Together to Transform
towards a social paradigm for global mental health
Our website is a place to share our research process and outputs.
The Together To Transform project explored ways of shifting the conversation in Global Mental Health from a predominantly medical to a social paradigm using a mutual learning process across disciplinary, professional, and power divides.
The project brought together academics, practitioners and live experience advocates from different disciplinary and geographic backgrounds. It involved 39 participants from 24 countries (click here to see who participated) and was convened by Dörte Bemme and Tessa Roberts from King’s College London. We met monthly and virtually in four thematic “pods” between January and July 2022 to learn from each other's perspectives. The four thematic pods focused on 1) Community mental health systems, 2) Scaling up, 3) Capacity building and funding, and 4) Lived experience, trauma & resilience.
Here we showcase the process and outputs of this work produced within the timeframe of the original project. You can see what each of the pods produced by clicking on the links below, and you can read more about why mutuality matters and how we tried to achieve it here. The Together To Transform project explored ways of shifting the conversation in Global Mental Health from a predominantly medical to a social paradigm using a mutual learning process across disciplinary, professional, and power divides.
This project is affiliated with the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London and was funded from January to July 2022 by the King’s Together Seed Fund.
Our pods
Our collaborators identified the topics most important to them and created four thematic ‘pods’ that captured their shared interests. Each shifted our thinking through processes of mutual learning.
Click on the following links to see how each pod worked and what they produced.
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Community Mental Health Systems
Moving from a deficit to a strength-based view community care.
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Scaling
Broadening what counts as evidence and understanding scaling in context.
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Capacity Building & Funding
Re-directing funding to community organisations and reforming funding processes.
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Lived Experience, Resilience & Trauma
Problematising western concepts of trauma and resilience.
