1/ Learning about Black Psychology & African Spirituality by @DCoP_BACPG today. Dr Malcolm Phillips points out that “it takes a village to assist with someone’s recovery”. The need for access to multiple community resources.

“The harsh anonymity of NHS spaces”. Example of Centre at North Kensington. Cultural items adorning a space, encouraging calmness and familiarity. Water element in reception, earth element in drop in and cafe. Fire in group activity room. Staff office is nature (nature/ magic)

3/ Eating with clients! (Only done this myself in inpatient EDs). “Western therapies attempt to return a distressed African to a state that wasn’t theirs to begin with”!

4/ Verona Spence-Adofo @vee_verona talking about Mentalism. I pick up an internal ancestral genealogy, starting with God who provides the original blueprint. Different tasks call for different procedures in which a communion with ancestors provides a way forward.

4/ Psychosis as a state of enhanced access to ancestral resources which requires social acknowledgement and support.