Delta practitioners involved in successful local conference
Terry Ebeling and Bernadette Berry presnted workshops at the highly successful Supporting Families in Mental Illness conference in Otago, entitled Supporting the Journey. Bernadette gave a training workshop to SF mental health support workers in a programme she developed for SF called Children Understanding Mental Illness (CUMI). This is a programme aimed at primary school children who have a family member with a serious mental illness and deals with issues of stigma, blame, acceptance and more. The training was very well received.
Terry runs a Men's Group at SF Otago and gave a workshop about physical and emotional relationships with a partner with a serious mental illness. The workshop was tagged "R18" and was fully subscribed with much robust discussion around these often unaddressed issues.