MOBILIZE RECOVERY WISCONSIN: SYMPOSIUM ON ADDICTION & RECOVERY

Each year, hundreds of people in recovery, family members, & recovery allies attend Mobilize Recovery — an annual convening to learn innovative strategies & tactics for grassroots organizing & recovery solutions. To learn more visit www.mobilizerecovery.org

Launching from Las Vegas during Labor Day weekend 2022, Mobilize Recovery Across America will depart on a cross-country bus tour, highlighting the recovery experience that is so unique in different regions throughout the country. The month-long tour will travel from the West Coast to the East Coast—and back—from September 5, 2022 to October 6, 2022.

Serve You Rx, The Recovery Advocacy Project, and the Lighthouse Recovery Community Center, will bring the Wisconsin Recovery Community a packed day of speakers, discussions, trainings, and more. Join us and let's celebrate Recovery Month together!

This event is free of charge and food will be provided. Space is extremely limited and all participants must register to attend. Be part of the Wisconsin stop during the nationwide Mobilize Recovery Bus Tour and be the change you want to see in your community!

Panel Discussions Include:

Recovery Friendly Employer Panel Led by: Christma Rusch, Lighthouse Recovery Community Center

• Latching ~ Sara Behnke & Brianne Harrison
• Redline Plastics ~ Brenda Haese & Dylan Swoboda
• Serve You Rx ~ Justin Jasniewski & Jessica Geschke
• Rogers Behavioral Health ~ John Boyd & Janet Gatlin

Mobilizing Recovery in Wisconsin: Led by: Joseph Green, Tipping the Pain Scale

• Jesse Heffernan ~ Owner Helios Recovery Services/Professional Recovery
• Justin Jasniewski ~ CEO, Serve You Rx
• Michael Ethridge ~ Executive Director, The Haven men's shelter
• Kristina Smith~ Safe Communities
• Honorable Judge Robert Dewane ~ State of Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge

Harm Reduction Led by: Jaclyn Brown, Recovery Advocacy Project

• Michael Beyer~ Rogers Behavioral Health
• Theo Krzywicki~ End Overdose
• Byron Thompson~ The Phoenix Milwaukee
• Jessica Geschke~ Serve You Rx
• Ben Bruso~Vivent Health

Re-framing Substance Use for Family Members” Led by Denise Mariano, Partnership to End Addiction

• John Boyd ~ CEO, Rogers Behavioral Health
• Lynn Qualman ~ Family member/parent
• Cath Tease ~ Person in long-term recovery – Educator
• Patti Varges~ Partnership to End Addiction
• Nadia Al-Amin- SAMHSA

Once you register you will notice two ticket options, (General Admission[Required]) and another for our breakout session that will take place from 2:30-6:30 PM- Public Narrative for Connection, Power & Change. This breakout session will require a separate registration. We will have very limited capacity for individuals to participate, so if interested please do not wait and register when selecting to attend the general symposium. Please review the information below to learn more:

Sharing Your Public Narrative for Connection, Power, and Change

About this event -Join us in this experiential workshop to learn how to share your stories in powerful ways and use storytelling in your leadership. Over the course of this four hour training, Rosi Greenberg and Joseph Green will share a powerful narrative technique that enables you to share your Story of Self (why you are called to your leadership), a Story of US (the moments that bring our community together) and the Story of Now (what's urgent that needs our action, and the call to act together). This workshop is based on Public Narrative, the leadership practice taught by Professor Marshall Ganz at Harvard University, and is infused with life experience with recovery, finding resilience in mental health, and leadership. During our time together, everyone will write their own personal story, then work in small groups to practice, learning through experience and iteration in community. Through this narrative practice, we will connect and build the power we need to create change for recovery.

This year, we're excited to use storytelling to support your state's campaign goals. Every storyteller will have the option to receive coaching and film their story to participate in important legislative campaigns and call others to action. This workshop is for anyone who worries if they have a story, as well as people who have been telling their stories out loud for years, and everyone in between, including family members, people in recovery, and allies of recovery. Taught by Joseph Green, a spoken word artist, and Rosi Greenberg, a visual artist, both professional speakers and storytelling trainers with lived experience in mental health crisis and resilience. Previous participants at Mobilize have called this workshop "life-changing" and said it was "the missing piece and the confidence I needed" to file to run for office.