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The Peer Support Group helps people celebrate the wisdom in madness . Giving the permission and encouragement to liberate ourselves from social norms, stigma, and self-censorship. This touches on a deeply human theme that is both a need and a fear: to be truly seen. The Peer Support Group reminds us that we all have the power to write our own stories and make free choices , even in the midst of chaos and pain.
The Peer Support Group group connects people with like-minded people and focuses on connection and social engagement. It is easier to stand in our authenticity when it is recognized by a supportive community, this breaks through the isolating feeling of 'being different'. People find recognition and belonging in community. Here one can also safely experiment with the kind of roles one would like to take on in the bigger world.
The Peer Support group differs from the traditional peer group in that the emphasis is on ownership rather than victimhood . Existential suffering is seen as a growth phase rather than an end point. We expect a growth mindset from our members, because we know that a crisis leads to transformation and often makes a person richer and stronger than before.
CALL FOR a radical peer support group
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⚡ THE PEER SUPPORT GROUP ON STEROIDS! ⚡
The Group of Allies starts with a bi-weekly sharing circle.
It is a creative breeding ground where we welcome co-creation as
🦅Community Organizers, Artists, Visionaries & Freethinkers .
Even if you are still searching and do not (yet) identify with terms such as freethinker or visionary, you are more than welcome to come and have a look.
🧠🏴☠️🫀For whom? For anyone seeking personal meaning in extraordinary experiences, such as psychological, spiritual or existential crises; or initiations such as psychosis, mania or psychedelic experiences. For anyone who wants to break stigmas around mental health and reflect on what it means to be "crazy" in a crazy world.
🌍🌈✊🕊️JOIN A GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY :
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Creative inspiration
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An empowering narrative about mental health & radical ownership
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Mutual support & recognition
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Where you can be who you are, your story has value and you may share without taboo
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Where altered states of consciousness and psychological suffering are not seen as disease, but as meaningful messengers carrying wisdom
📅 When? Bi-weekly sharing circle on Sunday afternoon
📍 Location? Maasmechelen (exact location after personal contact)
💸 Contribution? Free contribution (for tea & snacks) – 🌈 Everyone is welcome!
🔍How? Participation after completing a super short inspiring questionnaire and personal meetup
🔗 Are you looking for your tribe, deep connection and do you want to strengthen a movement?
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The name Inmost Cave refers to Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey and can be compared to 'the dark night of the soul'. It is sometimes a physical, sometimes a metaphorical space where the hero must face internal and external challenges. It often involves entering a 'dark place', filled with uncertainty and danger.
It is a metaphor for the chaos of a crisis leading to transformation.
How does the group of allies support you?
Inmost Cave aims to create a community of mutual support for people going through a crisis, the group of allie is based on the following foundations:
Peer Support
Social Laboratory
Sovereign Language
Peer Support (as defined by IPS ) is the building of equal and reciprocal relationships. Both parties share responsibility for the relationship and explore their own and the other's worldview. Both parties are both givers and receivers; teachers and students in the peer support relationship. And the deepening of awareness that arises as a result is instructive for all parties.
Safe experimental space for, among other things, forming conscious relationships, community building, strength-based meaning-making, meaningful ritual, the exchange of talents, advocacy, social change, education, art, inspiration, dialogue, mutual support, solidarity, channeling anger, philosophical questions, festivity, ... You co-create the content and can practice the roles you want to take on!
Everyone is the sovereign owner of their inner world and experiences . You may express your inner world in medical language if this works for you. But we also encourage you to experiment with language, word, meaning, metaphor, philosophy, worldview, color, art, feeling, ... Different frameworks make room for different insights and new choices or alternative paths.
Caroline
Inspirer Inmost Cave:
Wild Child/Psychonaut/Student of the Mystery
I know what it's like to be lost...
🐐 My Origin: I Was the Scapegoat 🐐
My name is Caroline. I was the scapegoat in a deeply religious family, a child in youth care with multiple diagnoses and a junkie. In youth care I was demonized for the anger I felt about my home situation. This nested deeply in my self-image and I went through multiple existential crises . Something had to change!
🌱 The Power of Radical Ownership🌱
I have learned to welcome my symptoms as messengers and guides . They have taught me that vulnerability is an unyielding force and interconnectedness is a basic need for growth and healing. I have slowly rewritten the story I want to tell about my life.
🎯 My mission as an expert by experience 🎯
I currently work as an expert by experience in a psychiatric care institution. Here I feel an enormous pressure to conform , because systems strive to maintain their (unhealthy) balance. Experts by experience are inherently a threat to that status quo. This brought me into contact with a deeper need: the need for a sanctuary for and by ourselves: free from (self)stigma or taboo, truly equal and where one is heard instead of diagnosed.
🏴☠️ Inmost Cave: boldness and community as a vision 🏴☠️
With Inmost Cave I want to inspire a wider audience to take the plunge and take control of their lives and recovery. Inmost Cave is the first step to make that sanctuary a reality and to bring together people who want to experiment with other ways of relating and looking at their story. We can also work together with healthcare from here, but in our own direction!
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