The Farm at Cedar Woods offers farm worker and food preparation training, along with therapeutic horticulture
Cedar Woods Farm—located in Cedar, B.C.—describes itself as a 28 acre healing environment; it offers horticultural therapy and training programs for people with barriers. The Farm uses chemical-free methods to grow vegetables, fruit and herbs in a fenced three acre market garden and a barrier-free herb garden. Program participants learn and work in a socially supportive environment. The Farm works to model a mutually supportive, nurturing community guided by principles of empowerment and sustainability. (more…)
What eventually became known as Alcoholics Anonymous began in Akron, Ohio, on June 10th, 1935, as a former New York stockbroker, Bill W spent an afternoon and evening with an Akron surgeon, Dr. Bob S, sharing his drinking experiences and his inability to stop of his own will. The two men went on to rebuild their lives with a 12-step approach to living.
In 1997, while attending university, Michael Crane was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. In recent years he has been working to try and find new and progressive ways to help others who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, their families and friends, and people who work in the field of mental health.
A ten session education program for family and friends of people with serious and persistent mental illnesses begins April 7, 2010 in Nanaimo. The course deals with five major mental health disorders: schizophrenia, clinical depression, bipolar, anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorders.
Two students from Ottawa’s Canterbury High School have created a theatre production based on overcoming unhealthy body image. The play, called “Enough: A Whimsical and Political Statement About Beauty and Self-Image,” was recently presented on the Fourth Stage of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
Very little is known about how people successfully self-manage their bipolar disorder (BD). Information about people living successfully with BD isn’t nearly as easy to find, for example, as information about disability or dysfunction.