

MDO is a registered nonprofit, volunteer-run organization
that supports people with mood disorders and their loved ones.
Contact Us
Email: info@mooddisordersottawa.ca
Phone: 613-974-6902
Suite # 203, 11-300 Earl Grey Drive
Ottawa, ON, K2T 1C1
Mood Disorders Ottawa
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Pathways to Recovery In Person Expectations:
-Peer participation and engagement
-Shared learning
The Pathways to Recovery in person program (12 weeks) combined with the Self Help workbook takes a strengths based, self help approach to recovery. Pathways will take you through a process of exploring your own recovery journey while creating a long-range vision for your life. The workshop format allows individuals to explore their current lives and set goals across ten life domains that include creating a home, learning, working, nurturing a social circle, intimacy and sexuality, wellness, leisure and spirituality.
Pathways helps you to identify your personal strengths and dreams, and refocus on reclaiming positive sources of identity and a life beyond being a person with a mood disorder or a consumer of mental health services. It helps you think about and plan how to improve your quality of life and to live a full life, despite your history or challenges.
Our goal in using this program is to provide a supportive culture for people to explore their own recovery in a self-directed and self-controlled way, but done in group setting so that the experience can involve mutual support and building peer relationships that support and sustain recovery. Our hope is that people who participate in this program, and incorporate the work into their own journeys of healing, will one day receive most of their life's supports and resources outside of the mental health system.

Directions to Tulip room
Directions to New Location for In-person Peer Support Group - MDO at the Ottawa Civic Hospital
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Enter the hospital through the main entrance
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Walk straight down the main hallway (shown by the red arrows on the map)- until you reach a large open area and see the “Tulip Cafe” sign above
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Follow the arrow slightly left through the large double doors and enter the cafeteria
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Walk straight until you can turn left and head towards the cash registers
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Turn right and walk past all of the cash registers
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The Tulip Conference room will be directly in front of you
Additional Info:
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Please note: Parking on community streets around the hospital is free after 5pm
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Ottawa Hospital has a scent free policy