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SRN national event attracts record numbers

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Monday, 16 March 2009
On 26th February SRN welcomed over 400 people to the Perth Concert Hall for our 2009 national conference 'Making Recovery Real.' We were delighted to have had Mary O'Hagan as the keynote speaker. She concluded the morning session with her presentation 'Recovery and Wellbeing: Two words, one agenda' (PDF).

Simon Bradstreet's powerpoint presentation from the morning session is also available to download: Progress learning and next steps (PDF)

The afternoon session consisted of 12 parallel sessions and involved over 60 contributors from across Scotland covering the topics below:
  • Communicating recovery
  • Learning and training in recovery
  • Carers and informal supporters and recovery
  • Using the Scottish Recovery Indicator to support good practice
  • Service User movement - Involvement to leadership
  • Experience of local recovery networks
  • Recovery focussed systems and practice
  • Staying well - discussions about wellness planning
  • World of work: A discussion
  • Piloting Peer Support
  • Sharing stories and experience
  • Recovery and black and minority ethnic (BME) communities
The sessions were extremely popular and offered an insight into the experiences and work happening in Scotland relating to mental health and recovery.

From feedback received we consider the event to have been a great success. In the coming weeks we will post presentations from the afternoon sessions on the website as well as film and audio recordings from the day.
 
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