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4:00pm EDT

Creative Vision Factory Tour-Wilmington, DE (In-Person Only) Off SiteMichael Kalmbach

8:00am EDT

Registration and Coffee Lobby

8:15am EDT

First-Time Attendee Meet-Up Lobby

9:00am EDT

Welcome: Address from Lt. Governor Bethany Hall-Long Auditorium

9:15am EDT

Keynote: How Do You Roar? A Reflection on Becoming More Human Together AuditoriumPat Deegan, PhD

10:30am EDT

10:45am EDT

Cross-Movement Solidarity as a Catalyst for Social Transformation AuditoriumLeah Giorgini • Dustin Gibson • Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Nadia Naomi Mbonde • Vesper Moore

12:00pm EDT

ISPS-US Community Meeting Ballroom Lunch Ballroom

1:00pm EDT

Breathing through Altered States | The Power of Breathwork (In-Person Only) Room 119Michaela Fissel, MA Lived Perspectives and Psychoanalysis: Finding Solidarity in Understanding and Working through Psychosis Room 125Marie Brown, PhD • Claire Bien, MEd • Elan Cohen, MA • Bret Fimiani, PsyD Reinstitutionalization Policies in California Room 123Andrea Wagner, MPA Human Rights in the Mental Healthcare System? Room 121Myrrhe van Spronsen, MD, PhD Resisting the System: Promoting Radical Transformation as a Dissident Psychologist with Lived-Experience Virtual OnlyEmily Rose, PhD student Voices from the 606 Room 120Charles Turk, MD • Nancy Burke, PhD, ABPP • Claude Barbre, PhD, MDiv, LP • Candice NunnTelfort

2:00pm EDT

2:30pm EDT

Happy Positive Psychotherapy Scavenger Hunt!: Experience a Co-Designed, Co-Lead PPT, CBTp, Hiking and Ecotherapy Group (In-Person Only) Room 119Tomas Fogl, MD • Peggy Hickman • Isabel Fogl • Jennifer Humphrey • Darby Bohunicky • Emma Wright Learning from the Neurodivergence Community and Reviving the Spirit of Mad Pride Room 123Skye Wood, BA • Justin Horne Solidarity with Ukrainian Psychoanalysts Room 125Françoise Davoine, PhD Mad Studies, Psychosis and Solidarity Virtual OnlyJulia Macintosh • Jesse Girvan Bailey, BSc Menopause & Psychosis: Expert by Experience & Expert by Profession Perspectives on Psychosis in Women at Mid-Life Room 120Leah Harris, MA • Marie Brown, PhD • Lynda Wisdo, MA, CYT Spiritual Emergence and the Intersection of Ethics, Policy, and Law Room 121Mariam Saleh, Esq.

3:30pm EDT

4:00pm EDT

The Risk of Space: Toward a Treatment of Psychosis in the City Room 123Loren Dent, PhD • Matthew Oyer, PhD Learning from the Story: Case-Based Training in Psychosis Response Room 121Jessica Watson Miller My Journey from Psychological Rape to Spiritual Awakening Virtual OnlyFehmida Visnagarwala, MD, MPH Replanting Lives Uprooted by Mental Illness: A Comprehensive Skills Based Multimedia Support Group for Family Members Room 120Mara Briere, MA, CFLE A Panel of Lived Experienced Experts Exploring the Impact of Having Spiritual Emergency Pathologized Room 125Janet Werner, MEd • Colleen DeJoseph, PhD • John Calvin Chatlos, MD • Sean Blackwell

5:30pm EDT

Reception & Awards Lobby

7:00pm EDT

Early Career/Student Social Off Site

8:00am EDT

Registration and Coffee Lobby

9:00am EDT

Welcome Auditorium

9:15am EDT

Keynote: Collective Liberation: Navigating the Path to Mental Health Activism and Autonomy AuditoriumVesper Moore

10:30am EDT

10:45am EDT

Spirituality, Wholeness, Culture, and Faith AuditoriumRobert Bergner, MDiv • Claire Bien, MEd • Derek Pyle • Denise Maratos, PhD • John Calvin Chatlos, MD

12:00pm EDT

1:00pm EDT

An Open Dialogue on Open Dialogue and Hearing Voices: The Role of Sociality in Recovery (In-Person Only) Room 119Murphy Halliburton, PhD Creative Vision Factory: 12 Years of Place-Keeping and Peer Support Through Community Arts Room 123Michael Kalmbach Early Career/Student Case Discussion (In-Person Only) Room 120Nancy Burke, PhD, ABPP Embracing Lived Experience: Insights from Psychosis Experts Room 125Shannon Pagdon, BA • Nev Jones, PhD • Brandon Daniels • Katie Sanford, BA • Stephania Hayes, PhD When a Snowball became an Avalanche: Involuntary Hospitalization and Forced Medication Room 121Burton Seitler, PhD Deparochialising Humanity Virtual OnlySophia Kaur, MSW

2:00pm EDT

Break Lobby Exploring the Intersection of Religious Experiences and Psychosis: Cultural Perspectives and Inclusive Responses LobbyCandice NunnTelfort Recovery Housing: Challenges and Opportunities for People with Histories of Psychosis and Extreme Experiences LobbyHannah Stewart MPH The Role of Spirituality in the Evolution of Voice-Hearing Experiences in Help-Seeking and Non-Help-Seeking Populations LobbyEly Sibarium, BS

2:30pm EDT

Assault Upon Humanity: The Therapy of War Trauma in Ukraine Room 125James Gorney, PhD Bothering with People: Reciprocal Care in a 15 year Psychotherapy Relationship Room 123Sol Pittenger, PsyD Culture of Care: Promoting a Cultural Shift as Early Intervention Room 121Skye Collins Origami and Humanistic Solidarity (In-Person Only) Room 119Toshiko Kobayashi, MA Metanoia: How Psychosis and Paranoia Ignited My Spiritual Transformation Virtual OnlyRicky Derisz OT’s Role in Supporting People with Lived Experiences of Psychosis: An Untapped Source of Support Room 120Carol Lambdin Pattavina, PPOTD, OTR/L, CTP • Stephen Nawotniak, OTR/L, NYCPS

3:30pm EDT

Break Lobby Managing the Crisis and the First Psychotic Episode (FPE): the Brazilian Mental Health Care System Experiences Virtual OnlyVitor Hugo Silva Lima Alves Well-Being in Psychosis: A Holistic Approach for Personal Recovery, Research, and Practice Virtual OnlyChristina L. Thompson, MS

4:00pm EDT

Art Therapy and Psychosis (In-Person Only) Room 119Matthew Eveleigh, ATR-BC, MA Hope without Borders: Tales of Treatment Room 123Michael Montgomery, PhD Make it Your Own Life: Owning and Navigating Psychosis Room 121Mary Clista Dahl, MA Our Uncertainty About What is Real Drives an Othering of Those With Alternate Realities Room 125Irene Hurford, MD Deconstructing Psychosis Teaches Us How to Be with People on Their Madness Journey Virtual OnlyKenneth Kozi Arrington Legacies of Transposition, Traumatic Inductions, and Child Therapy Room 120Claude Barbre, PhD, MDiv, LP

7:00pm EDT

Dinner Off Site

8:00am EDT

Registration and Coffee Lobby

9:00am EDT

9:15am EDT

Keynote: Pancakes, Waffles, or French Toast: What We Define as Psychosis Makes A Difference AuditoriumWillard W. C. Ashley, Sr. M.DIV, D.MIN, SCP, NCPSYA

10:30am EDT

10:45am EDT

Finding Healing in Solidarity: Navigating Systems, Relationships, and Self AuditoriumTricia Stafford • Annie Stafford • Kenny Brown • Amber Brown, MDiv, BS • Claire Bien, MEd • Pat Wright

12:00pm EDT

1:00pm EDT

Do Mental Health Anti-Stigma Campaigns Work? Room 123Michelle Goodwin, MA Healing Personal and Systemic Trauma Through Mutual Humanity Room 125Ben Cooley Hall, PsyD Journeys Beyond the Frontier: A Rebellious Guide to Psychosis and Other Extraordinary Experiences (In-Person Only) Room 119Mark Ragins Postpsychotic Depression: a Good Sign? Room 121Ann Eberhardt, PsyD A Basket of Sañkhya, Holding Ground and a Ground for Life. Yoga Philosophy Embedded with Knowledge, Wisdom and Personal Poetry Virtual OnlyAya De Jager The Rich Vocabularies of the Silent: on Communicating with Psychosis Room 120Sasha Warren

2:00pm EDT

2:30pm EDT

Exiles in New York City: History, Perceptions and Experiences of Living on Ward's Island Room 125Philip Yanos, PhD From Chronic Terror Syndrome to Solidarity with the Self: Steps Toward Integration Room 123Martin Cosgro, PhD Neurodiversity Gifts: Collective Unconscious Ink Blot Art (In-Person Only) Room 119Joshua Roberts, MA • Oryx Cohen, MA Moving Forward by Looking Back: The "Re-Uncovery" Process as a Meaningfulness Approach to Mania and Psychosis Virtual OnlyAndrea Grey, BSc Paul Federn's Approach To Assisting Persons Experiencing Extraordinary Mental and Emotional States Room 120 Psychosis and Cannabis: A First Session Room 121Danielle Knafo, PhD

3:30pm EDT

4:00pm EDT

Decolonizing Mental Health - A Journey of Understanding Room 125Marijosephe (Mija) Bradford, MBA, MA, LPC Early Career/Student Case Discussion (In-Person Only) Room 119Nancy Burke, PhD, ABPP Sacred Meaning Making: What’s Missing from Spiritual Approaches to Extreme States Room 123Vic Welle The Humanity of Gaetano Benedetti, MD, Co-Founder of ISPS Room 120Brian Koehler, PhD, MS Ten Essentials for Psychosis Recovery: Lessons on Balance from a Labyrinth of Lived Experience Room 121Amber Brown, MDiv, BS The Journey Through Extreme States Shows Us Who We Are, Always Human, Sometimes More Virtual OnlyDavid Stark, MS