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The UKRF Recovery Principles

The UKRF Recovery Principles. Recovery lies within individuals, families and communities and is self-directed and empowering . Recovery lies within our ‘connectedness’ to others , is holistic and has many cultural dimensions.

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The UKRF Recovery Principles

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  1. The UKRF Recovery Principles • Recovery lies within individuals, families and communities and is self-directed and empowering. • Recovery lies within our ‘connectedness’ to others, is holistic and has many cultural dimensions. • Recovery is supported by peers, families and allies within communities. • Recovery involves the personal, cultural and structural recognition of the need for participative change, transformation and the building of recovery capital. • Recovery involves a continual process of change and self-redefinition for individuals, families, organisations and communities.

  2. Recovery challenges all discrimination and transcends shame and stigma. • Recovery emerges from hope, gratitude, love and gifts to others. • There are many pathways to Recovery and no individual, community or organisation has the right to claim ownership of the ‘right pathway’. • Recovery exists on a continuum of improved health and well-being. • Recovery transcends, whilst embracing, a wide variety of approaches and does not seek to be prescriptive. • Honesty, self-awareness and openness lie at the heart of Recovery. • Recovery is a Reality & Contagious.

  3. Supporting Connections & Learning: North-West. West Yorkshire. N Lincs.South East Region: Sussex, Kent. Eastern Region: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk. Wiltshire.Lanarkshire.Glasgow 2010. Edinburgh. Cardiff 2011.Brighton 2012. Somerset. Exeter. Birmingham 2013. London: Camden, Kingston, Barnet, Barking, Wandsworth. Islington. Derbyshire & Midlands Community-led, strength-based, diverse, open & inclusive. Committed to personal, cultural and structural transformation. VALUES & IDEAS

  4. Everyone’s Recovery is unique Recovery in the field of mental health services is actually a complex of ideas - but I propose it can be understood most simply as hope that someone, particularly someone in the throes of suffering acutely from a serious and persistent mental health problem, can reclaim their life or create a newly meaningful one Recovery is difficult, idiosyncratic, and requires faith - but it is possible Recovery is a truly unifying human experience...recovery is unique to each person Like mental illness itself, the notion of recovery represents a multidimensional set of phenomena which may share nothing more than a Wittgensteinian sense of 'family resemblance’

  5. Some key people & dates in Recovery History Shared Humanity PhillipePinel& Jean-Baptise Pussin 1793 Traitement Moral: Care, belonging & meaning bring recovery. The beginnings of ‘Peer Support’. Taking over the Asylum. Reciprocity (giving & receiving) Dorothea Dix 1840 Healthy environments promote health. Social Justice & Therapeutic Living. Jane Addams 1889 Living ‘with’ & ‘doing with’ (as opposed to ‘doing to’) in the Community to promote Recovery(Personal, Cultural & Structural). We are more alike as human beings than different. The importance of Community & the ‘Everyday’ Adolf Meyer 1900 M/H illness like other illnesses – people can & do recover & in ‘madness’ all have areas of functioning/strengths. Everyday life (our interactions) in the social world is key to recovery.

  6. Mutual Aid & Self Help Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), the first twelve-step fellowship founded August 11, 1938 Civil Rights Movement 1960’s Equality before the law Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement Late 1980’s & early 1990’s Changing the culture, building on our strengths & becoming active agents in our own lives Bill White 1986 + From Cultures of Addiction to Cultures of Recovery Larry Davidson 2003 + Finding a sense of self in Recovery & living a meaningful gratifying life in the presence of an ongoing mental illness John McKnight 1985 + Moving from a deficit world to an asset world The Abundant Community

  7. Waves of Public Health: • 1830-1900 Wave 1: Classical public health interventions (water, sanitation), growth of municipal power & influence, rise of the ‘expert’… • 1890-1950Wave 2: Scientific Rationalism, germ theory of disease, hospitals, health visitors... • 1940-1980 Wave 3: Post war consensus, social solidarity, welfare state, new housing, NHS… • 1960- 2000 Wave 4: focus on individual risk factors/lifestyle issues, rise of neo-liberalism & ‘challenges of ‘modernity’… • Economism • Individualism • Consumerism & Materialism • “A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make their nations sick. And sick nations make for sick storytellers.” • Ben Okri

  8. "Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its arts, its key institutions - rearranges itself … We are currently living through such a time.” Peter Drucker (2002) “Modern society: unequal, inequitable and unsustainable” Phil Hanlon (2012) The 5th Wave: Integrative: Valuing the subjective (the ‘I’ & ‘We’) & objective (evidence/science) & bringing communities & services together to co-produce. Valuing stories & wisdom within families, neighbourhoods & communities (Cahn’s ‘Core Economy’). Creative, ecological, ethical & beautiful. Re-integrating the true, the good and the beautiful. ‘love, care, or compassion’.

  9. UKRF Recovery Charter Values: Respect Hope & Optimism Genuine & Equal Human Relationships Shared Learning & Support Self-Determination & Personal/ Community Strengths Reciprocity

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