Spirituality & Mental Health

Objectives

• To advocate and promote study, research, training and advances in spirituality and global mental health including what mediates outcomes of religion and spirituality in mental health.
• Develop and promote guidelines to support spirituality and mental health.
• To collaborate with other national and international organizations with an interest in and expertise in spirituality and mental health.
• To organise educational opportunities to enhance understanding of spirituality and mental health.
• To organize symposiums, workshops, and other scientific activities about spirituality and mental health at the World Congresses of the WFMH and its regional conferences.
• To develop proposals for WFMH consensus statements about spirituality and mental health.
• Hold intra-sectional activities and meetings to promote interdisciplinary relationships and connections between different areas in the field of mental health.

Action Plan & Roadmap
Members will work together initially using online discussion to agree a three-year roadmap to implement the following:

• To advocate and promote study, research, training and advances in spirituality and global mental health including what mediates outcomes of religion and spirituality in mental health.
• Develop and promote guidelines to support spirituality and mental health.
• To collaborate with other national and international organizations with an interest in and expertise in spirituality and mental health. 
• To organise educational opportunities to enhance understanding of spirituality and mental health.
• To organize symposiums, workshops, and other scientific activities about spirituality and mental health at the World Congresses of the WFMH and its regional conferences.
• To develop proposals for WFMH consensus statements about spirituality and mental health.
• Hold intra-sectional activities and meetings to promote interdisciplinary relationships and connections between different areas in the field of mental health.

Members as Decision Maker
Members will make decisions ethically as a group and have a single voice on issues once decisions have been made. Members will draw on expert advice and encourage robust debate in reaching its decisions. As far as possible, Members will reach decisions by consensus but where this is not achievable or efficient a majority decision will be carried forward with the voice of each Member having equal weight.