By Julia Macintosh On 25 September I was delighted to host an ISPS UK online event featuring Bella Jackson, the author of Fragile Minds. This book chronicles Bella’s experience of…
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Reflection 3 from Beyond Them & Us: Creating Social Change
The ISPS UK annual conference 2025, held in Manchester in May, invited delegates to consider the theme “Beyond Them And Us: Finding Common Ground” and to participate in a trialogue…
Reflection 2 from Beyond Them & Us: Lived Experience Perspective
The ISPS UK annual conference 2025, held in Manchester in May, invited delegates to consider the theme “Beyond Them And Us: Finding Common Ground” and to participate in a trialogue…
Reflection 1 from Beyond Them And Us: Profesional’s Perspective
The ISPS UK annual conference 2025, held in Manchester in May, invited delegates to consider the theme “Beyond Them And Us: Finding Common Ground” and to participate in a trialogue…
Conference: Beyond Them & Us, Finding Common Ground
Users & survivors of mental health services, their families and carers and mental health workers are often seen as having opposing positions. Consequently, opportunities for finding common ground, developing authentic…
ISPS UK Member’s Networking Event
Creating Common Ground 19th February 2025, 6-8pm, Zoom Our Member's Networking Event is fast approaching! This is an exciting opportunity for all ISPS UK members to come together to get…
Update from Family & Friends Journaling Group
We've now held two sessions of the Journaling Group for Family and Friends, co-hosted by ISPS UK trustees Jen Kilyon and Julia Macintosh. Julia has facilitated journaling workshops since 2017…
Lived Experience Handbook
Jacqui Dillon and Paula Reavey are delighted to announce that they have recently secured a contract with Routledge to publish an International Handbook of Lived Experience in the Context of…
Family & Friends Journaling Group
ISPS UK are delighted to introduce a new, free online journaling group which is for family members and friends of people with lived experience of psychosis. Helping to care for…
Reflections from London, Psychosis: Why Relationships Matter
We were delighted to host an afternoon seminar on 26th April 2024 at London South Bank University, bringing together professionals, carers/family members and those with lived experience of ‘psychosis’. The…