Health Events in Minneapolis

A special screening of a film families, advocates, and providers across the country are talking about. Join NAMI Minnesota and NAMI Ramsey County for a powerful community screening of No One Cares About Crazy People. Inspired by Ron Powers’ acclaimed book, this moving documentary offers a deeply personal look at severe mental illness in America — exploring the realities families face and the growing movement for change. Narrated by Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) with original music by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. Whether you live with mental health challenges, support someone who does, work in the field, or simply want to better understand the system, this event offers a meaningful opportunity to learn, reflect, and connect with others in the community. A brief live Q&A will follow the 96-minute screening. Limited scholarships available; send inquiries to publiceducation@namimn.org.

Our 3rd Annual Anselm House Healthcare Symposium featuring bioethicist, physician, and former Franciscan Friar, Dr. Daniel Sulmasy. Modern healthcare emphasizes a clinician’s diligent and competent technical prowess. Modern medicine was profoundly formed in the context of 20th century modernity and a mentality that sociologist Jacque Elull called “A Technological Age.” Everything about modern healthcare now revolves around technology in service of efficiency. Yet, few clinicians entered healthcare to fill check boxes or produce widgets. And yet to survive many clinicians feel they have to abandon the deeper interpersonal and existential reasons that brought them to caring work. Older wisdom suggests humans are not just brains attached to machines weighing their options and optimizing their preferences. They are whole beings, whole persons with intrinsic worth worthy of care as children of God. If healthcare work is a whole person business, it must recover or reawaken embodied presence and attunement to another’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs as the basis for that work. This two-day healthcare symposium will explore what it means to care for the whole person in the health professions including intellectual, practical, and attitudinal dimensions. Through engaging lectures, conversations, reading, reflection and fellowship, we will re-awaken and inspire clinicians for the head-heart-hands wholeness of healing work in the midst of dehumanizing forces in modern high-tech healthcare.