Katie Mottram

Katie is an Author, Speaker Campaign Founder, Film Producer and Project coordinator with a background in mental health.

Katie was drawn to work in the mental health field after her mother's suicide attempt, but the negative conceptual framework led her to try to take her own life due to the feelings of shame and unworthiness it generated. She was then led to seek a different perspective when she experienced a profound spiritual awakening during a meditation in 2012.

She was one of the Founding Directors of the International Spiritual Emergence Network, providing a collaborative platform for the global networks that exist to support people going through the spiritual emergence process. Her personal story is featured in the publication by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice: Stories of Mind and Soul, 2016, and in her own book; Mend the Gap, 2014.

Katie founded the International anti- stigma campaign in support of those experiencing a difficult transformation process; #Emerging Proud: www.emergingproud.com and the Emerging Kind; a project training Peers to hold 'Safe Space' support groups.

Her current project is creating the ‘KindaProud’ series of ‘Pocket Books of Hope’ for people experiencing different themes of mental distress. KindaProud empowers passionate Peers to tell their stories and be validated in doing so by a growing community that values authenticity, vulnerability, equality and honouring of differences. This helps build confidence and reciprocity of support. The project is empowering Peers to bravely speak out, own their story, and in doing so offer HOPE of not just recovery, but transformation to themselves and others.

Find out more detail about Katie’s book, film and projects here: www.emergingproud.com