Good morning, everyone. It is an honor and a pleasure for me to welcome you to this second working meeting. I would like to welcome the new members who are joining this effort.

The Workshop is intended as an intense and fruitful workday that acknowledges the responsibility we have. We have convened tripartitely, from a certain identity artifice.

We have gathered as professionals, as users, and as family members, only to be able to think about the issues that concern us from different perspectives, from different perspectives, and from different experiences. And we have gathered for a matter of responsibility and also for a pain. A great and constant pain. We have also gathered for the joy of meeting and of thinking together. Being able to think things out with others rejuvenates and revitalizes us.

Before starting today’s work, it is necessary to pause to think together about a loss. Josep Clusa, former president of the Foundation, a colleague of many years of work and a dear friend. Last year, when we met here, he came and accompanied and encouraged us with his words to continue this new experience here and in an original way, and to support our work from the Foundation. Unfortunately, we do not have him here for this second meeting. He passed away last August, and now we have to continue without him. But he is with us. He accompanies us with his warmth, interest in things, interest in everything that meant work and effort in understanding human difficulties in order to be able to live and grow. He accompanies us with his ability to work, his consistency and tenacity to be able to move forward. To resist the discouragement that threatens us in these difficult times for everyone.

Now, in this moment of serious social difficulty, we know that things become even more difficult. We are used to having to deal with them in the face of difficulties. Mental illness, or psychotic crisis, also places us in a moment of devastation in a person’s inner world and often in their social and family relationships. Time and again, we try to overcome each crisis, and after recovering the abilities that, temporarily, have been impeded from being deployed. Therefore, we know that hard work is necessary, which must come from different areas in order to have new, consistent, non-stereotyped, and creative ideas for reconstruction from the social, relational, familial, emotional, and physical aspects of the balances that have been lost and that need to be rebuilt.

At the beginning I said that today's work needs to be intensive and fruitful. Strenuous, repeated, that reanimates our ability to think and not delegate it to anyone. Each of us must create our own thoughts to understand the things that happen to us. We must break free from slogans, wherever they come from. Only in the exchange of ideas and in permanent debate will we find cracks to produce new possibilities for all of us.

I believe the Thinkers Group is a work proposal stemming from each of our individual responsibilities and from an ethical position where all of us, and I mean all of us, are included equally.

Angels Lives

Documentation
«A Few Words from Afar»
«Summary of the 2nd Meeting»
«5th Edition Summary»