Flick Grey was first offered a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder in 2005. Since then she has been dedicated to exploring this diagnosis (despite receiving 8 other diagnoses since then, BPD has continued to be the most intriguing).
Her wanderings have led her through the BPD world (she was a speaker at the 2011 International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD) Congress, and helped organise the inaugural BPD Awareness Day, her work is published in a well-respected mental health text book (Mental Health in Australia), and she was employed as the inaugural Consumer Consultant at Spectrum in 2015-6) into the wider world - the international consumer/survivor movement and the Alternatives movements.
This led Flick to London, where she studied Open Dialogue (a form of systemic family therapy from Finland) for three years. In 2015, she received the SANE Hocking Fellowship to explore the intersection between peer work and Open Dialogue. She is currently the Lead Intentional Peer Support Trainer for the Expanding Post-Discharge Support Initiative (DHHS-funded), Peer Support Manager at PartnerSPEAK and project worker at the Self Help Addiction Resource Centre, as well as regularly lecturing at various universities, speaking at international conferences, and maintaining a private practice as an Open Dialogue practitioner, supervisor and consultant. Amongst all of this, she identifies as a unicorn and a Mad academic who has child parts, radically challenging the construction of distress as “personality disorder”. In this evening workshop, she will explore with you some alternative understandings of BPD that open up radically different relational spaces.
Tuesday 17/4/18
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