Sarah K Reece skreece1@gmail.

com Education and Training 2012 Adelaide College of the Arts Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design (ongoing) Community Arts Network SmART Training Develop Funds and Resources 1 day (as part of a Cert IV in Business Skills, ongoing) Radio Adelaide Radio and Online Contributors Course 6 weeks (as part of a Cert III in Media, ongoing) Tafe SA/Baptist Care/MIFSA Cert IV Mental Health Peer Work 1 semester (ongoing) 2011 Health Consumers Alliance Public Speaking Training 2 days Advocacy Training 1 day Community Arts Network SmART Training (as part of a Cert IV in Business Skills, ongoing) Plan and Program Events 2 days Cultivate Productive Relationships 1 day MIFSA Maybo Conflict Resolution 1 day Taking Support Calls 1/2day WEA 4 classes, including Introduction to Australian Sign Language TAFE Jewellery Fundamentals 1 term (high distinction) Small Object Making Fundamentals 1 term (high distinction) 2010 Carer Support Mental Health First Aid 1 day Tobacco Project Be Tobacco/Smoke Free 1 day MIFSA/Baptist Care Introduction to Peer Work 6 days TAFE Printmaking Fundamentals 1 term (high distinction) Sarah K Reece resume Page 1

WEA 9 classes of various lengths, including 5 of 1 term commitment 2007 University of Adelaide Psychology 1B, 1 semester (high distinction) Psychology 1A, 1 semester (distinction)

2001 Amigos The Second Story Peer Consultant (Mental Health)

Employment History 2012 MIFSA Lead facilitator Dec 2011 current (casual) Paid position giving talks about mental health in a variety of community settings. My role is to deliver accurate, relevant information in an engaging and respectful manner, and additionally to provide support for a community educator (peer worker) to share their experiences. Group co-facilitator Jan 2011 current (casual) Volunteer position supporting two groups, Sound Minds for people who hear voices, and Bridges for people who experience dissociation and/or multiplicity. My role is to welcome and orient new members, provide information about managing these conditions, share personal experiences when appropriate, model and maintain healthy group norms, and take support calls. Mental Health Educator Sept 2010 current (casual) Paid position to write and deliver talks about my personal experiences with mental illness and recovery, alongside education about poorly understood experiences such as dissociation and commonly useful strategies to manage it. Independent Peer Worker 2010 current Volunteer role writing and giving talks about my experiences with various organisations and in a number of different settings. For example; Voices Vic Conference, 2012 Melbourne - Abstracts accepted for 2 half hour talks; Voices and Dissociation 30 minute presentation, and Beyond Voices, the broader applicability of the Voice Hearer Group Model 30 minute presentation with co-speaker FAHCSIA Peer Work Forum, 2011 Melbourne Peer Workers, a consumer perspective 20 min presentation (invited by David Meldrum, MIFA) Open Your Mind Launch, 2011 (Poetry event, Mental Health week) Creativity 10 min Sarah K Reece resume Page 2

presentation (invited by Jude Aquilina, SA Writer's Centre) TheMHS, 2011 Managing Dissociation 20 min presentation with colleague Cary Nayda, and 3,000 word paper accepted for publication in TheMHS Book of Proceedings, Recommended Reading. Maintaining a freely accessible personal blog at sarahkreece.blogspot.com.au with daily updates and regular articles about mental health and recovery, based on my experiences and reading. Contributor and volunteer with Mindshare.org.au online community sharing about mental illness Member of advisory group for the HCA Anti Stigma Campaign: PEARLS Chair of the Dissociative Initiative, a small community group working to improve information and resources about dissociation. Editor of free monthly newsletter Dissociation Link. Written and now maintain the website dissociationlink.blogspot.com.au to deliver the newsletter Dissociation Link and be a hub of information about dissociation. Written the MIFSA fact sheets Introducing DID, and Managing Dissociation.

Artist 2012 - current Ekphrastic exhibition, Broken Hill Wrote and performed poem Wish to complement artwork by Phyllis Ragenovich Broken Hill Poet's Pilgrimage, Jan Guest Poet, performed 15 poems Artwork for sale through website Gallery (ongoing) Variety of mediums available for sale, including commissioned work 4 sold 2011 UnBound Art Sale 35 ink paintings for sale, 4 sales Mental Health Week Exhibition, Box Factory, Big Circle Arts, Emerging Artists, Bakehouse Theatre, 1 award, 1 sale Celebration of Life Exhibition, Kill the Silence Art Exhibition, TheMHS Art Display, 2 works accepted for display Salibury Writers Festival Haiga Received highly commended 2010 Schizophrenia Awareness Week Art Exhibition Received 1 highly commended, 1 sale ChART Big Circle Arts Display at ABC building Big Circle Arts Display at MHCSA

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