https://www.facebook.com/events/453295358092983/

When? Thursday, June 6 from 5-7pm

Where? McMaster University. Email [email protected] ciety.com for details.

Who? Students from any college, university, or adult education course/program (and people planning to return to school including secondary/high school students transitioning to other educational programs) with personal experiences of psychiatric systems, madness, mental illness, mental health disability, emotional or spiritual distress, etc.

After a crisis, dark time, setback, life change, loss or trauma, how do we gather ourselves together to get on with not dying, living, school, work, relationships, our goals/dreams, and responsibilities? Where do we find our strength, courage, motivation, inspiration, sustenance, tenacity, patience, forgiveness, hope? Join your peers on June 6th for an informal conversation about getting unstuck and moving forward. We welcome new members, frequent faces, and folks we haven’t seen in a while.

Can’t make the meeting? Looking for other support? Join our active email discussion listserv to continue this and other conversations. The listserv is a private place for members to talk about our lives, support each other, discuss ideas, share info/resources/events/news, and arrange local gatherings wherever we happen to be.

Questions? Directions? Nervous? Need Something? For further info, location details, to join the listserv, or if you have accommodation needs, want someone to meet you at the bus stop, or would like to chat with a member before the meeting, please email Alisa and Elizabeth at [email protected] ciety.com.

More about us: Mad Students Society (MSS), created in 2005, is a community of students who are attending or planning to attend post-secondary or adult education institutions and have personal past/present experiences with psychiatric/mental health systems. We meet monthly (in Toronto and Hamilton) and communicate through an email listserv to support each other, discover tools for self-advocacy, and connect with our history and broader social movements. Visit our website at www.madstudentsociety .com or find us on Facebook. We have been hosting peer support meetings in Hamilton since September 2012. There are over 60 local members.

Spread the word! Share this event on Facebook. Email for other ways to support MSS.

Have you heard about Mad Pride Hamilton? MSS members are involved in organizing a consumer/survivor community celebration! Like MP Hamilton on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MadPrideHamilton. Check out the first planning meeting on May 28th: www.facebook.com/events/369564609822441.

As a fundraiser, Mad Pride Hamilton is compiling a zine (a do-it-yourself magazine) of art and writing from Hamilton consumer/survivors. See www.facebook.com/events/248509838623904. Email submissions by June 15th to [email protected] ail.com.