My identify is Dmitriy Gutkovich and I’m the founding father of Usorum, which is part of a brand new collaboration with Mad in America that you could find right here. By way of my journey as an individual with lived expertise of listening to voices, I’ve realized that every particular person is exclusive. Their particular person creativity has been honed by the vantage level of the life they’ve lived and the challenges they’ve overcome. This uniqueness, in flip, is invaluable for fixing issues. I constructed Usorum across the perception that we are able to faucet into our collective expertise and start constructing the generational data to enhance everybody’s high quality of life. With every particular person having had their very own challenges in life, all of us have one thing to contribute, and our concepts might be simply as beneficial as our cash.
I’ve been listening to voices since I used to be a younger grownup, and have largely overcome the obstacles related to my state of affairs. I’ve realized navigate hostile voices, keep away from complicated beliefs, and to focus my consideration on the bodily world. Usorum is born out of each hope and unhappiness. The unhappiness is that it took a few years to succeed, constructing my strategies from scratch and fixing each problem with none generational data to face on. Later in life, I wrote Life with Voices to assist others have a greater basis in these challenges, and I encourage anybody to put in writing me ([email protected]) if they want any private assist. The hope is that it doesn’t need to be as arduous because it was for me. With initiatives akin to Usorum, we are able to faucet into our collective expertise and start constructing the generational data to enhance everybody’s high quality of life. If at first I knew faucet into voice allies, or what logical tips can maintain the voices at bay, then that might have given me again years of my life. Think about how a lot related collective knowledge is amongst us?
“Lived expertise creates perception.” That’s the founding precept of Usorum. The best way Usorum works is that we place discussion board on completely different nonprofit organizations websites, after which join these websites and their folks throughout the net to create a much bigger dialog on lived expertise. Because the previous adage says, we merely go additional collectively. Nonprofit organizations are the proper candidates to mix communities as they’re mission-driven and are in the identical areas with out being in direct competitors.
The organizations Usorum collaborates with pose inquiries to generate collective knowledge, just like the questions posed within the present Mad in America brainstorm: “What do you want your physician had informed you earlier than beginning you on psychiatric medicines?”
From the digital conversations we create, we consider that invaluable insights will come up. In any case, there are numerous folks not solely struggling, but additionally succeeding towards adversities akin to psychological well being challenges, speaking with allies, and total each day dwelling. As an alternative of relying solely on top-down options from lecturers, establishments, and prescribed drugs, why not ask the individuals who uncover their very own solutions for his or her secrets and techniques to thriving and nicely being? A wholesome dialog throughout our lived expertise group can create the insights that can carry quality-of-life for all these collaborating. Given Mad in America’s historical past of making different discourse from the standard top-down narratives of psychological well being, we’re notably excited for this partnership.
The secondary goal of Usorum is to deliver nonprofit organizations nearer to their members. Nonprofits are sometimes run by compassionate well-meaning folks, however we’re all human and have our limitations. By brainstorming instantly with the group, we are able to achieve views on allocate sources, and design new tasks that maximize influence. Bringing in the entire group into the matters of boardroom discussions is our reply to furthering the mission on the core of nonprofit existence, and in that, we ask in your trustworthy assist throughout the matters of this co-created digital area. To this finish, as you discover the Usorum area, we additionally hope that you just be aware of the varied organizations combating for a greater world, and take into account supporting them or no less than becoming a member of their mailing checklist for updates on the great battle. To these , there’s a donate button on the highest proper of your discussion board expertise to assist Mad in America. For another questions or suggestions on getting concerned, please e-mail Karin Jervert at [email protected].
I sit up for creating a greater world with Mad in America readers.
Sincerely,
Dmitriy Gutkovich
