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Located in Downtown Hyannis Minutes from the Bus Station and Main Street!
Dance in the Rain
Peer to Peer Mental Health Center
501 C3 Private Foundation
“Dance in the Rain Peer to Mental Health Center” is a safe place for people with mental illness, and or dual diagnosis to build healing, wholeness, self-empowerment, and accountability. “Dance…” is a drop-in style center offering multiple support groups, workshops, and meetings for people ages 14 years and older with mental health challenges living on Cape Cod. It’s a place where wholeness and a person’s potential will be nurtured and allowed to grow. “Dance…” with its various programs challenges an individual to face his/her mental illness and healing. It’s also a place that strives to engage Cape and Islands communities in a concerted effort to end stigma and help promote the much-needed changes within the mental health system.
Created and built by people with mental health challenges for people with mental health challenges. "Dance..." offers unique lived experience perspectives to offer support to our peers. We believe that a strong personal support system and peer engagement are some of the greatest assets a person with a mental health challenge can possess in his/her journey of healing. We work hard to help individuals recognize who their supports are and to help them build strong support systems.
Dance in the Rain offers all of our services free to all of our peers because we understand the damaging toll isolation takes on the individual and in turn costs the community.
Peer to Peer Mental Health Center
501 C3 Private Foundation
“Dance in the Rain Peer to Mental Health Center” is a safe place for people with mental illness, and or dual diagnosis to build healing, wholeness, self-empowerment, and accountability. “Dance…” is a drop-in style center offering multiple support groups, workshops, and meetings for people ages 14 years and older with mental health challenges living on Cape Cod. It’s a place where wholeness and a person’s potential will be nurtured and allowed to grow. “Dance…” with its various programs challenges an individual to face his/her mental illness and healing. It’s also a place that strives to engage Cape and Islands communities in a concerted effort to end stigma and help promote the much-needed changes within the mental health system.
Created and built by people with mental health challenges for people with mental health challenges. "Dance..." offers unique lived experience perspectives to offer support to our peers. We believe that a strong personal support system and peer engagement are some of the greatest assets a person with a mental health challenge can possess in his/her journey of healing. We work hard to help individuals recognize who their supports are and to help them build strong support systems.
Dance in the Rain offers all of our services free to all of our peers because we understand the damaging toll isolation takes on the individual and in turn costs the community.
Dance in the Rain believes that mental health challenges are community issues. To help solve the issues facing the existing fractured mental health system we believe that it will take the many different Cape Cod communities to come together in their own unique way to help fill the gaps in the traditional mental health system. Dance... believes it is important to reach out to the many Cape Cod communities and engage them giving them an opportunity to offer support and share there resources as a way to help find solutions to fix the existing fractured mental health system.
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Dance in the Rain
Whole Person Approach Mental illness is unique to the individual. Every individual has unique brain pathways, chemistry and biology. Each person reacts to stimuli and circumstances differently. They have their own unique backgrounds, histories, traumas, joys, sorrows, and triumphs. Therefore... As the wholeness of the person begins to be discovered and revealed to the individual and others in their life a unique and personal healing process begins. It's sculpted and created by the uniqueness of the individual. Mary E Munsell 6/2013 |
Mary E Munsell founder and executive director speaks about Dance in the Rain Peer to Peer Mental Health Center.
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Read the article written by Founder and Executive Director Mary E. Munsell published in the
"Opinion Section" of the Cape Cod Times Printed March 24, 2018 "Peer Support Critical in Facing Mental Illness" Click link below: www.capecodtimes.com/opinion/20180324/peer-support-critical-in-facing-mental-illness |
Read the article by Bronwen Howells Walsh from the Barnstable Patriot
Please Believe in the work we are doing! Donate Today http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/news/20180614/hyannis-nonprofit-faces-financial-struggle 
On Sunday June 10th Dance in the Rain was the focus of the local radio show Spectrum with Doug Verney. Mary Munsell the Founder and Executive Director, Bob Lambrochino Board of Director Member and Paul Erba Peer Facilitator were interviewed.
Listen to the interview by clicking the following link: www.iheart.com/podcast/825-WXTK-Clips-28451200/episode/dance-in-the-rain-29437305/?campid=homepage_featured_shows&pname=15314&cid=%2F |
Coming soon!
Local Community Store Helps Carry the Weight!
Pat and Dan Smith from Smith Family Popcorn at 545 Main Street Hyannis has offered to have Dance in the Rain Peer to Peer Mental Health Center be one of their featured Charites. The Smith Family Popcorn Store gives 5%-10% of each sale to their featured Charity. Thank You Smith Family Popcorn |
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On Sunday February 25, 2018 Doug Verney from the local Radio show Spectrum interviewed Mary Munsell the Founder and executive Director of Dance in the Rain and Jim Nelson a peer facilitator and member.
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Listen to the interview by clicking on the following link.
95wxtk.iheart.com/content/2018-02-26-spectrum-dance-in-the-rain/ Learn more about Dance in the Rain. Ever wonder what the Dance in the Rain
Peer to Peer Mental Health space looks like? Now's your chance! On January 22, 2018 we updated our lease to expand our space. We are working to offer a: Resource Room and Open Art Studio. Dance in the Rain is such a unique place for peers to come and break the lonely cycle of isolation. It is a place where the programs are developed and run by peers. It is a place all our own! A place for us to begin the healing process among friends who understand. The only charge? Be yourself. |
CHECKOUT OUR NEW SCHEDULE WITH NEW MEETINGS!
Yes, there is no cost to come to Dance in the Rain!
-Just Be Yourself-
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"A Place of Refuge"
When I was very sick and found that my environment was overwhelming and my emotions were crushing I sought refuge in the inpatient unit. Sometimes it brought me comfort but as I became stronger I immediately would regret this action.
I regretted it for a few reasons. Mostly because I lost my freedom, the doors were locked behind me. My possessions were taken away, time was not mine anymore. I was on a schedule and worst of all, medication changes became an issue.
I have been living with a mental health disorder and navigating the mental health system for many many years. I have come to realize that the most important thing I had been seeking was a safe place to engage and to be with other people who were like me, struggling with mental health issues. I felt comfortable among my peers but the cost of an inpatient stay was too costly physically and emotionally.
Besides, when I left crisis care I isolated anyway and returned to the same behaviors as before.
For a very long time I felt alone and I had no place to turn and no place to go.
So I began to build a place for people like myself. An oasis amid the storm. A place of refuge. The cost nothing.
Dance in the Rain Peer to Peer Mental Health Center is that place of refuge where one can come when one's environment is overwhelming. When the emotions are crushing and the isolation is deafening. It is even a place to come to meet new friends.
Here one can be yourself. It's ok. We all have walked the path of intolerance and misunderstanding. We are building a place that comes from experience and understanding. A place built to meet the challenges of living with a mental health disorder on a daily basis.
Sure we might have a funny name "Dance in the Rain". But it come from an awesome quote - "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain." Vivianne Green
Come dance in your rain. We know you have rain in your life.
Mary M.
When I was very sick and found that my environment was overwhelming and my emotions were crushing I sought refuge in the inpatient unit. Sometimes it brought me comfort but as I became stronger I immediately would regret this action.
I regretted it for a few reasons. Mostly because I lost my freedom, the doors were locked behind me. My possessions were taken away, time was not mine anymore. I was on a schedule and worst of all, medication changes became an issue.
I have been living with a mental health disorder and navigating the mental health system for many many years. I have come to realize that the most important thing I had been seeking was a safe place to engage and to be with other people who were like me, struggling with mental health issues. I felt comfortable among my peers but the cost of an inpatient stay was too costly physically and emotionally.
Besides, when I left crisis care I isolated anyway and returned to the same behaviors as before.
For a very long time I felt alone and I had no place to turn and no place to go.
So I began to build a place for people like myself. An oasis amid the storm. A place of refuge. The cost nothing.
Dance in the Rain Peer to Peer Mental Health Center is that place of refuge where one can come when one's environment is overwhelming. When the emotions are crushing and the isolation is deafening. It is even a place to come to meet new friends.
Here one can be yourself. It's ok. We all have walked the path of intolerance and misunderstanding. We are building a place that comes from experience and understanding. A place built to meet the challenges of living with a mental health disorder on a daily basis.
Sure we might have a funny name "Dance in the Rain". But it come from an awesome quote - "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain." Vivianne Green
Come dance in your rain. We know you have rain in your life.
Mary M.
To see how you can support Dance in the Rain click the button below to go to our official "Support Dance in the Rain" page
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Dance in the Rain Peer to Peer
Mental Health Center a place for support, engagement and healing among friends. Dance in the Rain is more than a name but an attitude that we try to pass on to our peers. "Life can be difficult because of your illness. Don't wait for things to change. Take what you have now, do what you can and enjoy your life to the fullest. The challenges are prompted by inner growth and healing." |
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Thank you Cape Cod HealthCare for the $3,000.00 Grant toward our Resource Center & Open Art Studio |
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WE MADE THE PLUNGE!
SATURDAY 12:00 NOON JANUARY 20, 2018 MILL WAY BEACH BARNSTABLE VILLAGE IT WAS EXILARATING! THANK YOU TO ALL WHO MADE THE PLUNGE |
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A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE
BARNSTABLE HARBOR NEW YEAR'S DAY SPLASH COMMITTEE |
RICHARD FRENCH
ED ROBINSON ANN CANEDY JOHN STACKHOUSE SUSAN FRENCH DEBBIE ROBINSON |
TO READ MORE ABOUT THE 2018 PLUNGE GO TO OUR 'COMMUNITY SPONSORS PAGE" BY CLICKING ON THE FOLLING LINK
Community Sponsors |
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Thank you Rich French for dropping by Dance in the Rain with the proceeds from the Splash which totaled over $6,000.00!
What a wonderful gift to begin the New Year with. "a population worth investing in" |
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Building Wholeness
A Program of Healing and Moving Forward in Life
Created and developed by Mary E Munsell
Consulting Psychiatrist Julie Callanan MD., PHD
A Five Day workshop covering the following five Building Blocks:
(Accountability) Building Block I
Emerging from self focused thinking
(Decision-Making) Building Block II
Developing the courage and strength to make difficult decisions
(Knowing Yourself) Building Block III
Facing and controlling what once controlled you
(Wholeness) Building Block IV
Becoming whole, no longer fractured
(Beyond Coping) Building Block V
Having reasons to continue to move forward
"A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.-
It has been my experience with the current mental health system that the mindset the system promotes is one of maintenance and coping. For me, that was a death sentence. Every time I asked for help I was told to use my coping skills. I felt as though I was constantly treading water to maintain my illness. When the challenges came I had to tread water faster until the challenges past, forever treading water. I eventually became so tired I nearly lost my life. I needed to find a way out of the water. I needed reasons to keep moving forward in life.
In 2011 began to put together over thirty-five years of experience living with a mental illness. I began a long intensive six year journey of creating (Building Wholeness). It is a journey of healing developed as I navigated through the mental health system and a life in turmoil.
I edited and re-edited this program as I gained a deeper understanding of healing and each concept I was trying to express.
As I began to build the program I was lucky enough to be associated with Dr. Julie Callanan MD., PHD. I was able to bring my thoughts and ideas to her and discuss them with her and get an honest open opinion. Over the years she realized the uniqueness of the program and agreed to become the consulting psychiatrist for (Building Wholeness).
"Healing is becoming what you were created to be and shedding what the world has made you" -Mary E Munsell
(Accountability)
Understanding to whom and what you hold yourself accountable to.
To truly understand to whom and what you hold yourself accountable to helps you understand who you are.
Realizing that your world is larger than you may have always believed.
Understanding that everything is not always about you.
Understanding the 'ripple effect' in your actions and decisions.
When you truly understand the depth of accountability it can be the wake-up moment in your healing journey.
Accountability is the foundation in which Building Wholeness stands.
(Decision-Making)
Developing the courage, strength and tools to change the way you make decisions.
Increasing the space between stimulus and response.
Understanding that change in the decision-making process is brought about by deliberate action.
Learn why you make the decisions you make.
(Knowing Yourself)
Begin to control regressive cycles.
Controlling and minimizing triggers in your environment.
Recognizing red flag behaviors.
This is a step towards having control of your illness.
Understanding that being triggered is not a failure but a time to act.
(Wholeness)
You are not limited by your illness, You are a whole person.
Challenge false beliefs.
Claim the power in your Tapestry (your life-story).
A time to rebuild and create a life of wholeness on a new foundation.
Become who you were meant to be.
(Beyond Coping)
Shed the maintenance and coping lifestyle.
Develop reasons to continue to move forward in life.
Your old coping skills will once again become things you enjoy. They will be used for leisure purposes once again.
When you have reasons to continue to move forward you are more prepared to meet challenges and learn from them rather than trying to cope until they pass.
If you are interested in the next Building Wholeness Workshop please fill out the contact form below
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These workshops are made available through a grant from Cape Cod Healthcare
Artwork By: Mary E. Munsell
Startling Statistics
*The Cape & Islands Region has the largest suicide rate in Massachusetts.
* Preschoolers are the fasting growing market for antidepressants. At least 4% of preschoolers are clinically depressed. (Health and Human Services - Federal Government)
* Nationally, we loose one life by suicide every 15.8 minutes. Suicide in the eleventh leading cause of death overall and is the third-leading cause of death among youth and young adults aged 15-24. (US Public Health Service)
*The Cape & Islands Region has the largest suicide rate in Massachusetts.
* Preschoolers are the fasting growing market for antidepressants. At least 4% of preschoolers are clinically depressed. (Health and Human Services - Federal Government)
* Nationally, we loose one life by suicide every 15.8 minutes. Suicide in the eleventh leading cause of death overall and is the third-leading cause of death among youth and young adults aged 15-24. (US Public Health Service)
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Dance in the Rain
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Come use our safe comfortable space! If your looking for a place to work on projects that you would like to work on but would like to work on in the company of others come on in. We have WI-FI, hot coffee, tea, the use of kitchen space. We have a color printer, scanner and copier plus an extra computer. Also the use of a phone to make some calls.
Maybe your looking for some help in navigating the confusing mental health system. We have all been there and we are still going through it. We learn from each other. We also offer one to one peer engagement to help with any issues you may be facing. Dance in the Rain will also help you prepare for a psychiatrist appointment so that the doctor gets a larger picture of where you are in your life not just a snapshot of how your presenting during the appointment.
Perhaps your feeling a bit in crisis and just need to talk. We are here. We are great listeners, after all we have been in the same place you are many times before.
Would you like some insight on why you might be stuck and seem to doing the same things? A fresh perspective from others who understand on an intimate level rather than an observational level? It might be refreshing?
Do you want to do something different this time? Fill the gaps in your support system? Stop having people trying to fix you all the time. Would you like to have people walk along side of you and respect you for who you are and where you are? How about having people support your dreams and ideas?
Grow at your own pace. Be unique and be who you are. It just might surprise you!
Dance in the Rain is what you make of it.
Come grow with us and develop something spectacular for peers living with mental health challenges.
Maybe your looking for some help in navigating the confusing mental health system. We have all been there and we are still going through it. We learn from each other. We also offer one to one peer engagement to help with any issues you may be facing. Dance in the Rain will also help you prepare for a psychiatrist appointment so that the doctor gets a larger picture of where you are in your life not just a snapshot of how your presenting during the appointment.
Perhaps your feeling a bit in crisis and just need to talk. We are here. We are great listeners, after all we have been in the same place you are many times before.
Would you like some insight on why you might be stuck and seem to doing the same things? A fresh perspective from others who understand on an intimate level rather than an observational level? It might be refreshing?
Do you want to do something different this time? Fill the gaps in your support system? Stop having people trying to fix you all the time. Would you like to have people walk along side of you and respect you for who you are and where you are? How about having people support your dreams and ideas?
Grow at your own pace. Be unique and be who you are. It just might surprise you!
Dance in the Rain is what you make of it.
Come grow with us and develop something spectacular for peers living with mental health challenges.
Our office hours are: *unless otherwise noted*
Monday: 10:00am to 4:00pm
Tuesday: 10:00am to 4:00pm
Wednesday: 10:00pm to 6:00pm
Thursday: 10:00 to 4:00pm
Closed Friday and Saturday.
Please Stop by for a chat and a cup of coffee or tea. We would love to meet you and hear your thoughts and ideas. Come and use our open art studio. We have many different art supplies that you can experiment with free of charge. Find out what Dance in the Rain is all about. Don't go it alone anymore! Come engage with those who understand.
Monday: 10:00am to 4:00pm
Tuesday: 10:00am to 4:00pm
Wednesday: 10:00pm to 6:00pm
Thursday: 10:00 to 4:00pm
Closed Friday and Saturday.
Please Stop by for a chat and a cup of coffee or tea. We would love to meet you and hear your thoughts and ideas. Come and use our open art studio. We have many different art supplies that you can experiment with free of charge. Find out what Dance in the Rain is all about. Don't go it alone anymore! Come engage with those who understand.
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Use door next to ProCuts!
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Join our new online peer support group!
Get peer support and engagement 24/7/365 To Join Go To: groups.yahoo.com/Danceintherain-wpa Follow the prompts to join. You will need to get a Yahoo ID and password but you can have the groups emails send to any email server. Only members of the group may view posts. CHECK IT OUT AND JOIN US! DON'T GO IT ALONE ANYMORE. WE HEAR YOU AND UNDERSTAND! |
It's about options! The more options you come into contact with the greater the opportunity for growth.
Dance in the Rain believes offering peers opportunities to engage in social settings, through meetings, workshops, events and other venues gives a person an opportunity to strengthen and build their personal support system. An integral building block in the foundation in creating life as it will be lived.
Dance in the Rain believes offering peers opportunities to engage in social settings, through meetings, workshops, events and other venues gives a person an opportunity to strengthen and build their personal support system. An integral building block in the foundation in creating life as it will be lived.
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