Firstly if you’ve tried to order between January-March and have not had a response from us. Please contact us again. Our email server was down and lost some of our messages.

Secondly, B.A.R.M.H.C will be tabling at the following events:
 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair March 22 in SF
http://sfbookfair.wordpress.com/

Finding Our Roots Anarchist Conference in Chicago April 18-21, 2008
http://mayfirst.wordpress.com/

Soma is a series of sessions/experiences using body games to create a group dynamic, inspired by principles of self-organisation and solidarity. When Roberto Freire created ‘Soma – an anarchist therapy’ in Brazil, more than thirty years ago, he was looking for therapeutic methodologies that could help people emotionally who were fighting against the military dictatorship. Changing therapy into experiment, we have turned the Soma (which means ‘totality of being’ in Greek) approach away from an emphasis on neurosis (we have something wrong) towards the gaining of skills (we can learn something new).

This approach breaks with the traditional rational way to develop skills, where the mind is split from the body, the individual removed from its surroundings. Soma games are proposals to play in a group - sharing experiences of collaboration, trust and responsibility. It’s this group dynamic created by Soma games that stimulate the whole being to engage with the world. After the games, the participants will process their experience, talking about their perceptions and behavior playing together.

The body is the material to work with: movement, perception and contact with each other to dare to be creative in everyday life. Play is a way to rediscover the body, just as collaboration helps to rediscover relationships.

Traditionally, the series of Soma sessions extends over a year’s time, and involves the martial art, Capoeira Angola. These two workshops will be an introduction to the process and kinds of games used in a Soma group. They will be led by Arthur Swindells, who has been involved with Soma activities in London for three years, with Jorge Goia.

FIRST WORKSHOP: at the Suigetsukan Dojo, 103 International Blvd, right by Lake Merrit in Oakland. 7PM-10PM, Sunday, Jan. 27

SECOND WORKSHOP: at Station 40, 3030b 16th st. (at Mission) in SF. 7PM-10PM, Tuesday, Jan. 29

Suggested Donation: $3-$5. No one turned away for lack of funds.

will be….

Monday January 7th, 2008
2231 Ashby Ave
Berkeley CA

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e-mail with ?’s
lunacydistro@riseup.net

Next Radical Mental Health Meeting
starts at 5pm

See you then….
All are welcome

NEXT MEETING:
Hello - we will be having a get together
Thursday December 20th where we will be
reading mental health zines and re-viewing them for the
web site and zine distro. If you have a zine or book
you would like to see added to the distro please
bring that as well.

www.radicalmentalhealth.net

5pm - 7pm sharp
bring a laptop if you have one
bring dinner sorrta stuff if you can (theres a trader joes across the street)
bring a friend
being a story
ok well just bring you…. thats great by itself.

E_MAIL: lunacydistro@riseup.net for directions

bus lines take you right there www.511.org
also a quick bike ride from 19th street or lake merritt bart’s

see you then - BARHM

Have questions about life, love, sex, work. Tired of boring advice columns from people who couldn’t possibly understand you.

Check out our new site here

Sunday December 9th
4pm
2231 Ashby Avenue - You’ll see a wooden fence with Cell Phones on it.

As you all may have noticed, the Bay Area Radical Mental Health
Collective has been on a bit of a hiatus for the last few months. But
inspirations has struck once again, and we’re ready to regroup, and
figure out what we want to do next, and what is sustainable for all
involved. To that end the collective will be meeting on Sunday,
December 9th, from 4-6pm, in Berkeley, and we’d love to meet others in
the community who would like to work with us. If you are interested in
participating, please get in touch for the location.

In Solidarity,
Isis

You’re INVITED:
Instigating The Icarus Project: Five Year Anniversary Party!
Community Potluck, Story-Sharing, and Performances
Saturday November 24th 6pm-9pm

AK Press Warehouse, 674-A 23rd Street, Oakland, CA
(between San Pablo and Telegraph, accessible from 19th street BART
station)

From one person’s story in the SF Bay Guardian to a blossoming
international activism & support network, The Icarus Project has
touched the lives of
thousands of people with its powerful metaphors and radical message.
Over the last five years this work has helped redefine social
conceptions of “mental illness” for a generation raised on Prozac and
“Oppositional Defiant Disorder.”

Come celebrate Mad Pride Community with a bunch of the projects
founders and behind the scenes movers and shakers that
help make the Icarus Project
happen. Come share your own story/performance about Icarus and/or
radical mental health, bring your favorite dish or thnxgiving leftovers, make a mad
pride music mix disc to listen or swap, hear tales from our recent adventures, check out new publications and
help dream up the next five years to come.

Please fwd to folks you think would want to take part. Thank you! w/
Big Mad Love on the Aspire!

http://theicarusproject.net

a short piece on Icarus aired this past wknd on NPR/National Public
Radio.

see pics & listen to it here:

http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/2007/11/10/
mad_pride_at_virgini.html

RSVP to:

madigan@theicarusproject.net

Sharing Radical Mental Health in a World Gone Mad!

September 11, 2005
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