Events

Cinema Night

The program of our cinema forum responds to a desire to stimulate thought, to touch sensitivities, and to challenge and encourage us all to embrace new ideas, pushing our spirit beyond limits.

We are here to create a debate, to provoke, and to offer compassion, creativity, and alternatives.

Together we will share our visions, positioning ourselves to understand those who are unique and uncommon in our society, often in pain and disconnected from community. Promoting new ideas and alternatives, we hope to contribute to the creation of a network of people prepared to support a more holistic and compassionate model of mental health care.

Justice, compassion, and education are the values that sustain the choice of our first cycle.

Fundraiser

We promise you a fun-filled event where we will share moments of insight, creativity, and beauty!

The JAEC Team is dedicated to creating exciting and wonderful venues for all of you.

With your help, we can offer hope and support to the lives of many who struggle with challenging circumstances.
Mental health is something we do together.

Thank you for helping the cause!

Scholarships & Grants

Workshops

Every crisis is different and deserves a treatment adapted to a person’s changing needs.

The OD Presentation Workshop is a brief presentation of the history and principles of Open Dialogue: A form of organization, a vision, and practice in psychiatry originating from Western Lapland, adaptable to various contexts.

Open Dialogue focuses on social care rather than medication and hospitalization. It optimally meets the needs of patients and their families. Research for the past 30 years points towards an 80% of sustainable recoveries for first crisis interventions, proving this approach is the best in the Western world—a fundamentally human form of approaching and working with people in psychic difficulty.

JAEC Cinema Night

Cinema Night

JAEC offers films and documentaries that evoke our dilemmas and those of the social, judicial, and mental health institutions and systems. Our aim is to stimulate reflection, provoke a debate, touch sensibilities, challenge, and encourage everyone to embrace new ideas and enjoy the time together.

Open Dialogue Foundation Training Scholarship

Scholarships & Grants

OPEN DIALOGUE emerged out of a decade-long, organic process, while clinicians (including Jaakko Seikkula and Markku Sutela) searched for the best treatment for acute mental illness and, in particular, psychosis. Many of the changes they made along the way were reactions to encountering ambiguity and uncertainty. They decided to free themselves from searching for a non-existent truth, concentrating instead on curiosity and improvisation. Linked to this, they incorporated the recognition that language shapes our reality, and that one’s language, and thought, is dependent on seeing the world through a personal "lens." The main aim of clinician involvement became the creation of a shared understanding of the problem, through a shared language. Every crisis is different and deserves a treatment adapted to a person's changing needs. Open Dialogue involves a consistent family and social network approach to care, in which the primary treatment is carried out through meetings involving the patient together with his or her family members and extended social network.

14 November 2022

Fundraiser

We are excited to announce the 2023 JAEC Fundraiser! The JAEC Team is dedicated to creating exciting venues for all of you. We are looking forward to taking you on a journey full of surprises. Together, with your help, we can offer hope and support to the lives of many who struggle with challenging circumstances. Mental health is something we do together!

Open Dialogue Workshops

Workshops

JAEC's 4-day practical workshop (2 blocks of 2 days) is led by a team of two Open Dialogue facilitators introducing the students to the principle of Reflections in Open Dialogue Network Meetings.