Our Vision
Imroc exists outside of traditional systems to challenge and improve existing cultures and practices around mental health, and to generate cultures of transformation. We want to help create systems and communities that provide hope, control and opportunity for all of us, and enable us all to live well in an inclusive and equitable society.
In practice this means: We inspire, empower and transform cultures, services and individuals through offering coaching, training, thought leadership, consultancy and research. We build on our tried and tested experience nationally and globally to drive forward recovery focused, trauma informed, neuro-affirming and rights-based support and services. We draw on cultural, community, experiential and professional expertise to do this. We offer a place for the wisdom of adversity to guide and nurture authentic healing.
Our Mission
We strive to continuously move toward liberation: for people, for systems and for communities. Liberation involves naming oppressive structures or forces, and being committed to challenging these. We acknowledge that liberation is an aspiration rather than a destination, that it takes courage and hope, and that change can be both radical and measured.
Through continual generative conversations, we will shift the paradigm around emotional distress from the western biomedical understanding to person-centered, culturally and socially informed, trauma-responsive, recovery-focused understandings that enable individual and collective liberation.
Our Values
Belonging: which includes fostering strong relationships, based on trust, solidarity, compassion and loyalty. Maintaining connection to our own lived and life experiences and acknowledging the importance of community and opportunity in routes to healing and growth.
Openness: being prepared to reflect, learn and be changed by new ideas and relationships. Being curious about what we know and what we believe we know. Being honest and transparent in our relationships and our actions.
Quality: to hold ourselves accountable to high standards. To consistently work with integrity and aspire to be the best we can be. To know the importance of artistry in achieving quality, acknowledging that any work that supports liberation is a craft which demands creativity, vision and imagination, as much as it does science, knowledge and discipline.
Equity: to celebrate and value difference, and create systems which welcome this. To work to remove barriers, both within ourselves and within society and systems which exclude, oppress and stigmatise. To work to enable lived experience voices to be heard and to redistribute power and control to enable this.
Watch the video below to hear our CEO Julie Repper, one of the founders of Imroc, discuss our core values:
Our Board of Trustees
As a Charity we have a committed Board of Trustees who play a vital role in guiding and supporting our mission. Their key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, managing finances and approving budgets, monitoring performance, identifying risks, providing guidance, ensuring ethical operations and contributing to strategic planning.
Chris Frederick
Rachel Munton
Mike Slade
Sue Barton
Steven Michael