SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS CV
May 2003 – Launchpad (Newcastle) ‘How writing saved my life’
20th August 2003 Radio 100 NL – Radio Interview
9th October 2003 - World Mental Health Day – NHS event in South London
27th May 2004 - Waterstones Amsterdam – ‘Underground writing is alive and well’
23rd June 2004 – Camberwell Arts Week – ‘Without mad people where would the arts be?’
October 2004 - Mad Chicks Radio - Resonance Radio
27th November 2004 – Mad Chicks London – ‘Creative Subversion’
December 2004 - Lambeth Mind AGM – ‘Creativity in Mental Health’
18th March 2005 – London City Hall – ‘What is Mad Culture?’
23rd June 2005 – Royal College of Psychiatry
Conference Edinburgh –
‘What happens to your patient once they leave the consulting room?’
10th October 2005 – Wolfson College, Oxford
University –
‘From Goldfish Bowl to Ocean’.
23rd March 2006 - Disability Capital Conference - 'Rights, Charity, Services or Campaigns'
May 2006 - Radio 4 'Between Ourselves' - Schizophrenia
Nov 2006, Radio 4 'Am I Normal?'
Dec 2006 Radio 4 'World Service Health Check
Jan 2007, Radio 5 Live, Mental Health Special Edition
June 2007, PgDip in CBT for Psychosis, Institute of Psychiatry
July 2007, Mad Words, Resourse, Reading
March 2008, Southwark Mind Women's Conference
March 2008, London Hearing Voices Groups Project - BME Event
May 2008, Recovery Group, Streatham Mental Health Centre
May 2008, teaching on the PgDip in CBT for Psychosis, IOP
June 2008, teaching on the Pg Dip in CBT for Psychosis, IOP
June 2008, Mental Health in Minority Ethnic Communities, Dipex, University of Westminister
July 2008, Hope, Resilence and Recovery Training, Lambeth Hospital
August 2008, Lambeth PCT -User and Carer Steering Group, Lambeth Accord
SUBJECTS:
Writing, Arts, Creativity, Film, Racial Issues, Gay Issues, Women Issues,
Child Abuse, Mad Culture, Discrimination, Humour, Empowerment, Publishing,
Underground Culture, Self-Improvement, General Disability, Spirituality.
QUOTES ABOUT DOLLY
"You bring tears to my eyes." Rachel Anderson, South London Gallery
"Inspiring." John Bird, co-founder of The Big Issue