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The Icarus Project: 10th Anniversary Celebration
The Icarus Project~10 Year Anniversary Celebration Thursday, Sep 20, 2012 6:00p to 7:00p El RioSan Francisco, CA     read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - September 19, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Source Type: blogs

Mindful Occupation Booklet now at AK Press!
We're excited to announce that the Icarus-inspired booklet "Mindful Occupation: Rising Up Without Burning Out" is now available from AK Press. http://www.akpress.org/mindful-occupation.html (And of course, available for free download for printing, reading, or distributing from the M/O website at: http://mindfuloccupation.org/)   "There is an urgent need to talk publicly about the relationship between social injustice and our mental health. We need to start redefining what it actually means to be mentally healthy, not just on an individual level, but on collective, communal, and global levels. This booklet is a va...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - September 10, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: icarus downloads icarus press popular education materials Source Type: blogs

New 10th Anniversary Posters
  Sarah Quinter has made us an amazing new poster for the 10th Anniversary. We'll post post the B&W and full color versions here for download as they become available. Please feel free to download and put up around your town!  read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - September 5, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: silverelf Tags: 10thanniversary Source Type: blogs

Interviews with Icaristas
Laura-Marie is a long-time Icarus member based in Sacramento who has been interviewing folks involved in the Icarus Project for her zine Funtionally Ill.  In celebration of our 10th anniversary we are going to reprint a bunch of the interviews she's already done, and for anyone who's interested in being interviewed over email yourself, get in touch with her read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - August 29, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: scatter Tags: 10thanniversary Source Type: blogs

The Voices of Our Icarus People
“These forums saved my life, many times. People mentored me there, and gave me skills. Things I never would have thought of. These people and these skills are/were/will always be invaluable to my existence…[O]verwhelmingly, they gave me hope when I had none and MADE ME FEEL NOT ALONE. I am deeply, profoundly, eternally thankful for the Icarus forums." read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - August 29, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: scatter Tags: 10thanniversary Source Type: blogs

Creating an Icarus Mentorship Network
Icarus has been around for a decade. There are all these people who love Icarus, who identify with its vision, have been influenced by its writings and art and community, who are doing good work in the world and being articulate and making beautiful things that make the world a better place. Creating a network of individuals who feel aligned with Icarus would be a way to channel some of that energy and make it easier for people to find one another.     read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - August 28, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: scatter Tags: 10thanniversary Source Type: blogs

Mad Brilliance in Motion - A Collaborative Video Project
Mad Brilliance in Motion is a collaborative video project that seeks to gather the collective narrative of The Icarus Project in multimedia form. We are seeking contributions of video pod's (3-7minute mini-video's) featuring words, images and audio files generated by Icarus members to create a collection of moving mosaics that represent this vibrant, diverse community of people exploring the space between madness and brilliance. Videos will be posted to a youtube account held by The Icarus Project for the purpose of giving voice and movement to the stories that we have captured and created on these pages ...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - August 20, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: 10thanniversary Source Type: blogs

"Depression" in 20 words or less - 2
A new booklet with a selection of quotes from this forum thread put together with images. read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - August 10, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: maamyyrä Tags: art booklet darkness depression despair download forums icarus downloads quotes Resources Source Type: blogs

Join the Icarus 10th Anniversary Video Project!
The Icarus Project is looking for video entries to be featured in an upcoming 10th anniversary web video currently in production. The vision is to have a montage of faces and voices each reading one of their favorite lines from an Icarus Project publication, meeting agreements, mission statement, conversations on the website, lines from Crooked Beauty, or anywhere that has been inspiring to you.   read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - August 8, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: scatter Tags: 10thanniversary Source Type: blogs

A Collective Human Potential Movement
To change the way our society thinks it is going to take a combination of inspiring vision, face to face organizing, while being grounded in practices that enable us to tune into something greater than ourselves. A Mental Health Recovery Movement is a good start, but frankly I am more interested in a movement that uses the language of “transformation”, a movement that recognizes the powerful of our collective potential to transform the world, that isn’t willing to compromise our visions of a better world, has the ability to capture many people’s imaginations, and is capable of building coalitions across many bounda...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - July 27, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: scatter Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

Coming Off Medications Guide Second Edition!
The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, published by The Icarus Project and Freedom Center five years ago, is now available in a revised edition!The new second edition has expanded Resources, scores of new collaborators and Advisors, new topics, more detail on the reducing and coming off process, and additional ideas for harm reduction and staying on medications.Thousands of people worldwide have used this Guide to help themselves and people they know become more empowered around medications, including coming off. Even professionals and mental health agency staff have been downloading the free guide,...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - July 11, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: alternative treatments books coming off meds/withdrawal dealing with crisis drugs icarus downloads mainstream treatments news popular education materials Source Type: blogs

Mad Dance funded
'Mad Dance: A Mental Health Film Trilogy' has reached it's pledge goal!!!  Mad thanks to all those who pledged. There's still 3 days left until the campaign ends. Your last minute, humble contributions will assure that my luminous and transformative project sees the light of the screen, and delight in your hearts. The donor gifts are phenomenal.read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - July 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: filmboy Source Type: blogs

Mad Dance: A Mental Health Film Trilogy
Greetings, Icaristas. I'm thrilled to share my beautiful and provocative project with you, Mad Dance: A Mental Health Film Trilogy. These films re-envision the way we think and speak about our individual and collective mental health in today's chaotic world. Check out the 5-minute video (best viewed smaller) on Kickstarter, and if you find the project unique, transformative, and enlightening, please contribute to its success today. The donor gifts are phenomenal!read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - June 13, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: filmboy Source Type: blogs