What Organization Leaders are saying

Thought I'd let you know that people who attended the National DBSA conference from our group on Saturday said yours was the best and the biggest of any of them.ÊThey bragged and bragged about you. Your book is fascinating and so full of good ideas.

JoAnn Martin, President DBSA California (Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance)

As the President of NAMI Sacramento, I cannot thank you enough for speaking to our membership April 3, 2006! We had the biggest turnout ever and estimate 160 people in the auditorium. We also had about half of the room filled with people who had never attended a NAMI Meeting before. Those people were excited to come to our meeting because of YOU and you were wonderful!

Here are a few of the comments we got after the show:

"I just wanted to tell you that I thought that Tom was absolutely wonderful last night.Ê I am really looking forward to reading his book and giving it to Owen.Ê It is so hopeful for me to hear success stories like Tom and others."

"Please tell me when Tom is coming back to Sacramento for another workshop - he was wonderful!"

In short, you were honest without being a downer, funny yet real, and completely captivating. I have a picture of you signing your books for the folks in the audience and hope you enjoy it.

I would highly recommend you as a speaker to any NAMI organization and thank you again for coming! I just hope we can find you a venue you would like enough to come back and do the 2-day workshop.

Your friend and supporter,
Heidi Sanborn, President - NAMI Sacramento

On behalf of the Western Riverside county NAMI (The National Alliance on Mental Illness) I would like to thank you for your speech on May 1, 2006. Several of our members were calling me afterward to say how much they enjoyed listening to you talk bout your struggles with bipolar disorder. Of course they also added to their comments on how much your book "The Bipolar Advantage" helped them turn the bad aspects of their bipolar illness into something good.

I was particularly pleased to hear that a number of our members were registered for your weekend workshop "Bipolar In Order". I recently received a call from one of my best friends who returned home from your weekend workshop. She came back with feelings of encouragement. She felt she could visualize an improved quality of well being with her bipolar disorder after being enlightened with the straightforward structure of your philosophy on how to take advantage of her illness.

Again I can't thank you enough for your inspiring speech. It was our privilege to have you at our Support Group meeting as a speaker.

Should your ever need any further endorsements of your book or workshop, don't hesitate to contact me. After seeing the effect you had on the audience I've become your biggest fan.

Sincerely yours,
Jan Kenny, President of NAMI Riverside County Western Region

We had Tom Wootton, the author of Bipolar Advantage speak last night in Thousand Oaks and the night before in Ventura. http://www.bipolaradvantage.com His lecture was so well received by everyone that I spoke with. Have you had him speak in your county yet? I highly recommend that you do, if you have not done so yet. We had 75+ people attend in each location. It is a great outreach program and he's a wonderfully engaging speaker. Our clients and families that attended were very impressed with him and expressed genuine interest in attending one of his weekend workshops. Tom gave me one of his Bipolar Advantage books for my F2F class library and I can't wait to read it.

I would love to see Tom Wootton get on the CAMI and NAMI National conference programs. I'm sure it's too late for NAMI National this year, but hopefully next year. Who is on the planning committee for the CAMI & NAMI conferences? I would like to forward this information to them. For those of you that don't know who Tom is, he was a highly successful business man that was dianosed with Bipolar I at age 45. He started holding support group meetings for other people with Bipolar and basically wrote down his experience from the support group and compiled it into a book. He has tremendous insite into his illness and uses turns the bad things from the disorder into a positive learning experience for himself and others.

Tom would make a wonderful keynote speaker or lecturer in one of the workshops. Although his topic is mainly about bipolar, his techniques can be applied to anyone, ill or well. It is a lecture that both clients and family members alike would want to attend.

Candace Jackson, Vice President - NAMI Thousand Oaks