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Welcome back to Episode #5 Charmaine was born in London where she remained until she was 7 years old. She spent the remainder of her childhood and adolescent years growing up in parts of Manchester and Essex before returning to live in London as an adult. After spending most of her life battling with her own mental health illness she decided to pursue a career in training in Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion. Charmaine now specialises in areas related to organisational change structures and the implementation of peer involvement and peer development, co-production and user-led delivery of mental health services. She has a passion for creative arts and loves mindfulness, body movement, performance and her new found joy training in trauma-sensitive yoga. She is a mother, a poet, a thinker, a doer, an independent trainer and peer consultant with over ten years of experience of working with people suffering from chronic and enduring mental health conditions. Charmaine works between East London NHS Foundation Trust and North East London NHS Foundation Trust, she also works within the charity sector and currently manages projects for Redbridge Disability Consortium One Place East funded by the big lottery and LBR. She is an Open Dialogue practitioner, a member of the teaching team working as a part-time trainer on the postgraduate certificate in peer-supported open dialogue, social network and relationship skills (POD) Charmaine is also the founder of Peer Dialogue. This podcast we discuss and reflect on the Mental Health Conversations Seminar she hosted and the importance of working together as collectives to shape change. I hope you enjoy the feedback and knowledge from the guests and guest speakers from this Conference, some very passionate and inspiring women sharing there knowledge and information on how we can work together to form change. Peace.