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I experienced extreme mood swings leading to a diagnosis of manic depression
(bipolar disorder). On my journey of recovery I am sharing knowledge and experience
gained over 20 years of mood swings and now 10 years of relative stability.
Roger Smith
I facilitated Self Management Training for MDF the BiPolar Organisation from 2002 to 2007. My focus now is on mood disorder training rather than focusing any specific diagnosis. I am providing training based on WRAP and my own experiences. Most recently I co-facilitated the 16 week In-Sight course for the University of Hertfordhshire.
I continue to talk/facilitate workshops at self-help groups and for charity staff at special low rates.
See Examples of workshops , Bipolar Recovery Main Menu
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Roger Smith would like to help you with courses, talks or workshops on mental health awareness, recovery, memetics, stress education, stress advice.
Roger is a first class facilitator / co-facilitator and can help you make a good course extraordinary and something participants remember forever.
As well as delivering courses Roger has experience with developing presentation materials including Powerpoint, acetates, posters and 3D models to illustrate important points regarding stress and mental health recovery and with anti-stigma work.
Find out more about booking Roger to help with your course
Although most training Roger provides is now through universities, service user training organisations and charities, it is possible to hire Roger directly.
Stop Paddling can deliver Mental Health Awareness (MHA) training for you anywhere in the UK. We can use your slides and interactive exercises or ours. We can mix and match to deliver a course tailored for your group of participants.,
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I started writing short stories whist suffering from bipolar disorder and hypomania (mainly experienced as an inablity to sleep due to racing thoughts). Whist in recovery I was fortunate enough to meet others in recovery from bipolar disorder who were able to help with the publication of
Stop Paddling/Start Sailing - A journey and some ideas.
I am now involved with several writing projects including a training manual for those needing to understand mood swings.
Also new issues of Sailing Ideas are always underway.
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The idea of `meme' as a name for any piece of information that can copied accurately and repeatedly has been around since 1976. Even so few people have as yet studied our living and thinking from the memes point of view (memetics).
I have been studying memetics since 1999 and went on to write Stop Paddling/Start Sailing largely to introduce memetics to a wider audience and to introduce, for the first time in book form, the idea that understanding a little about memes/memetics can help some people improve their mental health.
Please contact me if you would like to experience a memetics workshop and
have a chance to say, "Wow, so that is how the world works!"
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Member of International Stress Management Association
I am on www.linkedin.com where I am interested in linking with others who are providing mood disorder training, bipolar recovery awareness, mental health awareness and mental health anti-stigma work. Read Roger's CV
I maintain the website for the Service User Survivor Trainers Network. SUSTN helps trainers who have experienced mental distress to meet and learn from each other. Currently it costs nothing to join SUSTN and benefits include free advertising at www.sustn.net if the services you offer are judged to beneficial to those in-recovery from mental distress/illness. Example: www.sustn.net/roger
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