Lorna Collins

Early Eurostar to Brussels, then Leuven, to give a fairly radical talk for the big launch of #Coconuts ❤️🥳👀

Many exciting things are happening. Watch this space. #ACreativeTransformation

@headwayuk.bsky.social
@uclh.bsky.social
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
Coconuts, Belgium
University of Messina, Sicily
and more.

#acquiredbraininjury #recovery #psychosis #organicpsychosis #art #community

Nevertheless, she persisted (see text in the picture)…

In the midst of #ACreativeTransformation in Manchester with workshop leader Eleanor May Blackburn. We all wrote something unique, but were united in our earnestness to express ourselves, given the opportunity, the stimulus and freedom to say what we want. A special moment.
Report out soon🌟
#writing

ACT 2 in Birmingham: The brain, psychosis and AI technology An experimental workshop for clinicians, researchers, people with lived experience

Are you interested in #AI healthcare technology, #psychosis and #acquiredbraininjury? We are running an experimental workshop discussing these things with #ACreativeTransformation at Birmingham University on May 19. Very limited spaces, sign up now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/act-2-in-b...

I am at Euston station heading up 🔝 for #ACreativeTransformation in Manchester! A writing workshop for young people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury. Epic 🌟☄️✨

I am absolutely thrilled to have a feature in @headwayuk.bsky.social's Spring newsletter. This is about my story of recovery, my work with #ACreativeTransformation and how I advocate using the arts to support living with acquired brain injury. www.headway.org.uk/media/12887/...

There are a few spaces left in the #ACreativeTransformation writing workshop for young people and young carers of people with lived experience of brain injury in Manchester on April 4.

Don’t miss this opportunity, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...

Please tell everyone you know!

On a good day Action for Brain Injury Week (ABI Week), 'On a good day, ' is Headway’s 2025 campaign to raise awareness and understanding of brain injury.

I am featured on the @headwayuk.bsky.social soft launch/teaser of the 'Action for Brain Injury Week' campaign. More soon!
www.headway.org.uk/news-and-cam...
#acquiredbraininjury #ABI #traumaticbraininjury #TBI

Traumatic brain injury has long-lasting mental health effects Lorna Collins considers an umbrella review of health outcomes following traumatic brain injury published in Nature Mental Health.

My latest review for @thementalelf.bsky.social discusses the impact of traumatic brain injury on mental health. Research on this theme is limited & flawed. We need stronger science to support better treatments; the effects of TBI can be enduring & severe.
www.nationalelfservice.net/other-health...

Yesterday I was squawking at Malorees Junior School! I gave 6 classes to little people in years 3, 4 and 6. We made up incredible stories, performed them and started writing. These sessions were based on my beloved “Squawk: A Book of Bird Adventures”, which you can buy here: amzn.eu/d/i4AmP08

FULL PROGRAM - A. Y. 2024-2025 The PhenoLab activities will start on September 14, 2024 Lectures and discussions will be held in English. For any query or information, an...

Today I'm speaking with @roxanabaiasu.bsky.social at @phenolab.bsky.social on 'Transformative Paradoxes of Mad Sense', a talk based on lived experience, art practice & philosophical reflections (post-structuralism, existentialism, phenomenology) on madness and sense...being human. shorturl.at/oxw6S

#ACreativeTransformation live

Here it is: “ACT2 on NRU”
Using visual arts to tell our stories after brain injury, a course of art workshops with inpatients at the Neurorehabilitation Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, April-May 2025.
Find out more: email lorna.collins6@nhs.net
acreativetransformation.org

Writing for wellbeing through lived experience of brain injury For young people and young carers (aged 16-25) of people with lived experience of brain injury.

I'm very keen to connect with young people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury for a free writing for wellbeing workshop in #Manchester on March 7. Travel expenses paid (up to £30 per participant).
Please connect, share info around all your networks: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...

Everyone needs a ginger cat in their lives. Here is Mr. Tigga, purring, determined to preen away all our worries or concerns. The phone is in the way, sorry Mr. T. He's determined to get as close as possible ...❤️‍🩹...

Psychopathology, Exhaustion, and Identity Diagnostic manuals cannot tell us who we “really” are

Making sense of one’s identity in the context of psychopathology is a question of such enormous difficulty that it eventually exhausts us.

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/psychopath...

Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist Susan Mahler, MS, MD, is a writer and psychiatrist who practices in North Adams, MA.

Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist

A guest essay by the psychiatrist Susan Mahler on her experience of depression (including treatments with ECT) and how she finds herself in a position where both lived and professional experience are failing her

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/confession...

International Merleau-Ponty circle on health and healing

It’s very wet and blowy…I’m in Stratford, bringing #ACreativeTransformation to @ucl.ac.uk. I'm meeting a student who is joining and evaluating the project, and giving a #LivedExperience seminar about the brain, trauma and creativity. It is always inspiring to meet the MASc #CreativeHealth students!

I will be a co-facilitator at this event. If you are in the UK and work with (or know any) young people who have experienced brain injury, please share 🙏

Lived experience involvement in co-developing outcome measures. Laura Hemming blogs a systematic review which explores the involvement people with lived experience in the co-development of mental health outcome measures.

Tell me what you want, what you really really want: lived experience involvement in co-developing outcome measures www.nationalelfservice.net?p=212822

"Have you ever asked people with lived experience what they think the main outcomes of your study should be?"

Exciting update about our writing workshop for young people in Manchester. We can give each participant up to £30 to support travel expenses to attend the event. If you are interested in joining us do get in touch, we would love to support you to come along. Sign up here: shorturl.at/daPPU

Today I am at the Neurorehabilitation Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, planning the course of workshops we are running for inpatients in the Spring. I am excited, grateful and feeling very creative with this opportunity. #ACreativeTransformation

Writing for wellbeing through lived experience of brain injury For young people and young carers (aged 16-25) of people with lived experience of brain injury.

Looking for young people and young carers (age 16-25) of people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury for a writing workshop in Manchester on 7th March, 13:00-15:00.
For more information and to sign up for this free event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...
Please tell everyone you know!

Awesome day with #ACreativeTransformation at Headway Surrey. We were recruiting participants to make films called 'User guides to acquired brain injury', made by and for people with lived experience. Great to work with project partner Beth and the Headway team in this exciting, creative venture.

This is part of #ACreativeTransformation ACT 2 funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. Exploring prompts, questions and free writing, we will express our lived experience in a supportive and richly creative environment. Free to join with limited spaces so sign up! Please share+tell your friends.

‘Writing for wellbeing through lived experience of brain injury’, a workshop on March 7th for young people + young carers (aged 16-25) of people with #livedexperience of #braininjury, led by neurodivergent actor/poet Eleanor Blackburn at 42nd Street, Manchester. Sign up here: bit.ly/WritingForWe...

It is a strange experience to be reading a review of the immensely stimulating 'Too Mad to be True III: The Paradoxes of Madness' conference, only to discover a discussion of my very own intervention. MAD FAME! open.substack.com/pub/awaisaft...
#madsky #philsky #philosky

Thank you Agnes xxx