November 14, 2009 – 8:22 am
Okay, I’m hoping that EVERYONE will get involved in this and help out. We have had well over 100 people attend our monthly Learning Community Meetings throughout our six counties. The meetings have been very successful – they are for the community to get involved, get informed, and hopefully get active. WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We’re [...]
September 9, 2009 – 10:03 am
For as long as I can remember I didn’t feel like I was quite right. I was a loner at home and at school. Although I became accustomed to my loneliness, I never could learn to like it. I could be in a room full of people and still feel all by myself. My lack [...]
August 21, 2009 – 7:34 am
For those of you who have been focusing on the report of how people with a mental illness are dying 25 years earlier than the general population, an article that a friend of mine posted on facebook called Quantifying the Issue might be of some use to you. It spells out the facts about why [...]
Here are Learning Community agendas from January, February, April, May, and June. During March, Learning Communities did not meet. Instead, Northern Lakes Community Mental Health conducted the Recovery Enhancing Environment (REE) survey.
For several months, the Learning Communities learned about a different diagnosis each meeting. In January it was Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In February the topic [...]
November 27, 2008 – 8:57 am
Click for the 2009 calendar of Recovery Learning Community meetings for Cadillac, Grayling, Houghton Lake, and Traverse City.
November 27, 2008 – 8:51 am
In November, the Learning Community agenda focused on ways to deal with stress, anxiety and depression at the holiday season. People spent some time practicing some visualization techniques such as “The Helping Creature” (where you envision creatures to help you), breathing exercises you can try at home, and a relaxation technique where you visualize yourself [...]
September 18, 2008 – 7:21 am
The September 2008 Learning Communities agenda was all about food…
Fast food restaurants and nutritional information by item so you can make healthy choices in fast food restaurants;
Recipes so you can make healthy versions of beef burritos, burgers and fries, chili, fried chicken and macaroni and cheese at home (thank you, BD Diabetes.com!); and
How to understand nutrition labels [...]
The July Learning Community meeting agenda included a fun, interactive segment on Effective Listening and the Art of Asking Questions. Recovery Coordinator Mary Beth pretended to be a grumpy, uncommunicative guy and the group tried to engage in conversation with “him.” When people asked good, open-ended questions, Mary Beth responded and a conversation was started. [...]
The June Learning Community agenda focused on the language we use, specifically when we talk about recovery and stigma. In learning about the language of recovery, the group started with the official Northern Lakes CMH definition and how you can use that as a starting point for yourself. The group discussed that there are [...]
Attendees at the May Learning Communities (see agenda) had the opportunity to try using “bio-dots” to see how breathing and relaxation techniques work. Bio-dots are small circles with adhesive on one side and a shiny surface on the other side which look a bit like the old mood rings of the 1970s.
You place a bio-dot [...]
