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Guest Speaker Series
Join us on the 1st Thursday of the month at 6:30pm via Zoom for our NAMI Boston Guest Speaker Series.
In collaboration with NAMI Boston, the MBRLC hosts guest speaker events each month via Zoom. 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.
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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
Our Guest Speaker Series uses the same Zoom ID each month:
Join our Zoom Meeting
​Meeting ID: 969 8487 4345
Upcoming Guest Speakers
September 4th, 2025
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Elizabeth Moore, CPS
Elizabeth Moore is currently employed as one of four Certified Peer Specialists at Waverley Place, the community support program associated with McLean Hospital. She has been employed there for 8 years and loves helping members strive to meet their individual recovery goals. Some of her other responsibilities at Waverley Place include leading groups, coordinating referrals, and managing inventory. In late August she will start co-facilitating groups 4 hours per week at the McLean Hospital Behavioral Health Program.
Description of talk:
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Elizabeth will focus on the vital importance of charting your own path and learning how to build a rewarding life while in recovery from mental illness
Key Points:
*Focus on finding and maintaining communities of non-judgemental people who will walk with you on the journey. Whatever you are dealing with you can’t do it alone.
*The judgement of clinicians and other professionals is not the final verdict on your future and they don’t know how to fix you
*Just because you are not initially successful doesn’t mean it will not happen. Some of us just take longer.
*Avoidance is not a viable long term coping strategy for dealing with symptoms. Eventually you have to learn how to face them so you can build the life you want.
*Building a meaningful productive life is VERY possible despite having ongoing severe mental health issues.
For more information email howarddtrachtman@gmail.com or go to: https://namiboston.org/event/psan-recovery-speaker-series-elizabeth-moore
Past Guest Speakers
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 of the SERLC Fall River Recovery Connection Center
Our Guest Speaker Series uses the same Zoom ID each month:
Join our Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 969 8487 4345
https://bostonmedicalcenter.zoom.us/j/96984874345
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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/
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Contact Howard Trachtman at howarddtrachtman@gmail.com for more information or to be a guest speaker.
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