https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk5juEgi1oY Beyond Possible: How the Hearing Voices Approach Transforms Lives is a 22-minute film produced as a part of the work of the Hearing Voices Research & Development fund hosted by Open Excellence in collaboration with Mount Holyoke College and the Western Mass Recovery Learning Community….

https://youtu.be/9x8h3LvEB04 We’ve completed a 25-minute film about Afiya and the concept of peer respite. Topics covered in the film include: A brief history of peer respite Myths & Misconceptions A bit about Afiya house (how long you can stay, etc.) A personal story of someone…

https://youtu.be/lTfqlwKRuEE The current-day mental health system has been shaped around the idea that people who have been given psychiatric labels suffer in a way over which they have no control and that often results in an inability to care for one’’s self.  It is an…

https://youtu.be/lTfqlwKRuEE Beyond the Medical Model examines the impact of a one-model system that has been written so inextricably into our law and language that it has become difficult for many to even hear the evidence supporting a much broader take on what we so often label ‘mental illness.’ …