Hertfordshire Conference:

Glen Roberts - Consultant Psychiatrist, Recovery and Rehab at the Devon Partnership NHS Trust,
Laurie Davidson - Practice Development Manager at the Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Elaine Hewis - freelance trainer and service user consultant
and Richard Brabrook - from the Learning and Development department of MIND in Exeter and East Devon
travelled up to Hertfordshire, on 18th and 19th September 2007, to give a key note speach at the University of Hertfordshire's Conference entitled "From Here to Recovery - Transforming the Journey"

As well as the keynote speach entitled "Recovery: from rhetoric to reality, The story (to date) of RecoveryDevon and Recovery in Devon", we gave two symposia's entitled "Developing STR workers as Recovery Coaches Symposia" and "Is it possible to develop recovery based practice with people detained in hospital and subject to compulsory treatment?"

There were lots of keynote speakers:

• Dr Helen Glover from Queensland, Australia
• Dr Barbara Tooth from Wollongong University, Australia
• Dr Vaidyanathan Kalyanasundaram from Brisbane, Australia
• Professor Larry Davidson from Yale University, USA
• Dietra Hawkins a psychologist from Yale University, USA
• Professor Shula Ramon from Hertfordshire University, UK
• Alain Topor a psychologist from Stockholm
• Professor Courtenay Harding from Boston University, USA
• Professor Priscilla Ridgeway from Yale University, USA
• Dr Roberto Mezzina, a psychiatrist from Trieste, Italy
• David Stayner and Dietra Hawkins from ????

As well as the Keynote speakers, there were many Symposia's that were delivered over the two days. The keynote presentations and a DVD of the presentations will be available soon for viewing at the conference homepage, hosted by the University of Hertfordshire.

As well as the conference, there was the first meeting of the UK Recovery Network which has been named N.O.R.A.

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