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Guest Speaker Series
Join us on the 1st Thursday of the month at 6:30pm for our NAMI Boston Guest Speaker Series.
In collaboration with NAMI Boston, the MBRLC hosts guest speaker events each month via Microsoft Teams!
Our inspiring and enlightening guest speakers are people with lived and living experience who showcase their knowledge, offer mental health resources, and share their journey and experiences of healing.
The meetings are free and open to the public. All are welcome!
Learn more about the NAMI Boston Guest Speaker Series, including our past speakers at
https://namiboston.org/events/category/speaker-series
We now are using Microsoft Teams for our Guest Speaker Series!
The same meeting ID is used each month.
Join our Teams Meeting!
Meeting ID: 278 388 590 434 Passcode: Z2NY6bm2
Upcoming Guest Speakers
March 5th, 2026
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Amy Manion, CPS
Born in Boston, raised on its border, Amy Manion is a Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) through the Metro Boston Recovery Learning Community. She likes to make songs, poems, take photos, make collages, dance, take videos of her cat, go to improv drop-in classes, and open mics, among many other creative pursuits. Sometimes joy feels far away; creating helps her connect to herself and beyond herself to others. In these connections, she feels more like herself: joyful, care-free, playful, a member of a community, belonging, and able to offer and receive care.
In this talk, Amy will interweave her healing journey along life’s way through song, poetry, video, and visual art sharing. Things that have helped along the way, such as resources, communities, and programs, will be shared in her talk.
Amy hopes to share from her heart and show how the arts have been vital to her healing journey, as well as community, supports, and connecting to a greater purpose. There will be a time for questions and comments at the end and maybe a creative practice to anyone who is interested in participating in, to conclude the presentation portion. It may be an improv acting exercise, a group poem, sharing ones own art at the end, or something else interactive and arts-based, depending on time and interest.
For more information email howarddtrachtman@gmail.com or go to: https://namiboston.org/event/psan-recovery-speaker-series-amy-manion/
Past Guest Speakers
December 4th, 2025
Lenny Mulcahy, CPS
September 4th, 2025
Elizabeth Moore, CPS
November 6th, 2025
Heidi Lee, CPS
July 3rd, 2025
Lawrence Harris
Youth Empowerment Speaker
June 5th, 2025
Opening Doors to the Arts
August 7th, 2025
Ashley Sproul, CPS
Director of Recovery and Empowerment
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
March 6th, 2025
Christopher Laureano, CPS
Director of the Recovery Education and Learning (REAL) Program at Bay Cove Human Services.
December 5th, 2024
Justin Coonan, CPS
Program Director, Fall River Recovery Connection Center of the Southeast Recovery Learning Community
Our Guest Speaker Series uses the same
Microsoft Teams ID each month:
Join our Teams Meeting
Meeting ID: 278 388 590 434
Passcode: Z2NY6bm2
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For more information on upcoming and past speakers, please go to the NAMI Boston website.
https://namiboston.org/events/category/speaker-series/
Contact Howard Trachtman at howarddtrachtman@gmail.com for more information or to be a guest speaker.