About - Woodland Sunflower Collective

My name is Karin Jervert, I am an artist, writer, and Mad Pride activist. Not many people know what Mad Pride is, nor do they know the meaning of the term Psychiatric Survivor. Together these terms represent what I chose to do with the life experience of overmedication and abuse due to clairaudient and clairvoyant visionary states. These terms also represent millions of people around the world who are working towards human rights and social justice in what is commonly called the “mental health industry”. As a person with lived experience of voices, visions and other aspects of diverse consciousness, I work to offer non-pathologizing frameworks and practices for living with and finding the gifts of these experiences.

I am the founder, teaching artist, and curriculum designer at Woodland Sunflower Collective, a collective centered around cultivating and embracing the potential of diverse consciousnesses, including clairvoyance, clairaudience, and visionary states.

My main personal offerings include walking with individuals to create visual journeys towards transformation and healing in conversation, walks in nature, and individual art making experiences. See this page to book an appointment with me. As a collective, we periodically offer online and in-person co-arting groups, as well as a guided ten week email course you can find more information about here.

Besides this work, I am also a performing poet as Sunday blu, and exhibiting artist. I have a graphic memoir, Tea and Ten Thousand Things on which have based graphic narrative and healing workshops. You can purchase copies here. I also have two books of poetry available on hopenumber29.com a website dedicated to my poetry.

For three years I served as the Arts Editor at Mad in America Foundation. Currently, I serve as the Mad in the World Liaison. Mad in America is a leading voice in critical psychiatry and is run by the Pulitzer-nominated journalist and author of Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker. I am a consistent editorial contributor and curated Creativity and COIVD: Art-Making During the Pandemic and Teen Arts: Beyond Labels and Meds. I also ran the first annual Mad Poetry Slam.

I have been interviewed on popular mental health podcasts Madness Radio and couragously.u and have been a panelist for SoundsAbout Gallery and CTM Festival on The Auditory Experience of Psychiatry as well as a presenter at the Alternatives Conference, National Empowerment Center and the International Institute of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal.