Mad Campaigns Lab is a space for NSUN members (individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, and/or trauma, as well as grassroots, user-led mental health groups). If you are not already a member, sign up for free here.
Part 1: 10th June, 4.00-5.30pm. Panel & discussion
How are madness, the mental health crisis, and climate justice interlinked? What does it mean to say that climate justice is mental health care? Join us for an NSUN-hosted Q&A to learn more.
This session will include a presentation and discussion between NSUN and our speakers, two climate justice organisers working at the intersection of mental health (Tori and Hannah). This first half will be recorded but this will not include participants’ names or faces. After the break we will take questions from the audience, which will not be recorded.
This session includes minimal participant interaction (bar asking questions, if you’d like), and you are welcome to join and simply listen in!
About our speakers
Tori Tsui is an environmental campaigner, author and advisor from Hong Kong. She is a senior advisor for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, campaigner for the Stop Rosebank coalition and works across a variety of initiatives within the music industry including Brian Eno’s Earth Percent, In Place of War’s Earth Sonic and Climate Live. Her debut book It’s Not Just You won Waterstones’ books of the year awards and was shortlisted for the Wainwright prize. Click here to learn more about Tori’s work.
Hannah Hunt is an activist and campaigner with experience organising in the UK climate movement, including with Just Stop Oil, as well as in the animal rights movement. Shaped by her own experiences of mental illness and the psychiatric system, Hannah is interested in the intersection between climate justice and our experiences of mental illness – particularly how systemic crises shape madness and what it means to build connected movements for collective liberation.
Part 2: 17th June, 4.00-5.30pm. Action session
What does solidarity look like between the Mad, Disabled, and climate justice movements? How do we move beyond campaigning in silos? How do we incorporate climate justice into our work around Mad/Disability justice?
Join the NSUN team for an action session, identifying ongoing campaigns and building our own goals around climate justice and mental health activism.
This session will be facilitated by the NSUN team. Participants will be asked to contribute, but you are welcome to join however you see fit including keeping your camera off, listening along, or participating only via the chat.
About Mad Campaigns Lab
Mad Campaigns Lab is a monthly online meet-up for folks interested in campaigning around mental healthcare, Mad liberation, and Disability justice. Free to join and open to all NSUN members, regardless of policy & campaigning experience.
Our 2026 programme focuses on issues that intersect with mental ill-health, distress, or trauma. The aim of the sessions are to:
- Expand understandings of issues which are connected to mental ill-health, distress, or trauma
- Develop a broader awareness of what ‘counts’ as mental health work
- Create spaces for knowledge sharing on mental health and Disability justice
Design campaigning goals; identifying key players and strategies for change
Take a look at the full programme.
Who is it led by?
The space is led by Courtney Buckler (she/they), Head of Policy and Campaigns and Kieran Lewis (he/him), Rights and Migration Policy Manager. We will also be joined by other members of the NSUN team to support with tech, moderation, and access.
Group agreement
By signing up you agree to:
- Follow NSUN’s online event conduct agreement.
- Maintain confidentiality by not sharing information about Lab members, actions, or campaigns beyond the meeting.
- Not share the Zoom link/joining instructions with anybody else. Our sign-up process helps us to track how many people will be joining, and to prevent (as best as possible) the unlikely event of folks joining in bad faith.
- The full group agreement, which was developed with members at our first meeting and will be shared during the sessions and updated as and when the group feels it is necessary.
If you would like the registration form in an alternative format or have any questions about the Lab, please email Courtney at courtney.buckler@nsun.org.uk.
Access
You can find an Easy Read Guide to joining Zoom meetings here.
If you need help with costs to be able to access this event, we may be able to make a contribution – please get in touch with us at info@nsun.org.uk.
Zoom closed captions will be available to turn on during the meeting.
We will be asking that attendees keep themselves on mute while others are talking to avoid audio distractions.
Please let us know of any access requirements in your sign up form and we will try to accommodate them as best as we can.
About NSUN
This meeting is free to attend. It is for NSUN members (individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, and/or trauma, as well as grassroots, user-led mental health groups). If you are not already a member, sign up for free here.
NSUN is a charity and membership organisation of people and grassroots groups with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma and distress, working towards the redistribution of power and resource in mental health. You can find out more about us here.