Community Meeting ( July 15 ): From Fragments to Fractals: Peer-Led AI, Storytelling, and Inclusive Mental Health Futures

[Justin Obara]

Sorry the wrong link was sent before. The correct zoom room is https://ocadu.zoom.us/j/84955597918?pwd=phsalHsuBb1goiSM40IhEvEuq5dl05.1

> On Jul 14, 2025, at 9:46?AM, Justin Obara <obara.justin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Reminder about the community meeting taking place tomorrow from 2 - 3pm ET in Zoom <https://ocadu.zoom.us/j/82743278568?pwd=KzQ0Nkc2R1lSYllhVFk1d1lQUDJSdz09>. See below for details.
> 
> Thanks
> Justin
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>> On Jul 9, 2025, at 8:46?AM, Justin Obara <obara.justin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> At next week?s Community Meeting <https://fluidproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/fluid/pages/11513504/Community+workshops+and+design+crits> ( July 15, 2025 ) Tracy Windsor will be talking about From Fragments to Fractals (FFtF). Please see the description and attachments for further details.
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>> Description:
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>> From Fragments to Fractals (FFtF) is a participatory research and storytelling project that gathers, traces, and synthesizes diverse knowledge fragments related to mental health broadly, and a particular focus on psychosis, and peer support?from training manuals to academic articles to lived experience reflections in recorded interviews, focus groups, etc. Will likely use AI for analysis, which the tools for REFRACT AI will be trained on.
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>> The project centers liberatory ethics, values consent and citation, and aims to build an open-source repository that honors grassroots wisdom alongside academic knowledge. While the initial phase focuses on psychosis-related materials, the platform is designed to grow and welcome content across mental health, social care, and community healing spaces.
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>> REFRACT AI is the digital constellation that will emerge from this repository: a peer-led, modular suite of tools that support narrative exploration, skills practice (e.g. DBT/CBT), decision-making, and ethical system navigation. These tools adapt to user role (peer supporter, clinician, etc.) and are grounded in inclusive, relational design practices.
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>> Will share the conceptual foundations of both projects and open up space for dialogue on:
>> Designing backend source-tracking and consent infrastructure
>> Honoring lived experience and co-creation in AI training
>> Building accessibility and responsiveness into mental health technologies from the ground up
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>> Time:
>> 2:00 - 3:00pm ET
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>> Location:
>> Remotely: Zoom <https://ocadu.zoom.us/j/82743278568?pwd=KzQ0Nkc2R1lSYllhVFk1d1lQUDJSdz09> <https://ocadu.zoom.us/j/84955597918?pwd=phsalHsuBb1goiSM40IhEvEuq5dl05.1> 
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>> Please visit the Inclusive Design Critiques and Workshops <https://fluidproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/fluid/pages/11513504/Community+workshops+and+design+crits> wiki page, for more information including the schedule of upcoming events. 
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>> Contributions are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International?License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> and follow the Fluid and Inclusive Design Community Code of?Conduct <https://fluidproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/fluid/pages/11537403/Inclusion+in+the+Fluid+Community>. (Note: some demonstrated/presented or discussed software, hardware, research, tools and etc, may have their own license.)
>>  
>> Thanks
>> Justin
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>> <250707 DRAFT FFtF Project Proposal.pdf>
>> <The+Lens+Lab+pitch+deck+(REFRACT+AI,+RESONANCE)-compressed.pdf>
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