This year’s Design in Mental Health Awards celebrated excellence in six categories, and saw an impassioned after-dinner speech by Dr Jacqui Dillon, an activist, writer, and speaker, who suffered childhood abuse, and now lectures worldwide on trauma, abuse, psychosis, dissociation, and healing.
The Design in Mental Health Awards 2018, held at the National Motorcycle Museum on the evening of 15 May, celebrated excellence in six categories, and saw an impassioned after-dinner address by Dr Jacqui Dillon, a respected activist, writer, and speaker, who suffered childhood abuse herself, and has lectured and published worldwide on trauma, abuse, psychosis, dissociation, and healing. The Network’s editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports
The 2018 Design in Mental Health Awards Dinner, and a preceding drinks reception, were held in the Imperial Suite at the National Motorcycle Museum near Solihull on the evening of the first day of Design in Mental Health 2018. After the guests were seated, DIMHN chair, Jenny Gill, gave a short welcome address, and introduced the night’s guest speaker, Jacqui Dillon, who described some of her own experiences of mental trauma as a child, before going on to explain how she had turned her profoundly negative early experiences in a positive direction later in life by working to help others who had suffered similar abuse.
SPEAKER’S EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE
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