artED at ReCoCo: Creating Your Own Recovery Journey – Is that even possible?

Thanks to everyone who were involved in the artED event at ReCoCo on Tuesday evening. I was honoured to have such an impressive panel and it was great to have such a mixed and engaged audience who posed some really thoughtful questions.

For those who did not attend, here is a summary:

Grainne Sweeney gave a short introduction to artED, the event and introduced the panel: Alisdair Cameron (Co-Director ReCoCo), Claire Murphy-Morgan (Senior Research Assistant, RHED-C), Anne Fry (CEO, Eating Distress North East) and Fiona Granger (NHS Specialist Nurse in ED).  

I lead a brief mindfulness exercise and handed over to my good friend and writer Barbara who read, Write-off day, a piece of my writing from The Thing Part 1. 

I then posed the following question to the panel

If we lived in an ideal world and you could make any intervention or changes within the system, what would you do?

We then addressed this and shared our collective experience to imagine ways in which the NHS and community health services can empower individuals to create their own personal recovery plans.

The event concluded with a stimulating question and answer session with questions from the floor.