FROM DIAGNOSIS TO DIALOGUE – LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING EVERYONE AT THE ISPS CONFERENCE
9.00 Tea, coffee and registration
9.15 Introduction and Welcome: Alison Summers, Consultant Psychiatrist, Lancashire
Care NHS Foundation Trust
Plenary Session 1: Alison Summers (Chair) _______________________________
9.30 Jaakko Seikkula, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Jyvaskla, Finland
Title: Challenges in developing Open Dialogue practice
10.30 Discussion session: applying Open Dialogue approaches
11.30 Tea and coffee
Plenary Session 2: Miriam Hodson (Chair) ________________________________
12.00 Lucy Johnstone, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Cwm Taf Health Board
Title: Time to abandon psychiatric diagnosis: Arguing for a formulation-based
approach
1.00 Lunch
Workshop Sessions 1 __________________________________________________
2.00 Choice of 7 parallel workshops
3.30 Tea and coffee
Plenary Session 3: Jen Kilyon (Chair) ____________________________________
4.00 John Read, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool
Title: Creating evidence-based, humane mental health services: overcoming barriers
to a paradigm shift
Space for discussion & reflection ________________________________________
5.00 Panel discussion
The opportunity to ask questions of all key note speakers, share your reflections and
bring together the day’s learning
5.30 ISPS UK Annual General Meeting
Optional, but we hope that members and potential members will join us.
Open Dialogue in the UK (optional – following AGM)
An opportunity for further discussion with individuals actively involved in taking this
forward.
8.00 Conference dinner
Included in residential conference fees, non-residential attendees please enquire.
Wednesday 17 September 2014
Stamford Court, University of Leicester, Manor Road, LE2 2LH
Plenary Session 4: John Read (Chair) ____________________________________
9.00 Rachel Waddingham, Hearing Voices Network, Mind in Camden & Behind The
Label. Title: On The Edge? Talking about, understanding and living with ‘taboo’ and
‘violent’ voices
10.00 Jim Geekie, Clinical Psychologist, NHS (Lancashire Care)
Title: 10 Tall Tales from my travels: reflections on 15 years working in early
intervention in psychosis.
11.00 Tea and coffee
Workshop Sessions 2 (7 parallel workshops) ______________________________
11.30 Choice of 7 parallel workshops
1.00 Lunch
Plenary Session 5: Rachel Waddingham (Chair) ____________________________
2.00 Marius Romme & Sandra Escher, Association “Living with Voices” Maastricht
Title: Focus on the symptoms instead of on the illness and solve the ‘schizophrenia’
problem
3.00 Tea and coffee
Plenary Session 6: Brian Martindale (Chair) _______________________________
3.30 Arnhild Lauveng, Consultant Psychologist and author
Title: Which words can we use for unspeakable lives? Psychotic symptoms as
symptoms of life and life stories.
Space for discussion & reflection ________________________________________
4.30 Panel discussion
The opportunity to ask questions of all key note speakers, share your reflections and
bring together the day’s learning
5.00 Conference ends
Thursday 18 September 2014
Stamford Court, University of Leicester, Manor Road, LE2 2LH
