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Second World Hearing Voices Congress and Intervoice Meeting
"Raising Our Voices, Speaking Our Truths", 2 - 4th November, Center Parcs, Nottingham
Participants include: Marius Romme, Sandra Escher, Dorothy Rowe, Gail Hornstein, Dirk Corstens, Bobby Baker, Peter Bullimore, Jacqui Dillon, Rufus May, Simon Mullins, Debra Lampshire, Caroline Von Taysen, Olga Runciman, Eleanor Longden, Rachel Waddingham, Trevor Eyles, Sam Warner, Odette Nightsky plus many more!
Intervoice Meeting: 2nd November
Experts by profession: £90, Experts by experience: £45
Congress: 3rd and 4th November
Two Days: £250 (full rate, waged), £125 (part time, student, family members), £80 (unwaged)
One Day: £130 (full rate, waged), £65 (part time, student, family members), £45 (unwaged)
For more information, or to book your place, contact Peter Bullimore (0771 493 0740), Jacqui Dillon (0795 163 5033) or Tori Reeve (0759 083 7017) or download the booking form below.
Download PDF files: Booking Form
Hearing Voices, Paranoia & Unusual Beliefs (Blackburn, 10 - 3pm, 19th May 2010)
To raise money for both the Chorley & Blackburn Hearing Voices Group and the Hearing Voices Network, Peter Bullimore and Chorley South Ribble and Blackburn Mind are running an exciting one day seminar/workshop as an 'Introduction to Hearing Voices, Understanding Paranoia and Usual Beliefs'.
Aimed at people who hear voices, relatives, students, workers and anyone with an interest in making sense of the voice-hearing experience, this day will cover
- The 3 stages of hearing voices
- An insight into what it feels like to hear voices
- Personal accounts of voice hearing
- Supporting coping strategies for hearing voices
- Making sense of paranoia & unusual beliefs
- Supporting appropriate intervention techniques for paranoid beliefs
Rates: Waged: £50, Students: £35, Unwaged: £20 (proof of benefit will be required)
For more information, download the flyer and booking form, or call 01257 231660
Download PDF files: Flyer | Booking Form
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HVN office has moved to Sheffield - change of address
The Hearing Voices Network office has now moved to Sheffield. Our new contact details are:
Hearing Voices Network
c/o Sheffield Hearing Voices Network
Limbrick Day Service
Limbrick Road
Sheffield, S6 2PE
Telephone: 0114 271 8210, Email: info@hearing-voices.org
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Event to celebrate the relaunch of Asylum - the magazine for democratic psychiatry
Monday 15 March, 6.00 - 8.00pm, University of East London
Stratford campus, Room AE 1.01 (in the Arthur Edwards building)
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
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Document: 45KB
Directions at: http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/stratford.htm
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National HVN consultation - the results are in
The national consultation of the Hearing Voices Network (HVN) took place between January and March 2009. The main aims of the consultation were to:
- Review HVN's achievements
- Revisit HVN's aims and objectives
- Re-vision HVN to enable it to become a sustainable and more effective organisation
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 Consultation plan recommendations: 64KB
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New groups for Young People (aged 12-18) launching in London, FREE training for parents and supporters
Mind 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.
Download PDF files: AFC Group Flyer: 294KB, Parent Workshop Flyer: 204KB
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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:
- The 3 Stages of Hearing Voices
- Deconstructing Voices
- Dissociation
- Coping Strategies
- Case Studies
- Personal Experience
- Deconstructing Voices: Simulation exercise
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
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Document: 21KB
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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
Oldham Street
Manchester, M1 1JQ
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
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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:
- The Subjective Experience of Voice Hearing
- Deconstructing Voices: Simulation exercise
- The Hearing Voices Movement
- Current Research and Innovative Approaches to Hearing Voices
- The Relationship Between Hearing Voices and Life Experiences: Understanding the Issues That Lay at the Roots of the Voice Hearing Experience
- Living with voices: Coping Strategies That May be Useful to People who Hear Voices
- How to Help: Developing Supportive Alliances with Voice Hearers
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
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Document: 20KB
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Special Fundraising Conference for HVN a
Huge Success
The 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.
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Mickey deValda
We 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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