To mark University Mental Health Day 2015, Leeds Beckett University is proud to host an afternoon of inspiring talks from eminent speakers in the world of mental health
Please join us for what is set to be a thoroughly inspiring afternoon conference. Tickets are free, bookable by EventBrite. The conference runs from 13:00-17:00pm
Please register via Eventbrite for your free ticket
(PLEASE NOTE: due to the popularity of this event, a second overflow lecture theatre has been booked. Registration is now for the overflow seating)
Dr Eleanor Longden
“Hearing Voices: Recovery and Discovery."
Dr Eleanor Longden is a research associate at the University of Liverpool’s Psychosis Research Group with a specialist interest in voice hearing, trauma, and dissociation. After working for five years in an Early Intervention in Psychosis Service in the UK, she now does full time research and training and has lectured and published internationally on ways of understanding and recovering from psychosis, including events for TED and the World Health Organisation.
Dr Mark Williams
“Mindfulness – from theory to practice”
What is mindfulness? Who is it for? Does it work? How does it work? What implications might it have for us?
Professor Mark Williams is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and was Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre until his retirement in 2013. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy and the US Association for Psychological Science.
Professor Williams, along with colleagues John Teasdale (Cambridge) and Zindel Segal (Toronto), developed Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for prevention of relapse and recurrence in major depression..
Dr Oliver James
“'Staying Sane in a Mad Post-Blatherite World”
Oliver James is a chartered psychologist. He qualified as a clinical psychologist and practised as one in an NHS post for six years. He is the author of the books: