Long-time Icarus member Joel is helping to organize a TIP workshop in Brighton. 5:30 pm at The Cowley Club.

Workshop description:

WALKING THE EDGE OF INSANITY

A Workshop on Navigating the Mystery of Mental Health in a World Gone Mad
a discussion inspired by The Icarus Project

As creative folks skeptical of the conventional social system, what does it mean within our extended community for someone to be "mentally ill" or struggling with traditional labels such as "clinical depression,"  "bipolar disorder," or "schizophrenia?" How helpful is the modern psychiatric paradigm that revolves around medicine and mental disorders and how much of it is really just a function of powerful pharmaceutical corporations, public funding cuts, and a society that equates productivity with health? Are there other frameworks for understanding what it means to be "crazy?" Are there alternative ways to heal? How do we begin the process?

There are ways to take charge of our own sanity. There are other maps than the ones we are handed by families, schools, televisions, and doctors.

Chances are pretty high that if you're reading this, you or someone you care about has been grappling with these questions for years. Come join an open discussion and learn more about The Icarus Project, a radical support nework by and for people struggling with the dangerous gifts commonly labeled as mental illnesses. The Icarus Project envisions a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences  rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework.  By joining together as individuals and as a community, we hope to create space where the intertwined threads of madness and creativity can inspire hope and transformation in a repressed and damaged world.