{"id":1789,"date":"2013-01-28T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?page_id=1789"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:18:07","slug":"grup-de-treball-pensadors-una-experiencia-de-democracia-participativa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/grups-de-treball\/grup-de-treball-pensadors-una-experiencia-de-democracia-participativa\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinkers: a participatory democracy experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who are we?<\/h3>\n

In 2010, from the Catalan Congress of Mental Health Foundation<\/strong> and from the initiative of a group of professionals, it was launched Thinkers Group<\/strong>. The group was initially formed with users, family members, and mental health professionals. Later, it expanded to include citizens interested in the subject with the aim of jointly reflecting on mental health issues in a freer way, outside of the healthcare setting.<\/p>\n

Check the following document<\/strong><\/a> To get to know each other a little better<\/p>\n

What are our goals?<\/h3>\n
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  • Delve into the concept of (mental) health and the knowledge of the socio-family, work, care, etc. processes that affect people's health.<\/li>\n
  • Defend the rights of people with mental illness and study the causes of social exclusion and their alternatives.<\/li>\n
  • Promote a community-based, interdisciplinary primary care model, grounded in understanding mental phenomena and focused on prevention, equipped with the necessary psychotherapeutic and psychosocial tools.<\/li>\n
  • Establish cooperative relationships with other professional, scientific, civic, political, and governmental organizations.<\/li>\n
  • Forming opinions on healthcare needs and concrete proposals for care transformations, legislative actions, and community initiatives to promote mental health for individuals, families, and organizations.<\/li>\n
  • To advise and support professionals and associations, especially those who care for people (teachers, doctors, family members, judges, etc.), in order to make possible the understanding of psychological problems and needs and healthy growth.<\/li>\n
  • Favor changes in teaching and research to make them more suitable for the promotion of (mental) health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    What do we do?<\/h3>\n

    The methodology <\/strong>work is from 9 group sessions per edition<\/strong>, an hour and a half long<\/strong>, with a monthly frequency<\/strong> and with the support of some Coordinators and an observer. <\/strong>We have carried out until this moment 20 editions<\/strong> approximately more than a hundred people participated thinkers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u00a0<\/strong>Some of the topics we have covered are the following:<\/p>\n

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        • The relationship<\/li>\n
        • Involuntary psychiatric hospitalization<\/li>\n
        • Responsibility<\/li>\n
        • The family<\/li>\n
        • And then what?<\/li>\n
        • Discernment<\/li>\n
        • The identity<\/li>\n
        • The pig<\/li>\n
        • Voice Management<\/li>\n
        • Loneliness<\/li>\n
        • The recovery<\/li>\n
        • The integration of difference with the other.<\/li>\n
        • Untitled<\/li>\n
        • Think tank group project remodeling<\/li>\n
        • Emotional education<\/li>\n
        • The meaning of life<\/li>\n
        • COVID-19<\/li>\n
        • Post COVID - Collective Malaise<\/li>\n
        • Dependence<\/li>\n
        • The pain of war<\/li>\n
        • We live in a changing world (current edition) working title.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          We propose that you participate in the 21st edition, where, as in previous editions, we are opening up the space to different community groups who may feel the need to be heard and who want to share their opinions on mental health-related topics from a perspective of citizen competence and empowerment.<\/p>\n

          We invite you to train us thinking in a group and creating a fabric of social thought, rich, broad, varied, controversial<\/strong>, that contemplates each person's uniqueness<\/strong>. We want everyone to have a place and to be able to express themselves freely within certain limits (respect for others' opinions and the group's functioning), with the aim of creating collective capacities for new thinking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

          The working method is the usual one for the Think Tank Group, broadened and open to all citizens.<\/strong> That is, in-person sessions with a numerical limit <\/strong>of 20-22 assistants in a commitment to participation<\/strong> 9 sessions per course.<\/strong> The periodicity<\/strong> is once a month and the duration <\/strong>Each session is 90 minutes long.<\/p>\n

          Session calendar:<\/h4>\n
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          • October 7, 2024<\/li>\n
          • November 4, 2024<\/li>\n
          • December 2, 2024<\/li>\n
          • January 13, 2025<\/li>\n
          • February 3, 2025<\/li>\n
          • March 3, 2025<\/li>\n
          • April 7, 2025<\/li>\n
          • May 5, 2025<\/li>\n
          • June 2, 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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            The sessions are held on 7:15 PM to 8:45 PM<\/strong>
            \nThe chosen site is a Civic center<\/strong>\u00a0with the intention of locating ourselves within the community and away from healthcare resources.
            \nThe sessions are held at the\u2019L'Harmonia de Sant Andreu Ateneu.\u00a0<\/strong>C\/ Sant Adri\u00e0, 20 08030 Barcelona.<\/p>\n

            Where are we?<\/h4>\n