Recommendations for speaking engagements and workshops by David W. Oaks

Recommendation by City Club of Eugene for David W. Oaks Keynote Presentation

Jerry Diethelm, President of the City Club of Eugene, thanks David Oaks for being on a keynote panel with TC Dumas and Ron Unger, in Eugene, Oregon, on 15 January 2010, Martin Luther King's 81st birthday. Their panel linked up organizing for human rights in mental health, with the inspiration of the Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement.

Recommendation for David Oaks as a keynote speaker for MVBCN Second Annual Recovery Retreat/Conference

Here is a recommendation from Helen Lara, who is a mental health consumer affiars community organizer for Mid Valley Behavioral Care Network (BCN).

Recommendation for presentation by David W. Oaks at Harvard University

The Harvard Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group (MHAAG) invited David to speak on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts on a Sunday afternoon, 4 October 2009. The Lowell House Junior Common Room was about full, as David spoke to a diverse and lively audience that included Harvard students, a professor, and community members, many of whom identified themselves as mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors. Here is the recommendation for the presentation from the Co-Chairs of MHAAG.

Recommendation about David Oaks leadership in workshop on cross-disability and mental health consumers/psychiatric survivors making change together.

Bjo Ashwill was one of the organizers of the four-hour workhop on 11 June 2009 in Eugene, Oregon entitled, "AMPLIFY THE VOICE OF MENTAL HEALTH CLIENTS: How Disability and Mental Health Consumer/Psychiatric Survivor Communities Can Make Change Together!" Here is her recommendation of David Oaks

David Oaks keynoted, gave workshops and facilitated at a key state-wide Maine event.

In October 2009, the "Advocacy Initiative Network" (AIN), a state-wide organization in Maine, had David Oaks keynote, present two workshops, staff a panel, and co-facilitate an all-day work session between the two state-wide organizations in Maine. Here's the review from Melinda Davis, director of AIN:

Recommendation from Jacqueline Novet about David Oaks speaking at Hawthorn House

David spoke at Hawthorn House program in Eugene, Oregon, in November 2008, here's feedback from event organizer Jacqueline Novet.

Recommendation by Professor Robert Menzies for David W. Oaks Keynote Speech at Madness and Citizenship

On 12 June 2008, David W. Oaks provided the single keynote address for the major conference "Madness, Citizenship and Social Justice" sponsored by Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Here's the review provided by the main conference organizer, Professor Robert Menzies.

Recommendation for David W. Oaks by Rollin Shelton

Rollin Shelton, a long-time advocate for human rights and alternatives of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, gives a recommendation on a number of talks he has heard by David, including "Forming a New State-Wide Coalition in Oregon of Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors!" at the Portland Public Library on 15 February 2008. (A DVD of this talk is available from Flying Focus Video.)

Recommendation by Debra Shulkes of David W. Oaks speech at World Psychiatric Association

Every three years the World Psychiatric Association holds its World Congress. David W. Oaks was a 'special lecturer" on the topic of human rights at the WPA World Congress in 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic. The title of the talk was, "An Urgent Need for Dialogue About a 'Global Emergency' of Human Rights Violations in Mental Health Care."

Past recommendations for David W. Oaks for speaking engagements and workshops.

Here are a few of the recommendations from earlier speaking engagements and workshops by David W. Oaks, Director of MindFreedom International, at human rights events. (Thank you for Pat Risser for providing this record.)