Presentation by Joanne Newman - Trauma, Hearing Voices and Becoming a Compassionate Agent of Change. Presented at the Western Australian Mental Health Conference 2019.
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Joanne Newman - Trauma, Hearing Voices and Becoming a Compassionate Agent of Change
1. Trauma, Hearing Voices & Becoming
A Compassionate Agent of Change
Joanne Newman
WAAMH Conference 2019
2. I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE WADJUK (PERTH REGION) PEOPLE OF THE
NOONGAR NATION CUSTODIANS OF THE LAND ON WHICH WE GATHER.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO PAY RESPECT TO THE ELDERS OF THE NOONGAR NATION,
BOTH PAST AND PRESENT,
AND EXTEND THAT RESPECT
TO OTHER ABORIGINAL NATIONS AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS.
Joanne Newman
WAAMH Conference 2019
3. Acknowledgement of people with lived experience
“I would also like to acknowledge those people with lived experience, both
past and present. Our elders who fought for our rights and freedoms, those
of us who are at various points on the road to healing and finding our
freedom, and those who are no longer with us.
I acknowledge the struggle and pain, the achievements and learning, the
losses and grief, the gifts that we find in our darkest times, the silence of
trauma, and the injustices still experienced by many.”
(used with permission from Indigo Daya )
Joanne Newman
WAAMH Conference 2019
4. THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL
Political:
Relating your views about social relationships involving authority or power
(unknown)
my survival is political
being here today is political
telling my story is political
raising awareness in my community is political
my position on what’s called “mental illness” is political
WAAMH Conference 2019
Joanne Newman
5. “It was the best of times, it was
the worst of times … it was the
season of light, it was the
season of darkness, it was the
spring of hope, it was the winter
of despair.”
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
WAAMH Conference 2019
Joanne Newman
6. I hear voices because of traumatic
events, and the scars that were left
behind
It’s what happened to me NOT
what’s wrong with me!
WAAMH Conference 2019
Joanne Newman
7. Trauma means wound
Joanne Newman
WAAMH Conference 2019
Trauma is not what happens to us.
That’d be traumatic events: events that can
leave us wounded, traumatized, injured.
“That’s not trauma, that’s traumatic.”
- Gabor Mate -