Directory
* The links below are provided in good faith but do not constitute a recommendation. Please make your own assessment of the information they offer.
Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre & Society
Dept of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Lampeter.
www.uwtsd.ac.uk/library/alister-hardy-religious-experience-research-centre/
Asylum Magazine
This website from Asylum Magazine provides alternative sources of support for those undergoing crisis and includes things such as coming off psychiatric medication, hearing voices and coping with self-harm and distress.
www.asylumonline.net/resources/alternative-sources-of-support/
A World Awake
An informative website of resources aimed at those experiencing a process of emergence. Covers anomalous experiences and provides a platform of exploration, discussion and support. Includes links to other groups.
Ceekr
Resources for effecting personal growth and conscious inner change in order to bring about a peaceful revolution of human development.
Emerging Proud
Aims to grow a global network of awakened Peers to create safe space, local groups, validating and empowering others who have experienced a spiritual awakening to emerge through their own crises.
https://emergingproud.com/emergingkind/
International Spiritual Emergence Network
An umbrella organisation connecting networks around the world that offer compassionate support to those who understand their experiences to be a spiritual crisis rather than a mental illness, and raising awareness of a non-pathological integral framework within the mental health field.
http://www.spiritualemergencenetwork.org/
Hearing Voices Network
A mental health services user network, although it does not focus on spiritual experiences.
http://www.hearing-voices.org/
Hazel Courtney
The author of two books on spiritual emergency, also offers nutritional advice for health conditions.
http://www.hazelcourteney.com/
Isabel Clarke
Isabel is the author of “Psychosis and Spirituality” and her website has a variety of articles, information about her books and other materials related to spiritual crisis.
Integrative Mental Health-Emma Bragdon
Emma is a published author in the fields of spirituality and mental health and currently offers training courses for practitioners and therapists looking to work in the field of spiritual emergency.
Talk About Spiritual Crisis
Mike Rush has been studying spiritual and anomalous experiences for over a decade and provides resources for spiritual crisis and therapies for individuals who suffer from this area.
www.talkaboutspiritualcrisis.uk
Mind
Mind provides a support and advice service, workshops and training to employers and people with ‘mental health conditions’. Contact for information about mental health advocacy, medications, alternative treatments, and where to get more support.
Legal Rights with regard to mental health: www.mind.org.uk/information-support/legal-rights/
Rufus May
The “Doctor who heard voices.” Resources for more peaceful and helpful approaches to mental health problems.
Shades of Awakening
A resource guide and hub for connection, validation and learning around the topics of spiritual crisis/emergency.
Soteria Network
Website promoting drug-free and minimum medication therapeutic environments for people experiencing “psychosis” or extreme states. Striving for humane, non0coercive mental health services.
http://www.soterianetwork.org.uk/
Oxford centre for spirituality
Their research aims to underpin the development of training for staff so that they are supported to provide spiritual care as a necessary dimension of person-centred holistic care.
https://www.oxfordcentrespiritualitywellbeing.co.uk/
Spirituality & Psychiatry Special Interest Group (Royal College of Psychiatrists)
A forum for psychiatrists to explore the spiritual challenges presented by psychiatric illness and how best to respond to patients’ spiritual concerns. Many service users hold spiritual or religious beliefs they see as important in helping them cope with mental illness, but often feel unable to discuss such concerns with their psychiatrists.
Spiritual Competency
This is the website of David Lukoff, President of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, USA. He is co-author of the diagnostic manual DSM-IV category ‘Religious or Spiritual Problem’ and an authority on spiritual emergency.
Safely Held Spaces
Supporting people experiencing mental and emotional distress in the UK find safe, compassionate, empowering support in their local communities.