or community to talk about mental health and collective well-being? That’s great, because we’d love to spend time with you! Our offerings break down into three distinct groupings: talks, trainings, and workshops. Talks give your group an opportunity to hear in-depth stories and insights from our staff and advisory board members about their personal experiences and community organizing efforts. Workshops provide a more interactive experience, in which we share insights to guide dialogue, exchange ideas, and provide practical tools...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - February 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs

The First Mad Maps Guide is Here!
Section: Articles we’re pleased to announce that Madness and Oppression: Paths to Personal Transformation and Social Transformation is now available for free download or purchase via AK Press. We’re so excited to share these with you! Let us know what you think at agustina@theicarusproject.net.  (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - November 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs

Our Voices Heard: Icarus @ the Arcus Center Global Prize finals
Section: Articles This month, the Icarus Project got to bring the story of our organizing to an audience of organizers and students at the 2015 Global Prize for Transformative Social Justice Leadership finals at the Arcus Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Agustina Vidal, our Resource Development Coordinator, and Elliott Fukui, an Advisory Board Member, presented stories and ideas from the Icarus community and engaged in reflective dialogue and relationship building with social justice organizers from around the globe.As a member of Icarus, you already know that emotional distress and mental health issues can affect anyon...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - November 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs

Black Lives Matter
Section: Articles The tragedy at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston is another event demonstrating the relentless racism against Black people, who are disproportionately targeted by police brutality and social violence. White people must participate in fighting racism and ensure that dialogue about this event centers the experiences of being Black in anti-Black America. These racist murders at a historical site of Black resistance are indeed also about mental health. But we should not be primarily concerned with the supposed mental health status of racists who attack Black people and terrorize Black communities. Ins...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - June 19, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs

A Garden with Forking Paths: pushing back against a new fundamentalism in recovery and radical mental health, by Tim Kelly
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Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - November 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Icarus Project Source Type: blogs

Welcome to The Icarus Project.
Section: Articles The Icarus Project is a support network and education project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness. We advance social justice by fostering mutual aid practices that reconnect healing and collective liberation. We transform ourselves through transforming the world around us. (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - September 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs

Call for Stories: Intergenerational Trauma, Oppression, Hope and Resilience
We want to hear your stories. We are looking for stories about dealing, struggling, and coping with intergenerational trauma, oppression, or both. We aim to receive stories that can share the pain of our struggles and that also offer to others hope and tools for resilience and transforming the world around us. The stories will be featured in our upcoming ‘’Mad Maps’’ publication. read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - August 14, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Agustina Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

Last Call: Madness and Oppression Art Show
The Icarus Project will be launching a new digital gallery on our site showcasing visual art that explores the themes of "Madness and Oppression: Resistance and Resilience." If you'd like your artwork to be included, please send your submission no later than August 20th. read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - August 5, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Agustina Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

Gallery Gachet, The Icarus Project, and Mad Pride 2014: Reportback from the Wilderness of the Soul
From the sidewalk, standing at the door, a person cannot see the details of the work that is displayed there, or notice the how the pictures and drawings in the current show, Mad Cartographies: Wilderness of the Soul, are hung by hat pins and magnets set atop the heads of nails. The forms on paper and canvas, in wood and photo, aren't visible. The stories they tell are quiet from the streetview. read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - July 23, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: FaithRR Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

Current Project: Community-Based Participatory Research and Icarus Local Groups
"I would like to learn more about the ways members are working individually and collectively to carve out creative spaces for thinking differently about mental health, some strengths and challenges engaging with groups (both on and off-line), and how your chapter discusses alternative ways to understand extreme mental states. I am also particularly interested in the role that technology plays in bringing groups together and providing a forum to express emotions and thoughts with others in your community." - E. Fletcher, Institute of Medical Humanities doctoral  student   read more (Source: The Icar...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - July 19, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

Survey: Mad Parenting
Parenthood can be a uniquely isolating experience under the best of circumstances, but for those of us from underrepresented groups within the dominant culture, parenthood can be fraught  with, what often feels like, insurmountable difficulties.  We would like to reach out to our community again for help in further defining what it is that mad parents and parents of mad children need to form solid communities of support and to gain skills to help each other navigate these often treacherous waters. read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - July 18, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Agustina Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

Mad Pride, Creative Maladjustment, and Mad Cartographies
Section: Articles The Icarus Project has long been associated with the Mad Pride movement, though individual members may or may not associate themselves with the word Mad, or feel any particular sense of pride in relation to experiences of what might be called madness. Organizationaly, The Icarus Project has edged away from the language of Mad Pride, in an effort to be inclusive of those who may not identify as Mad.While the politics of Mad Pride, as a construct and as a movement, run deep, there is something to be said in affirming the value of difference and celebrating mad survivors while honoring those who have be...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - July 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Icarus Project Source Type: blogs

Mad Pride, Creative Maladjustment, and Mad Cartographies
The Icarus Project has long been associated with the Mad Pride movement, though individual members may or may not associate themselves with the word Mad, or feel any particular sense of pride in relation to experiences of what might be called madness. Organizationaly, The Icarus Project has edged away from the language of Mad Pride, in an effort to be inclusive of those who may not identify as Mad. read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - July 3, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs