Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
2:00 - 3:30 pm ET (eastern time)
Neurodiversity Gifts: A Meta-Map
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The lenses through which we see mental health conditions are crucial in providing compassionate navigational maps that lead to deep healing. This session offers a fresh set of lenses that allow you to elicit the gifts of neurodiversity, meaning, and purpose. A meta-map of the territory will be drawn by synergizing the worldviews of depth psychology, Greek philosophy, shamanism, spirituality, and current research. Endorsed by NAMI San Diego, and studied by the University of California San Diego to be approved as a treatment modality, South African Josh guides you through a dynamic presentation and breakout session that unpacks the game-changing gifts of neurodiversity.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
1. Utilize their enhanced cultural competency to better select a cosmology that aligns with peers’ self-reports
2. Become aware of models that supplement and balance the biological model of psychosis
3. Appreciate the diversity of perspectives that lie beyond culturocentrism and chronocentrism
Presented By:
Josh Roberts
Born and raised in South Africa, the extensive travels of Josh Roberts include ventures deep into the state of mind called bipolar type 1. Josh combines his lived experience in the mental health system with his education in psychology (BA from the University of South Africa) and theology (MA from Fuller Theological Seminary). His passion is to create a synergy between the inner and outer worlds through optimizing mental health. He works with prominent mental health providers in San Diego, California including NAMI, Mental Health Systems, and Interfaith in supporting many of those who are most affected by mental health struggles. He’s an avid surfer, riding the currents of his American lucid dream with his wife and two young daughters.
Co-moderator: Oryx Cohen
CEO, National Empowerment Center
Co-moderator: Shira Collings
Youth Coordinator, National Empowerment Center
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