Mental Health Camp at UBC: Honesty on the Internet

I spent my Saturday at Menta Health Camp, an ‘unconferance’ organized by Raul from Hummingbird 604 and Isabella from Change Therapy.

“Breaking Our Silence. Setting us Free.” We will examine how silence hurts mental health, and, even more importantly, how using our voice helps us achieve and maintain mental health. We will explore how social media can help us find this voice and share it with the world.

What a fantastic event! I’d been asked to participate as a Twitter moderater, directing the conversation at #mhcyvr on Twitter- and putting up key points and discussion questions from whatever panel I was in so others in different panels would be able to get an idea of what they were missing. And they were missing out- but with three different rooms to watch each section, it was inevitable I wouldn’t be seeing each great speaker.

I got to meet J Peachy, and as a result I’ll be attending Sound Therapy Radio tomorrow night, and I’ll also be on a future show! Hurrah! It’s always fantastic to connect with like-minded people!

‘The Artist Lounge‘ is broadcast on CJSF 90.1 every Tuesday at 7pm (pacific).  The program brings together artists of all genres to talk about their creative expressions. Archived broadcasts for ‘The Artist Lounge’ are available here.