19Th AQRP CONGRESS and 11Th INTERVOICE CONGRESS
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COMPLETE PROGRAM DARE - PARTICIPATE – TRANSFORM, TAKE OWNERSHIP OF CHANGE TO INFLUENCE IT 19th AQRP CONGRESS and 11th INTERVOICE CONGRESS NOVEMBER 11, 12 AND 13, 2019 HOTEL BONAVENTURE, MONTREAL + 1 SCHEDULE GENERAL INFORMATION Monday, November 11 (Intervoice day) 19TH AQRP CONGRESS 11TH INTERVOICE CONGRESS 9 am Welcome Word 9:15 am Opening Conferences Marius Romme, Sandra Escher and Juliette Soucy INDEX 10:45 am What’s up? Schedule and general information ..................................... 2 12:30 pm Networking lunch Welcome ...............................................................................3 Introducing thematic components .................................3 2 pm International panel: What are the future pathways? Presentation schedule and days........................................3 Opening lecture ....................................................................8 5 pm - 7 pm “Food truck”, awards ceremony by Intervoice Round table: Community organisation ............................9 board and Networking Thematic day dedicated to hiring people in recovery....11 Symposium: The British experience ................................11 7 pm General public projection of the documentary Round table: Hiring peer support in Quebec.................12 “Histoires de voix; paroles d’entendeurs » (Voice Happy hour networking ..................................................13 histories; hearers) Closing conference ...........................................................14 Arts, culture and recovery area ....................................15 Cine-mental .......................................................................16 Monday, November 11 (AQRP/Intervoice/First Nations Congress) Distribution of the workshops and training sessions ....20 Reserve your exhibit space (booth) ...............................42 5 pm - 6:30 pm Pre-registration Funding for Quebecers living or having lived with a mental health problem ......................................................44 Tuesday, November 12 (AQRP/Intervoice/First Nations Congress) Become a member of the AQRP! ....................................46 Registration fees to the Congress ................................47 7 am - 9 am Registration Accommodation at Hotel Bonaventure ..........................48 List of presenters ...............................................................50 9 am - 10:30 am Opening conference Important reminders/thanks to collaborators ...............55 10:30 am Coffee break 11 am - 12:30 pm Workshops and training sessions Block A th X Intervoice Day, 11 Intervoice 12:30 pm - 2 pm Banquet-lunch Congress, Monday November 11, 2019 2 pm - 3:30 pm Workshops and training sessions Block B McGill Residences McGill University- Conferences and 3:30 pm - 4 pm Coffee break Accommodations New Residence Hall 3625, Parc Avenue 4 pm - 5:30 pm Workshops and training sessions Block C Montreal (Quebec) H2X 3P8 Canada 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Happy hour Networking Wednesday, November 13 (AQRP/Intervoice/First Nations Congress) X 19th AQRP Congress and 11th 7 am - 8:30 am Registration Intervoice Congress, Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13, 2019 8:30 am - 10 am Workshops and training sessions Block D Hotel Bonaventure Montreal 10 am - 10:30 am Coffee break 900, rue de la Gauchetière Montreal (Quebec) H5A 1E4 Canada 10:30 am -12 pm Workshops and training sessions Block E Reservations (rooms) CODE: CAQRPI 12 pm - 1:30 pm Banquet-lunch 1-800-267-2575 1:30 pm - 3 pm Workshops and training sessions Block E www.hotelbonaventure.com more details on page 48 3 pm Coffee break closing/Conference by Will Hall 2 DARE – PARTICIPATE – TRANSFORM - TAKE OWNERSHIP OF CHANGE TO INFLUENCE IT Three strong action verbs commit us individually 19th AQRP CONGRESS: INNOVATIONS AND and collectively to influence changes to mark this EMERGENT PRACTICES 19th Congress. Why rely on INNOVATIONS AND EMERGENT A way to DARE is certainly to face the challenge PRACTICES in mental health? From this of offering two exceptional events mobilizing perspective, how will we address the highly knowledge transfer and the exchange of topical following issues? experience! X Unveiling and stigmatization: X The 19th AQRP Congress: « INNOVATIONS AND Can unveiling be a lever to improve social EMERGENT PRACTICES », including a thematic participation? Is it an inescapable issue for segment on First Nations and Inuits « Honor a true social transformation? our knowledge! »; X Integration of knowledge: X The 11th Intervoice Congress under the theme Can the development of knowledge “Uniting our voices, to dare the path of the integration act as a lever for innovation future!”, including an international Voice in our practices to promote a change in an Hearers’ Day. organizational culture? Can it aim towards a true social transformation? How can we incorporate and combine the knowledge Innovators in mental health, we invite you to of people living with a mental health participate in the 19th AQRP Congress. Welcoming the problem, of peer caregivers, of patient 11th Intervoice Congress and the International Hearing advisors or else people close to them? Voice Network, the activities within illustrate an acheivement in risk taking and enterprise. X Citizen participation: Can we talk about recovery without citizen X Discover an array of workshops and training participation or any integration perspective? sessions that illustrate the capacity to venture off How can we get off the beaten track to build the beaten track. Multiple artists and organizations, bridges and create the necessary alliances to from all over joined us to transform their practices, really work within the community? These ideas will help us to aspire together to innovate and redefine a truly inclusive society! To address these various questions, Thus, the intention of this 19th Congress is a bold we are providing you more than 30 challenge of togetherness that will highlight our workshops and training sessions adjoining different accomplishments in contributing to a this theme. greater social participation of all toward a true social transformation. Welcome to all, Diane Harvey, Executive Director, AQRP ALL OPTIONS ARE POSSIBLE! You will find the necessary information on each theme offered in the following pages. You can register to a single theme or choose among all of the different proposed activities. The basic registration is two days and provides access to all the activities offered on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 12 and 13. You can add to it the fixed-rate package for the International voice hearers’ day on Monday, November 11 or else, only participate to the latter. All options are possible! If you combine both registrations (total of three days), you benefit from a discount of 10%. You want to save a bit more? Become a member of the AQRP and benefit from a special fare! (see pages 46 and 47). 3 11TH INTERVOICE CONGRESS: UNITING OUR VOICES, TO DARE THE PATH OF THE FUTURE! As part of its 19th Congress, in collaboration with the Inspiring approaches: How can we change the Quebec Hearing Voices Network (REV), the AQRP relationship with voices? How to recover and better will host the 11th Intervoice Congress, the World live with voices without necessarily making them Hearing Voices Network, a First in Quebec! disappear? What are the inspiring, non-oppressive approaches that can lead us forward in terms of The 11th Congress spreads its activities over 3 days. recovery and social inclusion? The International ’Voice Hearers’ day starts the Congress at McGill Residences. This invitation is Diversity, rights and alternatives: Hearing voices for all participants: people who hear voices or live is by itself a human phenomenon as diversified as with other types of sensorial experiences, those that human nature can be. How can we adapt practices support them and those interested in familiarizing in consideration of the rights, the diversity and with this reality along with meeting for mutual needs of everyone? Do alternative approaches enrichment. have a space or place? How do we sustain their development and their accessibility? It is an outstanding opportunity to share with artists from here and all over the world. Bringing together Spirituality: How do we convey or address representatives from more than six different spirituality? How can we give it the right place in countries, this day covers a broad overview of daily life and within Voice Hearers’ Groups? What initiatives at the international level: It is at the heart about cultural diversity, including first nations’ of this large gathering! In the evening, a general perspectives? public projection of the documentary Histoires de voix; paroles d’entendeurs (Voice histories; Empowerment of voice hearers and the network: hearers speech; subtitled in English) will take place How to fight prejudices related to the voice hearing portraying the Quebec network. phenomenon? How to become free, fulfill one’s place and fully benefit from one’s citizenship? How The first day will take place at McGill Residences in can we support the full growth of the International a friendly and open environment. The two following Hearing Voice Network and link with other social days of activities on voice hearing will take place at networks? Hotel Bonaventure. In a climate of openness, listening and respect, this conference is a unique occasion for each person to express and share their own lived experiences and their unique knowledge, whether experiential or theoretical. You will find more than 30 workshops or training sessions