Wellbeing and good mental health come from connecting with other people – family, friends or colleagues – and from taking part in something worthwhile. Get Into Reading provides both of these, as well as the sheer pleasure of the book. Reading aloud, or listening to someone read aloud, is a relationship-building shared experience. Professor Louis Appleby, CBE, National Director for Mental Health.
The Reader Organisation, working in partnership with the University of Liverpool, NHS Wirral, Mersey Care NHS Trust and Liverpool PCT, is planning New Beginnings, the first national Get Into Reading Conference, which will share findings and best practice from their innovative reader development and social outreach programme, Get Into Reading.
The Readers’ Day will include a series of creative and inspiring workshops as well as panel discussions and reading recommendations.
New Beginnings: Get Into Reading Conference, Friday Night Supper and Readers’ Day, 8th – 9th January 2010, Blackburne House, Liverpool.
Tickets for the whole New Beginnings experience are £120 (£80 for the Friday conference). Click here to book.
Please contact Claire Speer for further information or booking enquiries.
Confirmed speakers for New Beginnings include: Susan Blishen (Mental Health Foundation), Dr Jane Davis (Founder and Director of The Reader Organisation), Kathy Doran (Chief Executive, NHS Wirral), Dr David Fearnley (RCPysch Psychiatrist of the Year; Medical Director and Deputy Chief of Mersey Care NHS Trust), Brian Keenan (author) Blake Morrison (author, journalist and Chair of The Reader Organisation), Stuart Smith (Executive Director Children, Families and Adults Services, Liverpool City Council), and Alan Yates (Chief Executive, Mersey Care NHS Trust).
A list of workshops for the conference – one in the morning, one in the afternoon – is now available: click here to see details.
Jen Tomkins
Communications Manager
Currently reading Modern Poetry in Translation: Frontiers
New Beginnings: Get Into Reading Conference and Readers’ Day, 8th-9th January 2010
