The Power Threat Meaning Framework is a radical approach to understanding emotional distress and wellbeing. It can help to create hopeful understandings of people’s lives, strengths and difficulties that aren’t based on individual psychiatric diagnoses or psychological deficits. Instead, it focuses on the role of power and power abuses in our lives, on the impact of the resulting threats, how we make sense of our experiences, and on the strategies we use to survive.

PTMF has been developed by a group of psychologists and people with experience of accessing mental health services, and is steadily gaining a profile in the UK and globally, within peer groups, mental health services and community organisations. In this workshop, we’ll:

• Introduce the Framework
• Run one or two discussion exercises, giving participants the opportunity to reflect on key elements of the Framework in relation to their own life .  The PTMF emphasises that emotional and mental distress are part ofall of our lives  – there is no them and us.
• Finish with a Q&A

The workshop will be facilitated Marc Gardiner, Lead on Trauma-Informed Practice at the ZebraCollective www.zebra.coop, and Gilli Watson, Clinical Psychologist, Consultant and Trainer.

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