29th of September 2014Five speakers share their perspective on ward design, including a new secure unit; repeatable rooms that are just about to be built; patient-led designs from the nineteenth century and an emergent new process of co-design

We Nee To Talk About...Sanctuary After The Asylum

Sep 27th, 2014

15th of September 2014Diana Rose (Professor of User Research,cKCL , Nick Hervey (retired Head of Social Care at SLaM), David Beales (artist who represents asylum and society in his work) and Sarah Wheeler (on finding religious/rural/psychiatric

We Need To Talk About...Transitioning Out of Hospital

Apr 6th, 2014

24th March 2014A discussion about the personal experience of coming out of psychiatric hospital.Featuring the voices of Sarah Wheeler and Sarah Martin, from the Maudsley Hospital, who presents ideas towards the new transitional service and invi

We Need To Talk About....Stigma and Mental Health

Jul 24th, 2013

Garry from band of Brothers, Sally Seth and Sarah from Mental Fight Club and Poetry lawyer, David Neita share views on public and personal stigmatisation of mental health issues.

We Need To Talk About…Psychiatric Training and Mental Health

Jul 24th, 2013

27th of May 2013Doctors Khaldoon Ahmed and Louise Bundock discuss with Mental Fight Club Creative Director, Sarah Wheeler and Thomas Tobias, and the Dragon Café audience, views and reflections on psychiatric training in this, the third and fina

We Need To talk About...Psychiatric Wards and Mental Health

Jun 4th, 2013

20th of May 2013Consultant Psichiatrist, Khaldoon Ahmed and Mental Fight Club Creative Director Sarah Wheeler and Thomas Tobias discuss with the Dragon Café audience the role in fostering (or not!) good mental health. This is Dialogue 2 of our

We Need To Talk About...Medication, Diagnosis and Mental Health

Jun 4th, 2013

13th of May 2013This was the first of our Young Doctors Dialogues in which trainee doctors Elinor Hynes and Louise Bundock discuss with the audience the role of medication and diagnosis in the relationship between doctor and client. It is intro

We Need To talk About .... Mothers

Apr 27th, 2013

8th of April 2013A discussion led by Ebony Empress, Sandra Rodney, in discussion with MFC Creative Director, Sarah and Thomas Tobias.

We Need To Talk About...Psychiatric Hospitals

Jan 27th, 2013

21st of January 2013Alex Hamel, a Canadian film maker came to the Dragon Café to show us his documentary on a Canadian psychiatric hospital. It had originally been made with teenagers in mind and was originally presented in 6 short films posted

We Need To Talk About….Alienation and Local Connection

Dec 26th, 2012

We Need To Talk About….Alienation and Local Connection10th of December 2012A discussion led by Sarah and Thomas Tobias about how locality can affect our mental well being for good or ill, followed by contributions from the floor.

We Need To Talk About….All Our Southwark Stories

Dec 26th, 2012

We Need To Talk About….All Our Southwark Stories3rd of December 2012A short talk given by Sarah and Thomas Tobias about moving to Southwark when suffering from mental illness.

We Need To Talk About….Anger and Mental Illness

Nov 18th, 2012

5th of November 2012This week we talked about anger and mental illness, with Sarah Wheeler kicking off the discussion with a piece she had written over the weekend and then handing over to a very full Dragon Café to share experiences and ideas.

We Need To Talk About…Friendship and Mental Illness

Nov 18th, 2012

29th of October 2012This discussion followed Sarah’s performance of “Remembrance of Things Past”, which commemorated her deep friendship with Heloise Osborne, how she helped Sarah through horrific periods of mental illness, and the toll that su

We Need To Talk About....Depression - A Global Crisis

Nov 18th, 2012

8th of October 2012This talk was led by Sarah Wheeler to mark World Mental Health Day, whose subject this year was “Depression – A Global Crisis”. Sarah quoted some chilling statistics – depression is the third biggest cause of global ill healt

We Need To Talk About…Psychiatric Labels and Imaginative Metaphors for Mental Illness

Nov 18th, 2012

22nd October 2012Sarah led a discussion on psychiatric labels and imaginative metaphors for mental illness in the more intimate setting of Space One at the Dragon Café. Unfortunately we don’t have the audio of the talk but we present here the d

We Need To Talk About...Mental Illness

Nov 18th, 2012

1st of October 2012This was the first in the series, We Need To Talk About…., and is a great introduction to the experience of mental illness from many different perspectives. The speakers are Dr Khaldoon Ahmed, registrar in adult psychiatry, A

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