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A Retrospective of the Icarus Project: Lessons for Contemporary Mental Health Movements

This presentation was a session at the ISPS-US 2024 National Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Presenting sponsors: INSPIRE Training at Stanford University, and Windhorse Integrative Mental Health. ISPS-US promotes psychological and social approaches to states of mind often called "psychosis" by providing education, training, advocacy, and opportunities for dialogue between service providers, people with lived experience, family members, activists, and researchers. Get involved by attending our educational events or joining us as a member. www.isps-us.org Description From 2002-2020, The Icarus Project developed a network of peer support groups and a creative media outlet that provided a home for folks who experienced mental health struggles and a deep alienation from society. Drawing inspiration from anarchism, anti-psychiatry, permaculture, and other counterculture movements, we aimed to normalize discussions of altered states, intense emotional distress, and suicidality and foster solidarity among people with experiences that were often diagnosed as “serious mental illness” and “psychosis.” At its height, The Icarus Project had thousands of online forum community members, dozens of local peer support/mutual aid groups, and a series of DIY publications that made their way into public mental health systems and became texts for academic analysis. At the same time, we also struggled greatly with interpersonal conflict, leadership burnout and turnover, issues related to identity politics and structural oppression, technological system management, and other challenges common to small social movement organizations. Full description: https://ispsusconference2024.sched.co... About the Presenters Sascha Altman DuBrul, MSW is the co-founder of The Icarus Project, a network of peer based mental health support groups and media project dedicated to redefining the language and culture of mental health and illness. He has a Masters from Silberman School of Social Work and worked from 2016-2019 as a Recovery Specialist and Trainer at Columbia’s Center for Practice Innovations at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is currently a trainer at the Institute for the Development of Human Arts. He is the co-author of Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, Friends Make the Best Medicine: A Guide to Creating Community Mental Health Support Networks, and the author of Maps to the Other Side: The Adventures of a Bipolar Cartographer. Sascha maintains a public/private practice and resides in Los Angeles with his partner, Alice, and their 3 year old twins, Lilah and Silas. Dr. Erin Fletcher is a mental health services researcher at the VA of Greater Los Angeles. Her research focuses on peer-involved interventions, mental health social movements, and Mad/disability studies. She has worked on adapting the Hearing Voices support group approach for Veterans with serious mental health diagnoses (PI: Kalofonos) since 2020, as a part of her postdoctoral fellowship with VA/UCLA Center of Excellence for Veteran Resilience and Recovery. Jacks McNamara is a trauma healing coach, facilitator, educator, writer and artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jacks has been in private practice for 11 years, with a specialty in using somatics and Internal Family Systems to support queer and trans survivors, and in mentoring new queer and trans healing practitioners. They have been peer counseling, facilitating support groups, teaching art and writing classes, and leading workshops around radical mental health since 2004. Jacks is a member of the Generative Somatics Politicized Healers Network and a graduate of the gs Somatics and Trauma practitioner training program. In 2002 Jacks co-founded The Icarus Project, now known as the Fireweed Collective, an international support network and participatory adventure in mutual aid and healing justice. Co-author of Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, their life and work are the subject of the poetic documentary Crooked Beauty. Thank you to our sponsors: INSPIRE training at Stanford University INSPIRE training offers specialized training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) and other psychosocial interventions for clinicians who support individuals with complex mental health needs. https://med.stanford.edu/inspire-trai... Windhorse Integrative Mental Health: Windhorse has offered holistic, compassionate care for 30 over years. An alternative to residential treatment, Windhorse uses mindfulness-informed clinical teams and therapeutic households to support our clients’ recovery journey. https://windhorseimh.org/ Other Sponsors: NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Psychological Association, HeadsUp, Duquesne University, Humane Clinic Australia.