Rogers team members praise "Every Brilliant Thing"
05/20/19 03:21:pmMembers of the Rogers Behavioral Health team had positive things to say after attending the Rogers-sponsored play “Every Brilliant Thing,” which was recently showing at the Repertory Theater in Milwaukee.
Rogers outreach representative Kim Peterson was in attendance and complimented the production, specifically mentioning the benefit it had for the community by showing major depressive disorder from the angles of child and spouse.
“I think the play does a fine job illustrating how we try to normalize situations and still move forward with life even in excruciatingly difficult circumstances—resiliency and grit that child/adolescent therapists refer to often,” Kim says.
Dana Francisco, RN, inpatient nurse in Oconomowoc, says that seeing the play made her want to re-do parts of her own life, and it also created an even stronger conviction for her to help others.
“I saw the deep importance for mental health patients I serve to be open and vulnerable, so we can meet them there, and how our attitude, assistance with daily goals, and commitment to give them choices of ways to process and heal is so important,” she says. “The list of brilliant things worth living for should be done by all of us; it is a list we could add to anytime, and then revisit on those days when life seems so cloudy and gray, and we are losing hope. I started mine on the way home.”
After each performance, a response was given by a community leader to discuss the content and themes of the play. Sue McKenzie, VP of culture and InHealth, and Brock Maxwell, executive director of operations in Skokie, represented Rogers for two of these guest responses, which were recorded and links to each can be found below.
Sue also wrote a short blog on the four ways the play helped to jumpstart important discussions around mental health, found here.
Sue McKenzie Guest Response
Brock Maxwell Gest Response
