In moments when the world feels like it’s unraveling—or tightening into something unbearable—we don’t need platitudes. We need presence.
This opening spoken word piece is the heartbeat of Underground Transmissions: a call to stay with complexity, to track the patterns inside and out, to become the ones who know how to work the knots. It clocks in at just over 3 minutes.
It draws from Internal Family Systems, systemic family therapy, and mad movement wisdom. It’s about grief, rage, projection, tenderness. About learning to zoom out and zoom in until we find the thread.
There’s no savior with scissors. But there are tools. And there is a movement rising.
Listen now.
If it resonates, share it.
If you’re sitting with your own knot—come sit with us.
“Tension isn’t always destruction—it’s often the signal that something real is trying to change.”
Audio: Words and Voice by Sascha. Mix by Baba Israel
Some of Our Friends in the Movement and the Badass Work They Are Doing:
Wildflower Alliance/Alternatives to Suicide
When Conversation Turns to Suicide is a 16-hour training based in the Alternatives to Suicide approach, and intended as an alternative to ASIST, QPR, and similar approaches that remain rooted in conventional medicalized systems. This training is open to providers, family members, peer supports, first responders, and anyone else who wants to learn how to offer support to someone who is suicidal.
Caroline Rivkah Mazel-Carlton says:
“You DO NOT have to be a mental health professional to take this training. We will be learning highly accessible dialogue strategies for supporting folks who are considering suicide... with time for UNLEARNING ineffective and outdated responses…This is also a great training for folks called to do ADVOCACY and SYSTEM CHANGE work to address rising rates of suicide in their communities.
Intentional Peer Support
Intentional Peer Support provides a powerful framework for creating relationships where both people learn and grow together. We offer a range of trainings to examine and practice what is necessary to build mutual support.
Peers come together around shared experiences, often driven by a desire to change lives. But without a new framework to build upon, people frequently re-enact “help” based on what was done to them.
IPS offers a foundation for doing something different. We come from a history of grassroots alternatives that focus on building relationships that are mutual, explorative and conscious of power.
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Why IPS? Peers come together around shared experiences and often a desire to change lives. But without a new framework to build upon, people frequently re-enact “help” based on what was done to them. IPS offers a foundation for doing something different. We come from a history of grassroots alternatives that focus on building relationships that are mutual, explorative, and conscious of power.
In this three hour online overview participants will learn about the history of IPS as well as the tasks and principles of this transformational framework. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and have interactive discussions with the facilitators and other participants.
Madness Radio
Grand Rounds UCSF Psychiatry – Will Hall
Will Hall’s June 2024 Grand Rounds talk at University of California San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences – where he was locked up as a young man! – titled “New Visions of Psychosis: Abolition as Clinical Best Practice.” Revenge is a dish best served cold.
ISPS-US
ISPS-US stands for the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis – United States. It is the U.S. chapter of a global organization dedicated to promoting humane, person-centered, and socially informed approaches to understanding and supporting individuals experiencing psychosis or extreme states. Founded in 1998, ISPS-US brings together clinicians, researchers, individuals with lived experience, family members, and advocates to foster dialogue, education, and systemic change in mental health care.
***This Conference is Going to Be Fucking Awesome***
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