‘Peace Work’ - This is the title of the next North American Drama Therapy Conference to be held in San Francisco on 31st July to 3rd August 2003. Proposals for papers etc should be in by

9th December 2002. For more details check out

the NADT webiste at www.nadt.org

Rowan Studio: for more information on any of the following contact Dr Sue Jennings on 01458 830434

* Glastonbury calendar - 8 Dec 2002

‘Mandalas’ - theory, practice and personal growth

* Manchester calendar - 22-23 Nov 2002

‘Dramatherapy and playtherapy basics’ - an

introduction

Storytelling Opportunities - for info. on storytelling opportunities contact http://www.storytellingcentre.org.uk

* Edinburgh - The Guid Crack Club meets upstairs in the Waverley Pub, St. Mary’s St. on the last Friday of the month. Hosted by guest storytellers, it is an ideal setting for professional and community storytellers to meet and share tales, music and song in an informal atmosphere (meets 7.30pm, entry by donation £2.50)

* Glasgow - The Better Crack Club meets Tchai Ovna (Tea House), Ottago Lane. A community club for aspiring storytellers who want to improve their skills, become involved in storytelling as apprentices or just sit back and hear tales old and new. For information on dates and times contact Frances Logan fafa.1@ntlworld.com

* Glasgow - The Even Better Crack Club meets on the second Saturday of the month at Lansdowne Church Hall, Kelvinbridge. This is a family club for all ages from 5 to 105. (Meets 10am, admission £1 includes a bag of crisps!) email the Glasgow clubs at

bettercrack@story.freeserve.co.uk

For information on Gestalt Therapy Training Courses in Edinburgh contact Dramatherapist

Colin White at colin.white@totalise.co.uk

Lapidus Writing-Well Seminars, for information on these contact Larry Butler, 14 Garrioch Drive, Glasgow, G20 8RS. All are on Sundays 7-9.30pm.

* 10 Nov 2002 ‘Cancer, Poetry and Healing’

* 15 Dec 2002 ‘Reading and Writing on Prescription - a Doctor’s View’

* 19 Jan 2003 ‘Dementia and Creativity’

* 16 Feb 2003 ‘Ecology and Interdependence’

* 16 March 2003 ‘The Mythical Journey from Suicide in Poetry’.

(a leaflet on these seminars is enclosed with this issue of the DTS newsletter.)

Developing the Mental Health Research Agenda in Partnership with Users and Carers:

* 27 Nov 2002, Dundee Discovery Point - Seminar 2 Making good use of the answers.

Please contact the Event’s secretary for booking details at SDC, 17a Graham Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5QN

The aim of this seminar - taking place in Dundee 27/22/02 - is to raise the profile of mental health research in Scotland and to

advance the agenda using a participative

approach. The seminar will promote user and carer dialogue and is intended to be a

stimulating, challenging and productive

experience for all participants. The speakers, listed below, have been selected to represent particular perspectives - Sue Cowan (Univserity of Abertay), Denise Cola (Greater Glasgow NHS Board), Ron Coleman (Choices), Peter Craig (Chief Scientists

Office), Chris Williams (Glasgow Institute of Psychosocial Interventions.

‘Would Recovery Work in Scotland?’ - this is a Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health Conference being held at the West Park

Conference Centre, Perth Road, Dundee on 13th

November 2002. If you are interested in attending please call 0131 555 5959.

Training and Event Diary!