York & Selby Recovery Services in collaboration with the University of York present…
9.30am-3.30pm, Friday 19 October 2012
Friends Meeting House, Friargate, York, YO1 9RL
The conference is aimed at people who are experiencing mental health problems, their families and professionals. The day will explore: Continue reading “New Perspectives on Hearing Voices (York, 19 October)”
World Hearing Voices Day celebrates hearing voices as part of the diversity of human experience, increasing awareness of the fact that you can hear voices and be healthy. It challenges the negative attitudes towards people who hear voices and the incorrect assumption that hearing voices, in itself, is a sign of illness.
Every year for the last five years we have celebrated World Hearing Voices Day. The theme this year is to celebrate 25 years of the existence of INTERVOICE and the Hearing Voices Movement and to look to the future too.
The International Community for Hearing Voices today celebrates a growing awareness that voice hearing is part of the diversity of human experience and that people can hear voices and be healthy.
To read about what’s happening across the world today, check out: Intervoice’s World Hearing Voices Day page Continue reading “Happy World Hearing Voices Day!”
Mind in Camden’s London Hearing Voices & Paranoia Projects are recruiting for new part time development workers. The first opportunity is to work for 14 hours per week on their Voice Collective (young people’s) project. The second is to work for 21 hours per week on the London Paranoia Groups Project. If you, or someone you know, is interested in these opportunities the closing date is Friday 24th August at 10.00am. Please send you applications direct to Mind in Camden (admin@mindincamden.org.uk), rather then to us at HVN.
See: www.mindincamden.org.uk/jobs.htm for more information. Continue reading “Job Opportunities: London Hearing Voices & Paranoia Projects”
Voice Collective, a London-wide project supporting children and young people who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual perceptions, have released a brand new animation to challenge stigma. Watch this clip below: Continue reading “Young People & Hearing Voices: Animation”
Eleanor Longden, speaking live at the TED@London Talent Search, explains how she has transformed her relationship with her voices and taken control of her life. In this powerful short clip, Eleanor explains how a diagnosis of schizophrenia and the view of voices as a symptom led her to take an ‘agressive stance’ against her own mind. Having found a way of making sense of her voices and their link to difficult life experiences, Eleanor found a way of living alongside them. Continue reading “Eleanor Longden Speaks Out: TED@London”
If so Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust are having a gathering at a local venue with guest speaker Rufus May on:
Tuesday 19 June 2012, 10.00 – 3.00pm
Continue reading “Rufus May at Tyne Hearing Voices Gathering”
Working to Recovery have recently launched free personalised respite and recovery breaks for people who want to engage with their emotional, spiritual and mental health issues in a positive way.
Karen Taylor and Ron Coleman, have years of experience in helping people pursue their own recovery agendas and are funding this initiative through their own means (assisted by donations). Continue reading “Respite & Recovery House In The Isle of Lewis”
Date: 2nd & 3rd October, 2010 | Venue: Conference Aston, Birmingham
Free and subsidised places are available to service users and carers. Please contact ISPS UK for more information.
Keynote speakers and workshop leaders include: Alison Brabban, Jacqui Dillon, Gráinne Fadden, Chris Holman, David Kennard, Peter Kindermann, Julian Leff, Brian Martindale, Glenn Roberts & Jaakko Seikkula Continue reading “ISPS UK Residential Conference (October 2012)”
Date: 1 June 2012, 10.00 – 4.30pm
Venue: Birmingham City University, Seacole Building, Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, B15 3TN
In partnership with Birmingham City University
Since its’ radical beginnings in the late 80s, HVN has seen, and been part of, a sea change in the psychiatric system. Hearing Voices Groups are an accepted form of support for poeple who hear voices or see visions. With this success comes a challenge – how do we move forwards and sustain the spark and innovation that has helped to make us so strong? How do we form partnerships and hold on to what makes us unique? Continue reading “National Conference: 25 Years of HVN, Looking To The Future”
The ‘Schizophrenia’ Commission, launched by mental health charity Rethink, is currently gathering evidence from people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, those who work in the area and researchers. On 13 March, they put a special request out to encourage those who do not believe ‘schizophrenia’ is a useful or valid term to contibute their ideas and experiences too. The following is an extract from their website, explaining their position: Continue reading “Contribute to the ‘Schizophrenia’ Commission’”
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