EVENTS
Meetings, conferences and training events from around the world16th July 2008
Hearing Voices: A Holistic Approach
Birmingham, UK
This conference looks at transforming relationships with voices, therapy, self-help groups, creativity, medication, different explanations for voice hearing, empowerment and recovery.
Hearing Voices Network England
More information here
17th July 2008
Hearing Voices Network Annual General Meeting
Birmingham, UK
Planning for the future to make HVN more sustainable and secure.
More information here
14th September
It's Good ToTalk: World Hearing Voices Day
Worldwide
Our international awareness day combats the secrecy and stigma surrounding hearing voices. More information here
10-12 September 2008 Asylum! Conference and Festival, Manchester, UK Updated programme and more details of speakers and themes
More information here
15th– 19th September 2008, St Andrews, Scotland
Making Recovery Happen: Training Trainer's for Change
A week long residential course designed to create capacity for recovery and enable services to utilise their skills towards making recovery happen.
22nd - 25th September 2008
Working with and Talking to Voices Scotland
4 day residential course featuring Dirk Corstens & Eleanor Longden and the voice dialogue methods used by Rufus May in the drama-documentary "The Doctor Who Hears Voices".
More information here
4th - 5th of November 2008, Recovery and Psychosis
International Recovery Conference conference More information here
Hosted by Hearing Voices Network Australia and Richmond Fellowship WA.
6th - 8th November 2008. Voices and Emotions
INTERVOICE Meeting, Perth, Australia
Download the flyer for the INTERVOICE meeting here and the full programme here
Working across the world to spread positive and hopeful messages about the experience of hearing voices
Hearing Voices: Easy to understand introduction to the issue of hearing voices:
Online broadcast and transcript using a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world you live.
The Worldwide INTERVOICE Network: Information on national initiatives
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Wales 
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See Greek language version here
See Italian language version here
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Dedicated INTERVOICE member, Ron Coleman has committed himself to having his beloved hair chopped off for charity. The money raised will be used to assist voice hearers and workers from unfunded hearing voices networks to attend the annual INTERVOICE meeting to be held in Perth, Australia in November 2008. Ron will attend his favourite Hairdressing salon in Dundee, Scotland on the 24th of September where the “shaving” will take place, administered by Ron’s' stylist Sharon. A video recording of the event will be placed on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Click on title for more information on how you can sponsor Ron
The Scottish Hearing Voices Network is planning to set up a national office to support the development of hearing voices groups throughout Scotland. They have written a draft proposal and would like to hear what voice hearers from Scotland think about their ideas. They would also be happy to hear from other people concerned with hearing voices too. Click on the title for more information on how you can get involved
If you hear voices (aka auditory hallucinations); if you know someone who does; if you work with people who hear voices; if you want to know about more about this experience. Then this site is for you.
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Know?* Studies have found that between four and 10 per cent of people across the world hear voices.
* Between 70 and 90 cent of people who hear voices do so following traumatic events.
* Voices can be male, female, without gender, child, adult, human or non-human.
* People may hear one voice or many. Some people report hearing hundreds, although in almost all reported cases, one dominates above the others.
* Voices can be experienced in the head, in the ears, outside the head, in some other part of the body, or in the environment.
* Voices often reflect important aspects of the hearer's emotional state - emotions that are often unexpressed by the hearer.
Twelve more essential facts about the experience of hearing voices here
Voices and Emotions
Join us at the next INTERVOICE Meeting, to be held in Perth, Australia
Voices and Emotions
Join us at the next INTERVOICE Meeting, to be held in Perth, Australia
The dates for the next INTERVOICE meeting have been confirmed as the 6th, 7th, and 8th November 2008. The meeting will follow an International Recovery Conference conference Recovery and Psychosis to be held on the 4th and 5th of November 2008. Hosted by Hearing Voices Network Australia and Richmond Fellowship WA.
Download the flyer for the INTERVOICE meeting here, the full programme here and the Expression of Interest Form here
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World Hearing Voices Day
Sunday 14th September 2008
Our international awareness day combats the secrecy and stigma surrounding hearing voices.
Many people who hear challenging voices have found that a turning point in learning to cope with this experience has been finding different ways of talking with and understanding their voices. Learning to understand the motives of your voices and different ways of talking with them can help the relationship to change between the voice hearer and the voices. IT´S GOOD TO TALK ....
Find more about WHVD2008 and what will be happening here
"Many people who hear challenging voices have found that a turning point in learning to cope with this experience has been finding different ways of talking with and understanding their voices. Learning to understand the motives of your voices and different ways of talking with them can help the relationship to change between the voice hearer and the voices...."
Click on the title above to read the highly recommended article by Dirk Corstens, Eleanor Longden and Rufus May about the methods used by Rufus May in "The Doctor who Hears Voices" shown on UK TV on the 21st April 2008. Over a million people watched it when it was broadcast and thousands of people are now down loading from several Internet sites. It has provoked a strong response from viewers. Many people have been inspired by the film, others more attached to a medical approach to distress have been outraged, read Rufus Mays' reflections on making the film here
We talked about the voices ... Eleanor Longden, a voice hearer, describes her experience of talking to her voices in the UK mass circulation newspaper The Daily Mail, 07/02/2008
I discovered that if I engaged with the voices, they became less frequent. I also learnt to challenge the more threatening voice, refusing to do what it told me and telling myself it was no more than a symbol of my own externalised anger. .. One by one the voices gradually disappeared, until I was only occasionally hearing one... Three years on, I am healthy, happy and perfectly stable.
Talking to Voices DVD: Professor Marius Romme
See Marius Romme explaining the theoretical basis for voice dialoguing, then with the help of a voice hearer demonstrates the voice dialoguing technique. buy your own copy here
Working with and Talking to Voices
4 day residential course featuring Dirk Corstens & Eleanor Longden (see Daily Mail article above) and the voice dialogue methods used by Rufus May in the drama-documentary "The Doctor Who Hears Voices".
22nd September to 25th September 2008
To download the programme for the course click here
If you wish to to ensure a place on this popular course you can reserve one now, please contact Working To Recovery
Our new anthems
In tribute to your creativity, two pieces of music have been produced for INTERVOICE, the first by Mary Maddocks, the second by Martin Brotheridge
"Voices" by Mary Maddocks
listen to it here
This song was specially written by Mary to acknowledge and celebrate the experience of people who hear voices.
read the lyrics here
The voice the muse...
by Martin Brotheridge
by Martin Brotheridge
An instrumental track inspired by the experience of hearing voices, read what Martin says about the tune and listen to it here
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Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
Contributing writers include INTERVOICE members: Sandra Escher, Maths Jesperson, Hannelore Klafki, Rufus May, Marius Romme, Philip Thomas
Read a review of the book by Karl Koehler, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Bonn here
Order your copy now!
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Scottish Hearing Voices National Office and Support Service Consultation: Background papers
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Hearing Voices: Easy to understand introduction to the issue of hearing voices
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