Early Eurostar to Brussels, then Leuven, to give a fairly radical talk for the big launch of #Coconuts ❤️🥳👀

Many exciting things are happening. Watch this space. #ACreativeTransformation @headwayuk.bsky.social @uclh.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social Coconuts, Belgium University of Messina, Sicily and more. #acquiredbraininjury #recovery #psychosis #organicpsychosis #art #community

Nevertheless, she persisted (see text in the picture)…

In the midst of #ACreativeTransformation in Manchester with workshop leader Eleanor May Blackburn. We all wrote something unique, but were united in our earnestness to express ourselves, given the opportunity, the stimulus and freedom to say what we want. A special moment. Report out soon🌟 #writing

Are you interested in #AI healthcare technology, #psychosis and #acquiredbraininjury? We are running an experimental workshop discussing these things with #ACreativeTransformation at Birmingham University on May 19. Very limited spaces, sign up now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/act-2-in-b...

ACT 2 in Birmingham: The brain, psychosis and AI technology

An experimental workshop for clinicians, researchers, people with lived experience

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I am at Euston station heading up 🔝 for #ACreativeTransformation in Manchester! A writing workshop for young people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury. Epic 🌟☄️✨

I am absolutely thrilled to have a feature in @headwayuk.bsky.social's Spring newsletter. This is about my story of recovery, my work with #ACreativeTransformation and how I advocate using the arts to support living with acquired brain injury. www.headway.org.uk/media/12887/...

There are a few spaces left in the #ACreativeTransformation writing workshop for young people and young carers of people with lived experience of brain injury in Manchester on April 4. Don’t miss this opportunity, sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo... Please tell everyone you know!

I am featured on the @headwayuk.bsky.social soft launch/teaser of the 'Action for Brain Injury Week' campaign. More soon! www.headway.org.uk/news-and-cam... #acquiredbraininjury #ABI #traumaticbraininjury #TBI

On a good day

Action for Brain Injury Week (ABI Week), 'On a good day, ' is Headway’s 2025 campaign to raise awareness and understanding of brain injury.

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My latest review for @thementalelf.bsky.social discusses the impact of traumatic brain injury on mental health. Research on this theme is limited & flawed. We need stronger science to support better treatments; the effects of TBI can be enduring & severe. www.nationalelfservice.net/other-health...

Traumatic brain injury has long-lasting mental health effects

Lorna Collins considers an umbrella review of health outcomes following traumatic brain injury published in Nature Mental Health.

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Yesterday I was squawking at Malorees Junior School! I gave 6 classes to little people in years 3, 4 and 6. We made up incredible stories, performed them and started writing. These sessions were based on my beloved “Squawk: A Book of Bird Adventures”, which you can buy here: amzn.eu/d/i4AmP08

Today I'm speaking with @roxanabaiasu.bsky.social at @phenolab.bsky.social on 'Transformative Paradoxes of Mad Sense', a talk based on lived experience, art practice & philosophical reflections (post-structuralism, existentialism, phenomenology) on madness and sense...being human. shorturl.at/oxw6S

FULL PROGRAM - A. Y. 2024-2025

The PhenoLab activities will start on September 14, 2024 Lectures and discussions will be held in English. For any query or information, an...

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#ACreativeTransformation live

Here it is: “ACT2 on NRU” Using visual arts to tell our stories after brain injury, a course of art workshops with inpatients at the Neurorehabilitation Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, April-May 2025. Find out more: email lorna.collins6@nhs.net acreativetransformation.org

I'm very keen to connect with young people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury for a free writing for wellbeing workshop in #Manchester on March 7. Travel expenses paid (up to £30 per participant). Please connect, share info around all your networks: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...

Writing for wellbeing through lived experience of brain injury

For young people and young carers (aged 16-25) of people with lived experience of brain injury.

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Everyone needs a ginger cat in their lives. Here is Mr. Tigga, purring, determined to preen away all our worries or concerns. The phone is in the way, sorry Mr. T. He's determined to get as close as possible ...❤️‍🩹...

Making sense of one’s identity in the context of psychopathology is a question of such enormous difficulty that it eventually exhausts us. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/psychopath...

Psychopathology, Exhaustion, and Identity

Diagnostic manuals cannot tell us who we “really” are

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Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist A guest essay by the psychiatrist Susan Mahler on her experience of depression (including treatments with ECT) and how she finds herself in a position where both lived and professional experience are failing her www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/confession...

Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist

Susan Mahler, MS, MD, is a writer and psychiatrist who practices in North Adams, MA.

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International Merleau-Ponty circle on health and healing

It’s very wet and blowy…I’m in Stratford, bringing #ACreativeTransformation to @ucl.ac.uk. I'm meeting a student who is joining and evaluating the project, and giving a #LivedExperience seminar about the brain, trauma and creativity. It is always inspiring to meet the MASc #CreativeHealth students!

I will be a co-facilitator at this event. If you are in the UK and work with (or know any) young people who have experienced brain injury, please share 🙏

Lorna Collins@sensinglorna.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exciting update about our writing workshop for young people in Manchester. We can give each participant up to £30 to support travel expenses to attend the event. If you are interested in joining us do get in touch, we would love to support you to come along. Sign up here: shorturl.at/daPPU

Tell me what you want, what you really really want: lived experience involvement in co-developing outcome measures www.nationalelfservice.net?p=212822 "Have you ever asked people with lived experience what they think the main outcomes of your study should be?"

Lived experience involvement in co-developing outcome measures.

Laura Hemming blogs a systematic review which explores the involvement people with lived experience in the co-development of mental health outcome measures.

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Exciting update about our writing workshop for young people in Manchester. We can give each participant up to £30 to support travel expenses to attend the event. If you are interested in joining us do get in touch, we would love to support you to come along. Sign up here: shorturl.at/daPPU

Today I am at the Neurorehabilitation Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, planning the course of workshops we are running for inpatients in the Spring. I am excited, grateful and feeling very creative with this opportunity. #ACreativeTransformation

Looking for young people and young carers (age 16-25) of people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury for a writing workshop in Manchester on 7th March, 13:00-15:00. For more information and to sign up for this free event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo... Please tell everyone you know!

Writing for wellbeing through lived experience of brain injury

For young people and young carers (aged 16-25) of people with lived experience of brain injury.

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Awesome day with #ACreativeTransformation at Headway Surrey. We were recruiting participants to make films called 'User guides to acquired brain injury', made by and for people with lived experience. Great to work with project partner Beth and the Headway team in this exciting, creative venture.

‘Writing for wellbeing through lived experience of brain injury’, a workshop on March 7th for young people + young carers (aged 16-25) of people with #livedexperience of #braininjury, led by neurodivergent actor/poet Eleanor Blackburn at 42nd Street, Manchester. Sign up here: bit.ly/WritingForWe...

It is a strange experience to be reading a review of the immensely stimulating 'Too Mad to be True III: The Paradoxes of Madness' conference, only to discover a discussion of my very own intervention. MAD FAME! open.substack.com/pub/awaisaft... #madsky #philsky #philosky

A different plane of seeing, expressed clumsily — impossible to capture.

There, where the danger is greatest, the saving power grows