Background Info
A process of spiritual emergence or awakening that becomes unmanageable for the individual
What is spiritual crisis?
UK Registered charity and all activities are based on non-profit.
What is SCN's charity model?
Those affected by spiritual crisis, their caretakers, and support professionals.
What is the target population of SCN?
Grants and donations.
What are your main sources of funding?
Can be seen as getting lost in the transliminal, often in response to crisis.
What is SCN's definition of madness?
Solely, local groups dotted throughout the country
What is the location of SCN?
Act as a resource for those who are going through or recovering from spiritual crisis.
What is the mission of SCN?
SCN is affiliated with 24 hour support for those in crisis
What is housing support?
non-hierarchical, fluid, and open.
What is the structure of SCN's staff?
SCN values the lived experience of its members and using these experiences to help others.
What is the importance of peer support?
In addition to in-person and email support groups; run an online peer support group, have a facebook page, and connections to other organizations such as emerging kind.
How does SCN do online outreach?
What is the key tool SCN recommends for getting through spiritual crisis?
What is mindfulness?
How does the spiritual crisis network interact with its service users?
What are email support, peer support groups, awareness and advocacy, volunteer orientation workshops?
Run the in-person local support groups, on call to provide on-going email support, monthly zoom meetings, and planning and administration
What is volunteer involvement?
SCN does not feel comfortable with terms such as mental "disorders" or mental "illness" or the use of medications. They see mental health struggles as a sign there is healing work to do.
What is SCN's view on the dominant biomedical approach?
Bristol, Brighton, Liverpool, London, Sheffield, Northampton, Ashford (Kent).
What are the branches of SCN?
Two elements of wise mind
What is reasonable and emotional mind?
Individuals within the organization have lived personal experience and some have been involuntarily hospitalized.
What are service user experiences with being institutionalized?
Mainly made up of individuals with lived experience, professional knowledge and a combination of the two.
What are the different volunteer background?
Any approach or method that gives a greater understanding and awareness of mental health especially those that do not stigmatize the subjective experience of individuals.
What is SCN's view on the mental health movement?
SCN's main form of contact.
What is email and online support?
SCN does not work from any one specific framework but rather acknowledges that there are a multitude of models such as the shared/unshared model; they offer humanity to those who seek support, not any specific dogmatic models.
What are models of support?
three key phrases of moving successfully through spiritual emergency into emergence?
What is coping with crisis, making sense of it all, and going back out into the world?
No specific resources available, however, the international spiritual emergence network (ISEN) is an active resource.
What are the organizations connections in Canada?
SCN doesn't distinguish between these two, they do not offer a diagnoses and they believe both arise from the same potential of human experiences.
What is the connection between madness and spirituality?