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*Peer dialogue/support groups
safe confidential spaces for listening, sharing,
could include discussion themes, questions, exploration through gestalt therapy, narrative, contemplative etc

*Reading sub-group
want to learn about the history of psychiatry and cultural/intercultural views of madness, as well as the alternatives? Join us to read a little bit weekly and discuss how we personally relate to the reading

*Mad Maps Workshop (self-reflection and navigation through making guides, toolkits, thinking about your environment)

*Art Therapy Workshop or group / "Creative Release"

*Madness Movie Screenings

*Open Mic, Open Minds: A Madness Reading / story share / 'speak-out'

*Speakers. Participatory Dialogues with professionals

*A Documentary Zine based around stories of atypical experience - woven deftly from the pages of our lives, into the dark and light pages of mixed-media protean shape-shifting zine-tude. Uber-cool expression of the themes we bring up elsewhere. A playing with the inertia of culture. A word-bomb.

*Theatre of the Oppressed / Playback Theatre ish thing

*meditative practices skillshare

*contemplative practices skillshare

*experience/knowledge-share of different forms of 'therapy' or practice

*"say whatever comes out. everything is important." excursions.

*new (old) language workshops, or weekly 'noticing tasks': understanding through our intuitive language (overlaps with some of the other things)

*workshops focusing on gender, color, sexual orientation

*workshops on nutrition, ayurveda

Long-term possibilities:

*connecting with other networks

*utilizing the icarus project forums for extended conversation among local peers

*a presence in the new-upcoming infoshop (777 Camino Pescadero) or a 'library'

*advocacy and activism.

*list of resources

*household distress management resource(s) of some sort

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Some of these event things can be integrated with Santa Barbara Free Skool too, etc etc

So. Whaddya think?!?!