WELCOME !

We are a group of seven people who met at CEIMH, Birmingham, teamed up in March 2009 and decided to support each other in our transitions from stumbling along to soaring through life and to share our learning and gains with others who might like to be soaring too. All of us have suffered from mental health difficulties and all have had greater or lesser encounters with mental health services.

In relation to other community groups we are working to produce engaging events to challenge stigmatisation and discrimination against people who suffer from labels of 'mental illness'. In the summer of 2010 we will be launching our first 'Road2Recovery Show', based in the West Midlands and supported by the national campaign 'OpenUp'.

Along with many other individuals and groups in this country and abroad we have gathered skills and experience as 'experts by experience' and are providing opportunities for mental health and other professionals and social groups to enrich their practice and health in relation to mental health. 

Similarly, alongside so many of our peers, we are working to enquire critically and creatively into the available and possible representations of 'mental illness', seeking to apply rigour as well as imagination and first hand experience as tools in our project of co-developing a significant breakthrough from normative practice in the science of mind, behaviour and emotion.

 

Finally, in an improvised and provisional extra for our 'HOME PAGE' this is an 'in a nutshell' message about the spirit breathing through this team and its work: I keep hearing people talking about 'keeping it REAL' - so frequently that it seems to have become a buzz phrase. Although I am not quite sure what it means, yet it's an attractive phrase. I like to 'keep it personal' - we value, as a matter of principle the warm, concrete and local colour of personality and personalisation in absolutely every zone of human life. It is the 'human touch' of an open heart that feeds and sustains joy and positive mental health. When 'professionalism' = the erasure of personal authenticity then it has reached a place that spells amber into red for high risk to others regardless of its impact on the self.  This last paragraph is the sole opinion of one member of the group, JG, until or unless supported by others in the group.                                         

 

 

 

 
 

MISSION ONE: TO CO-EFFECT A MIRACULOUSLY POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF 'MENTAL ILLNESS' AND ON THE PROVISION OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.   
 

MissionMiraculus is, perhaps, an odd name for our organisation. We are not a religious organisation although we pride ourselves on being an ethical one. We don't delude ourselves that we have a 'special' access to the workings of miracles per se. The name sprang as if from nowhere into the mind of the Company’s Concept Provider, and somehow or another it stuck.   

Why 'miracle'? We are using a colloquial variant of the definition of the word. We assign the status of 'miracle' to those events or developments that if accomplished or occurring are so welcome to the affected individuals or groups that prior to it they would describe it as 'a miracle'.   

For some people finding renewed hope in being alive at all constitutes a 'miracle'. For others redeveloping financial independence may be a 'miracle'. Some may view the re-establishment of helpful daily routines to have been so long beyond their capacity that to succeed in such a goal would constitute a 'miracle'.   

The higher a person's self esteem the larger the ambition of the 'miracle' goal - the higher, in other words, they will set the bar for their dreams. We care about the smallest as well as the largest dreams.   

We are starting as small as it's possible to begin and we're aiming as high as the limits of our imagination allow.

 Road

To

Recovery

In 2010 we are

going to visit

five 'Town Centres'

in the Midlands.

Watch this space

for details.
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