Note that offering free support groups for many years in Northampton, these services are now being offered by the peer run Recovery Learning Community in Holyoke. The Freedom Center community sometimes also organizes groups and meetings depending on local interest, so check the Freedom Center homepage for updates. THANKS!

The Freedom Center along with Arise for Social Justice and Outnow of Springfield is co-sponsoring a SPA NIGHT!!

Come get massage, acupuncture, or reiki for the revolution!

Relax, rejuvinate and support revolutionaries!!

Gail Hornstein talks about her new book
Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness

next Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 6.30pm at the
Holyoke Public Library Community Room, Holyoke, MA

Free and Open to the Public, all welcome

Parking  behind library on Chestnut Street
Use entrance from Parking Lot & elevator to 2nd floor
For information: 413-532-2081

Listen to radio interviews with Gail here.

Freedom Center helped start Hearing Voices groups in the Western Massachusetts area and beyond - to find out more information, contact the Recovery Learning Community, which is actively involved with organizing Hearing Voices groups in the area. Thanks!

 

Hearing Voices groups are popular and fairly widespread in Europe, specially England. Hearing Voices groups do not pathologize the experience of hearing voices or experiencing other altered states, instead they ask the voice hearer: What do the voices mean to you? Join us for the first Hearing Voices group east of Wisconsin and share and get support from others with similar experiences! *Co-sponsored by the Center for Human
Development, RLC and the Freedom Center.*

Congratulations Gail!

 

Agnes’s Jacket
A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness
Gail A. Hornstein

 

Please note; After Freedom Center offering free weekly yoga classes for many years, similar services are now being organizing by the Recovery Learning Community; contact them to find out more. Thanks!

We have free weekly yoga classes in downtown Northampton!

 

Freedom Center organizer Caty Simon is attending the Community Activation Network's Community Power Kickoff to represent us and would like other Freedom Center members & people interested in the mad movement to join her. The event is on DATE CHANGE March 28th at Hampshire College. 12-6PM--you'll be
directed by signs as soon as you get there showing you specifically where to go.

Here's a quick summary of the event.

These are older events. For more recent past events, check our Past Events page here.

 

Drugging Our Distress?
A Broader Look At Medication and Mental Illness

Freedom Center is organizing a spring Speak Out and we want your help! Join slam poet and mental health activist Leah Harris from DC, Caty Simon, Lee Hurter and others. We need speakers and volunteers for this upcoming event -- get in touch with caty(at)freedom-center(dot)org.

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Freedom Center is seven years old!

To celebrate our birthday, and the honor of being recognized by Forbes,  Freedom Center will host a special event to screen the video at its "Lucky 7 Psychosocial" party on

September 20th at 6 pm

World War II Club

50 Conz St., Northampton, MA.

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Press Release
Contact: Erika Arthur 413/ 253-5432

*erika@foodforthoughtbooks.com* <erika@foodforthoughtbooks.com>

Are You *Surviving America's Depression Epidemic*?

*Author Bruce Levine to Present at Food for Thought Books*
AMHERST – Author Bruce Levine will present and read from his new book,
*Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy* at 7 pm on Tuesday, March 25 at Food for Thought Books in Amherst.

Please forward

Tues February 5th
7pm

Broadside Bookshop 247 Main St Northampton MA

Discussion with Will Hall, author of the new

*Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs*

 

 

 

 

 

Acupuncture will be cancelled this week, 1/14/08. Please join us next week!

GATE OF LIFE ACUPUNCTURE Warmly invites you to attend an OPEN HOUSE with Barbara Weinberg, Lic., Ac, RN

Wed, October 3rd, 6:30 arrival, 7-9pm: Presentation or Sat, October 27th, 3:30 arrival, 4-6pm: Presentation

Download flyer here.

The new writing group is 2-3 on Wednesdays. At >> Windhorse Associates: 211 North Street, in Northampton >> (Market St turns into North St.) >> >> Our first meeting will be this Wednesday and all are >> welcome but the group limit is 10, so it is first come >> first serve. If you email me, I will reserve you a >> space. >> >> This group is sponsored by Freedom Center, the RLC, >> and Windhorse. I will be leading it with Dave Stark, >> a hilarious and witty writer. >> >> Please feel free to bring some writing to work on and >> share-specifically memoir, non fiction and poetry. But bring anything >> you want to share, even if it is in >> another category. >> >> At the first session, everyone's requests and ideas