Self-organizing for mental well-being

Workshop with „this is insane!“
The workshop intends to open a conversation about tools and practices that enable self-determination and self-organization for mental well-being. After a short introduction on the history of antipsychiatric struggles and some of its current stakes, we will share and discuss tools we can use in order to support each other in circumstances of mental suffering, distress, breakdowns, or other moments we don’t feel good.

Mental health related questions should not be considered as individual private issues but rather as political collective questions. And therefore we can develop collective and solidaric propositions to deal
with them, and support each other.

Crisis plans and support groups are some of those accessible and actionable tools we can introduce in our lives and our communities, among our friends and affinity circles. So that a situation of distress or doubts does not result in social isolation, or face for unique possible answer the necessity to look alone for professional help. They allow us to learn about ourselves and what we experience, they give the
possibility to share those insights with people around us, and create the conditions we collectively need to develop skills and capacities for community support.

Different resources in the forms of zines and posters will be proposed to support the conversation and the reflection afterwards.