Our Brother Legion

Our Brother Legion creates belonging and develops practical ministries for/ with/ and on behalf of people living with mental illness, substance abuse, trauma, as well as caregivers.

Because shame, misunderstanding, and stigma so often accompanies our constituencies, Legion strives to be a ministry that provides "soft approaches for hard topics." Traditional educational models tend to emphasize knowledge based approaches to mental illness in a way that excludes relationship and nuance. Legion seeks to offer approaches to the greater mental health field that encourage questions, empathy, and spiritual coping skills. 

Legion is a non-clinical organization. We don't offer medical or counseling services. We do provide personalized dialogues and non-threatening interactions which are open to many combinations of small groups, faith based groups, and corporations. 

Legion recognizes serve to people who are diagnosed or not diagnosed, the spiritual needs of families experiencing any form of brain disorder or addiction, and the credibility and diversity of religious considerations regarding ideas of disease and healing.

The best way to welcome you into Our Brother Legion is through our categories:

Bloom & Thorn Meditation & Mobile Art Garden: The Mobile Art Garden is a simple vehicle that brings a calming space and a time of meditation anywhere including warehouses, alleys, parking lots, congregations, and board rooms. Sunday and Monday are the days during which most suicides take place so the goal is to provide quality, affordable mental health options specifically during the early days of the week whenever possible.

What kind of volunteers would like this opportunity? Organizers who will help to coordinate the mobile art garden (creative publicity) and hands-on/ visual folks who could help make final touches on the mobile art garden.

Greater Winston-Salem Homeless Persons' Memorial Day: On December 21, which is the shortest day and longest night of the year, we gather to remember people who died during the past year due to homelessness or because of a time in their life of homelessness. We remember people's names and say in spiritual resolution that one day this service will not be necessary.

Volunteers are needed for (1) worship preparation, (2) publicity, and (3) to co-create and run a GWSHPMD interactive exhibit at Christmas for the City.

Soft Approaches to Hard Topics: This is the bread and butter for Our Brother Legion including practical suggestions for ministries through speaking engagements. The art shown below correspond to biblical and/or theological approaches to communication, community, and care for folks wanting an interactive, non-clinical, ministry informed introduction or development to mental illness, trauma, or addiction. 

Creative volunteers needed to increase Legion's presence and visibility on social media, submitted articles, and published ministries. Volunteers: writers, social media, local resources, planners for big events like the Wild Goose Festival, and visual artists. Meets monthly.

Sunburst Ministry: This is Legion's exhibit at Christmas for the City 2019. It's an art-based approach to making our own soft approaches for hard topics. Volunteers: visual art and people engaged in healing public dialogue.