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Job opportunity - Hearing voices development worker: Prisons and Secure UnitsMind in Camden Mind in Camden is currently seeking a motivated and creative individual to work on their exciting new 3 year project to develop sustainable peer support groups for prisoners who hear voices. This unique opportunity involves: setting up and co-facilitating groups within London prisons; training, developing and supporting new facilitators. You will have experience of facilitating groups or networks, an in-depth understanding of voice-hearing and peer support, excellent organisational skills and proven problem-solving abilities. Ideally, you will have some experience of working with offenders (or ex offenders). We particularly welcome applications for those with personal experience of hearing voices or seeing visions. Please phone 020 7911 0822 (24hrs) for an application pack or email admin@mindincamden.org.uk Closing date: Wednesday 10th March 2010. Interviews: Thursday 18th & 25th March. Project launch: 1st April 2010 Mind in Camden values diversity and welcomes applications from all parts of the community. Event to celebrate the relaunch of Asylum - the magazine for democratic psychiatryMonday 15 March, 6.00 - 8.00pm, University of East London Speakers: Jacqui Dillon (Chair of the Hearing Voices Network, and member of editorial collective), Dave Harper (member of editorial collective), Dr Joanna Moncrieff (author of The Myth of the Chemical Cure) & Gail Hornstein (author of Agnes' Jacket: A psychologist's search for the meanings of madness) If you wish to attend then please email Dave Harper (d.harper@uel.ac.uk) by Monday 8 March unless you are a UEL student or staff member. For more information: download the flyer below Directions at: http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/stratford.htm * * * National HVN consultation - the results are inThe national consultation of the Hearing Voices Network (HVN) took place between January and March 2009. The main aims of the consultation were to:
The results of this helpful and essential process are now available on this site in the form of two documents - the full consultation report and the main recommendations which arise from it. We would like to thank everyone who gave their time and insights in order to help us meet the above aims. You can download both reports by clicking on the icons below: Full consultation report: 227KB * * * New groups for Young People (aged 12-18) launching in London, FREE training for parents and supportersMind in Camden have recently launched Voice Collective - a new project developing peer support groups for young people (aged 12-18) who hear, see or sense things that other people don't. Their first two groups are now ready to launch - so if you know any london-based young people that may be interested - please let them know. The first group to launch is running in partnership with the Anna Freud Centre (Maresfield Gardens, NW3) and will run on Thursdays from 4.45 - 5.45pm. The second group is open to young people from the Tower Hamlets area, and is in partnership with The Level: Tower Hamlets Young People's Centre. This will run on Mondays from 4.30 - 5.30pm. For more info - email: info@voicecollective.co.uk, web: www.voicecollective.co.uk, call: 020 7241 8978 They are also running a short series of FREE workshops for parents/supporters on Monday 7th December and Monday 14th December, 6-8.30pm at The Anna Freud Centre (Maresfield Gardens, NW3). These are aimed at helping parents and supporters understand more about the experience of hearing voices/seeing visions, meet other parents/supporters and look at ways of supporting their young person.
* * * Understanding and Working With Voices (Sheffield, Monday 25th January 2010)Hearing Voices Network presents a special one day workshop: Understanding and Working with Voices. Date: Monday 25th January, 2010 Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm Venue: St Bartholomew’s Church Centre, Primrose Hill, Sheffield, S6 2UW Facilitators: Jacqui Dillon and Peter Bullimore: Experts by Experience Topics Include:
This workshop is open to professionals, carers and people with self experience or anyone who has an interest in hearing voices. Rates: Full Time £100, Part Time or Student £50.00, Unwaged £ 20.00. All Proceeds will go to the Hearing Voices Network Payment: Cheques made payable to HEARING VOICES NETWORK. Send to Peter Bullimore, Limbrick Centre, Limbrick Road, Sheffield, S6 2PE Tel: 0114 2718210 / 07714930740, Email: peterbullimore@yahoo.co.uk Tori Reeve 07590837017, Email: torireeve@hotmail.com Jacqui Dillon 07951635033, Email: jacquidillon333@aol.com For more information: download the flyer below * * * Invite to HVN's AGM (Wednesday 18th November, 2009)Dear member, you are cordially invited to Hearing Voices Network's Annual General Meeting at: Methodist Central Hall Wednesday 18th November, 2009, from 2pm - 5pm (Tea and Coffee will be provided) Please join us for our AGM where you can hear from our guest speaker, Peter Bullimore, and also hear about the work of HVN during 2008-2009, and find out about our plans for the coming year. We look forward to seeing you there. You can download a copy of the invite by clicking the word icon below * * * Hearing Voices Awareness Training (Exeter, Friday 4th December 2009)Jacqui Dillon and Peter Bullimore are hosting a one day running a one day Hearing Voices Awareness training course on Friday 4th December 2009. The training offers participants an opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the experience of hearing voices and to increase participant's confidence and skills in supporting people who hear voices. Course content:
Cost: Full Time Workers: £100, Part Time Workers and Students: £50, Unwaged: £25 (all funds raised will be donated to the Hearing Voices Network) Venue: Friends Meeting House, Wynards Lane, Magdalen Street, Exeter, Devon, EX2 4HU To book a place, email: info@hearing-voices.org or call: 0845 1228641 For more information: download the flyer below * * * Special Fundraising Conference for HVN a Huge SuccessThe special conference was held on 29th January at UEL, organsed as a fundraising initiative all speaker and workshop facilitators donated their services free to help HVN out of what we sincerely hope is a temporary funding crisis. As yet we cannot say exactly how much was raised until we get all the money in for this and our other fundraising initiative (A Special Day with Professor Marius Romme and Dr Sandra Esher). Then we will do our sums and let you know in the summer newsletter. The conference, attended by nearly 200 people, was a huge success. It was opened by Professor Mark Rapley from UEL who welcomed everyone. This was followed by the Chairs welcome from Jacqui Dillon who later presented her own very moving personal testimony about how she manages her experience of voices; explaining how her voices started as a child when she was the victim of a paedophile ring. She stated how important it was to be open and speak out about the issue - rather than collude with paedophiles by keeping silent about the long lasting damage they inflict on children. Peter Bullimore, Jan Holloway and Rachel Studley also gave personal testimonies. Lucy Johnstone gave a presentation on 'The Hearing Voices Approach as an Antidote to Psychiatry' and Paul Hammersley gave a presentation on CASL (the Campaign to Abolish the Schizophrenia Label). Parallel workshops were facilitated by Rufus May (Voice Dialogue: Talking With Voices), Sam Warner (Working with Child Sexual Abuse) and Hilary Mairs (Behavioural Activation as an Intervention for Emotional Shutdown). Tim Bradshaw facilitated Interventions for Improving Physical Health for people with Psychosis, Mike Smith - Working With Self Harm: Harm Minimisation and Dave Harper - Rethinking Paranoia. During the plenary there were interesting questions and discussions between the panel of speakers and workshop facilitators and the delegates before what everyone agreed was a very successful conference ended. * * * Mickey deValdaWe are extremely saddened to learn of the death of Mickey de Valda on the 20th September 2007. Mickey was chairperson of HVN for over ten years and his contribution to the network and the hearing voices movement was immeasurable. If you knew Mickey and wish to pay tribute to him go to http://www.intervoiceonline.org/2007/9/21/mickey-de-valda-in-remembrance-died-20th-september-2007 |
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