Phil Borges: Storyteller and filmmaker Phil has done several TedTalks about a documentary (Crazywize) he has been working on for over four years. He has been exploring indigenous cultures to learn what they might tell us. This one (15 minutes) discusses serious mental illness over the decades. He shares some of the interviews they have preformed.…
You’re going to smile when you see Minimalism: A Documentary About The Important Things. It’s on Netflix. The main characters are compelling. They reach a point in their lives that it all comes together. What they do next just makes sense to them. They are not selling anything, except maybe a book. Their first audiences…
Home of Open Dialogue and Experiment in Basic Income As we think through designing Hope Family Village, we know that the cohousing platform is ideal. For a community to work requires everyone pitching in, in some way, to support their neighbors and their community. What brings us together is the need for mutual support and…
Paris Wiliams Experiencing FREERethinking Madness, Author If we ever pause to wonder why we are passionate about creating a “place” that we call Hope Family Village, this short documentary film (30 min) called Surviving Schizophrenia begins to explain why. Featured are Elyn Saks and Paris Williams, who are both well known to the survivor and NAMI communities. Varietal concepts…
It’s official! Hope Family Village (HFV) was born at Nick’s Spaghetti and Steak House in Gloucester Point, Virginia on December 1, 2016.You have been directed here from our web site address. Thank you Phil Trench for helping me do all of this so painlessly. Bear with me, it’s not an elaborate site. More important, we…