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by Jerome Sewell (Author), Jason Harris (Author), Mase Okor (Author)
Experience the intensity of emotions, experiences, and insights from frontline mental health and criminal justice practitioners.
The Burning Breath Chapters is an educational text based on first-hand accounts of therapy by two published writers, as well as award-winning filmmakers, project managers, and experienced frontline practitioners, who work full-time in the criminal justice and mental health sectors. The authors' work journeys through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and maturity, exploring the overcoming of traumatic experiences and adversities in urban communities. These writings focus on the practice and approach of mindfulness meditation and its incredible power to transform the hearts of those who have found themselves at the edge of society's experiences. This book describes these life stages through a range of mindfulness textbooks of leading authors and case studies, as well as works in philosophy, social sciences, Zen Buddhism, and psychology.Author Biography
Jerome Sewell is an executive film producer, project manager and managing director of two companies, one which assists young people from gang hit communities called Unique Talent CIC where he heads their media and film department and their sustainable transport division Rollsafe, focused on the use of electric transport. He also runs a second company named Therapeutic productions which provides mental health services through the creative arts. Over the last 5 years he has managed over 20 social projects, raised over £500,000 for community organisations, he has been featured on the national news on 3 occasions for his social work and delivered services to over 400 service users through his companies. He also works for the Royal college of psychiatrists as a service user representative, has worked for the Recovery college (forensic campus) and Royal Bethlem hospital as an expert by experience delivering presentations to over 300 mental health professionals, creating training material for NHS practitioners and delivering psycho educational courses to mental health patients.
Jason Harris is a published poet and frontline peer support worker who provides one on one client based support to those with psychiatric conditions through Norfolk and Suffolk recovery college and the Social recovery team. Over the last 5 years he has provided support to over 100 service users and mental health workers. Jason also chairs the Hearing voices network, a support group for those experiencing hallucinations. As a worker for the social recovery team he organises and delivers over 7 groups for those facing severe mental health conditions. Mase Okor, known under his poetry alias Effortlessflows, is a Black-British performer and poet of Nigerian origin and was born in 1999 in London, United Kingdom, where he still lives and works. His work focuses primarily on gender and race, specifically masculinity and black identity. He explores these themes through the mediums of music, dance and poetry to engage with his audience on an intellectual and intimate level.
