Mary O'Hagan
Mary O'Hagan is an international speaker, consultant and writer who is a leader on service user perspectives, has used for her unique expertise in recovery, wellbeing and discrimination and works in the Netherlands, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Mary was an initiator of the service user movement in New Zealand, the first chair of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, an advisor to the United Nations and World Health Organization and a Mental Health Commissioner for New Zealand.
Mary O'Hagan is a well known innovator, thinker and writer. She has used her lived experience of mental health problems and her extensive work experience to develop straight answers to the curly questions in mental health. Mary O'Hagan used mental health services in New Zealand for eight years as a young woman. Ever since, she has worked to make a difference to the way society and services respond to people with major mental distress. Mary is:
- An initiator of the service user movement in New Zealand
- The first chair of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
- An advisor to the United Nations and World Health Organization
- A Mental Health Commissioner for New Zealand
- An international speaker, consultant and writer
- An international thought leader on service user perspectives
- Used for her unique expertise in recovery, wellbeing and discrimination
- Working in the Netherlands, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Mary has given many keynote talks in England, Scotland, Sweden, Norway, Greece, the Netherlands, Japan, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. She talks to managers, practitioners, people with lived experience and the public. Her talks entertain and provoke. They are always grounded in the perspectives of people with lived experience of mental distress. Mary talks about topics as diverse as:
- User/survivor perspectives in mental health
- User/survivor leadership
- Peer run services
- Recovery based systems
- Recovery and wellbeing
- Discrimination and social exclusion
- Compulsory treatment
- The experience of psychosis
Mary provides workshops and training courses throughout the world. She blends idealism with pragmatism and tailors her workshops to meet the clients needs. They include:
- One-off workshops
- Recovery oriented services and systems
- Alternatives to compulsory treatment
- Recovery approaches to risk management
- Recovery planning
- Peer support and advocacy
- Understanding psychosis from the inside
- Service user leadership in services
- Discrimination and human rights
Peer Zone
Peer Zone
PeerZone is shared learning for wellbeing, designed and delivered by and for people with experience of mental distress. It is a series of three hour peer facilitated face-to-face sessions (learning packages) where participants engage in mutual support, deepen their understanding of their experience and develop tools for wellbeing in all the major life domains. The face-to-face groups are backed up by online resources and a chat facility.
Address
PO Box 517, Wellington 6140
Country
New Zealand
Recovery Consultancy
Recovery Consultancy
Mary provides a unique consultancy service for managers and leaders who want to build more recovery or wellbeing oriented services or systems. She combines her lived experience as well as her understanding of the grass roots and of the high level policy world, with her knowledge of recovery and wellbeing.
Mary is available to do what the client needs. If the client wants something more comprehensive Mary uses her systemic recovery framework to do a recovery review of a service, whether it is small or large. She visits the service, talks to stakeholders, then provides a report with suggestions that will help to fast track the service towards a more complete recovery orientation. Mary has completed recovery reviews in Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Scotland and England.
Country
New Zealand
Organisation
Address: 6th Floor, West Block, Education House, 178 Willis St, Wellington.
Country: New Zealand
Postal Address: PO Box 6627, Marion Square Wellington 6011, New Zealand.
Email: mary@maryohagan.com
