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INTERVOICE Newsletter Read our latest newsletter for
June 2010 here
INTERVOICE Online BookShop
In association with Working To Recovery we have collated the most useful publications on mental health issues that have influenced our thinking and work. You can read book descriptions, reviews and order online through our Amazon powered book shop click here
Feedback
Read a selection of the comments we have received from people telling us about their voice experiences here
Read a selection of the comments we have received from people telling us about what they think about our website here
TV and Radio Programmes
Jacqui Dillon - speaking about hearing voices on Radio New Zealand National: Jacqui Dillon was a guest speaker at a conference in April in Wellington and in Auckland at the Making Sense of Psychosis conference, held by Auckland University and organized jointly by the NZ branch of the International Society for the Psychological Treatments of Schizophrenia and the NZ Hearing Voices Network. here
Madness Radio: Violent Voices - Erica van den Akker: Erika, Dutch psychiatric social worker and Hearing Voices Movement member discusses her innovative counseling work with violent offenders who hear voices. here
Madness Radio: Hearing Voices Movement Jacqui Dillon
Jacqui Dillon, voice hearer and director of the UK Hearing Voices Network, discusses how the movement of people who hear voices is creating self-help alternatives to traditional and often abusive mental health care. Listen to the interview here
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.
See information about more TV and radio programmes on the subject of hearing voices here
EVENTS
Meetings, conferences and training events from around the world17-18th June 2010 Hearing voices workshop Hebden Bridge, England
With Dr Rufus May and Tim Gibbons.
More information here
21st June Trauma and Recovery with Rufus May and Rebecca Moran in London,
More information here
26 June 2010: Cultural Perspectives and Considerations and HVN AGMNew Zealand
HEARING VOICES NETWORK AOTEAROA NZ are pleased to present an afternoon program of Cultural Perspectives & Considerations. "To be able to understand voices and visions, we first need to understand our selves."
More information here
29th June 2010 Setting up and Supporting Hearing Voice Groups Cardiff, Wales
a One Day Training Workshops facilitated by Paul Baker
More information here
30th June 2010 Setting up and Supporting Hearing Voice Groups Wrexham, Wales
a One Day Training Workshops facilitated by Paul Baker
More information here
1st July 2010 Setting up and Supporting Hearing Voice Groups York, England
a One Day Training Workshops facilitated by Paul Baker
More information here
2nd July 2010 Setting up and Supporting Hearing Voice Groups Glasgow, Scotland
a One Day Training Workshops facilitated by Paul Baker
More information here
1st – 2nd July Hearing voices workshop Newcastle, England
With Dr Rufus May and Tim Gibbons.
More information here
22-23rd July 2010 Complex Trauma & Dissociation: Understanding & Working Towards Recovery University of Leeds
With Jacqui Dillon and Eleanor Londgen. A rare opportunity to work with trainers with both personal and professional experience, awareness and skills in the understanding and treatment of complex trauma and dissociation
More information here
25th – 27th August 2010: The Disabled Self. Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Stigma and Recovery Nottingham, UK
Final call for papers and discounted registration, deadline for submission of abstracts is March 31st 2010. Early Bird registrations received before April 30th 2010 will enjoy a discount. Marius Romme will be a keynote speaker. Further details, confirmed speakers, instructions about abstract submission and registration.
More information here
6th - 10th September: Working and Talking with Voices: 5 day residential course, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England.
With trainer and consultant Ron Coleman; Dutch psychiatrist and chair of INTERVOICE, Dirk Corstens; Voice hearer and award winning psychologist Eleanor Longden. This five day residential course looks both at the theory and practice of working with and talking to voices. To reserve a place or for more details email info@workingtorecovery.co.uk
14th September: World Hearing Voices Day: Events around the world, including a conference to be held in Denmark where the book ‘Living with Voices’ will be launched by the members of the Intervoice Board.
14th September World Hearing Voices Day Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark
with Marius Romme, Sandra Escher, Ron Coleman, Dirk Corstens, Ami Rohintz and a group of Danish Voice Hearers (speaking English). more information soon.
2nd, 3rd, 4th November 2010 Hearing Voices World Congress and INTERVOICE meeting
This years INTERVOICE meeting and World Hearing Voices Congress will take place at Center Parcs In Sherwood Forest, Nottingham, England on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of November 2010, More details available soon.
INTERVOICE NEWS
Welcome to the Hearing Voices Network Cymru Website! We would like to extend our congratulations to the Hearing Voices Network Cymru (Wales) for the launch of their new website. Best wishes to Hywel Davies, the chairman of the network for this excellent initiative. You can see the website here
Intervoice Scandinavia: A new regional network The new Scandinavian network was established at a meeting in Oslo in March. There is a working group of six representatives, two from each national network. The national representatives are: Denmark - Anders Schacov & Trevor Eyles; Sweden - Siv Wetterberg & Ami Rohnitz; Norway - Hanne Moss & Siri Blesvik.
A New Network is formed in Greece The recent visit to Greece in March by Peter Bullimore, Jacqui Dillon and Brian Langshaw has had a big impact in Thessaloniki and in Athens. A group has started in Thessaloniki and there are plans to set up a support network for voice hearers and translate materials into Greek. More on these developments soon.
HVN New Zealand have launched an excellent and comprehensive website, with practical advice, information on cultural perspectives, personal stories, resources and contacts etc. you can visit the site here
Normal Difference, Mental Health Kariobangi
is a new project supported by INTERVOICE in Kariobangi, one of the many ghettoes in Nairobi (Kenya) offering respectful and empowering support for people suffering from conditions like depression, anxieties, delusions or unusual experiences. You can see photos & read their aims and objectives here and find out more about the organisation & how you can help here.
VOICE COLLECTIVE: New peer support group for young people who hear voices Mind in Camden, London has launched a project to support young people (aged 12-18) who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual sensory perceptions. They are working in partnership with a range of agencies experienced in supporting vulnerable young people to develop peer support groups across London. Visit the VOICE COLLECTIVE website to find out more here you can also download an information leaflet here
Working across the world to spread positive and hopeful messages about the experience of hearing voices
We are people
who hear voices, family members, friends, mental health workers, activists, and concerned citizens.
Find out how we work together here
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.
Find out what visitors think about our site here
Find out what visitors tell us about their voice experiences
here
The Worldwide INTERVOICE Network: Information on National Initiatives
For information about national networks and other initiatives click here
Announcing the 2010 Hearing Voices World Congress
World Hearing Voices Congress, speakers and evening entertainment ....
There is now a short one page pdf version of the notice for the World Hearing Voices Congress to be held in Nottingham, 2nd - 4th November 2010. We would be very grateful if you could circulate it amongst your networks. You can find the pdf here. A list of the evening entertainment schedule for the congress is available here
If you are attending on your own or as part of a small group (and do not want or need a complete bungalow) we can assist with your accommodation arrangements by pre-booking a single or shared room. For more information contact Paul Baker at admin@intervoiceonline.org
Please note the discounted accommodation price offered by Center Parcs has been extended until the middle of July.
World Hearing Voices Congress 2009 DVD
We are producing a 3 DVD set of the keynote presentations; recovery stories and the workshop on trauma and voices. It will be avaialable soon and you can preorder your copy now at a special discounted price of £60 (70 euros). for more information email Paul at admin@intervoiceonline.org
Courage, Determination, Creativity and Optimism were the core messages delivered at The First World Hearing Voices Congress
Maastricht, 17th - 18th September 2009
You can read all about the event here
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At this year’s INTERVOICE meeting, Prof Marius Romme resigned from his formal duties with INTERVOICE. Marius has done outstanding work with the formation of Hearing Voices Networks around the globe, and we wish him well in his retirement!
A message from Professor Marius Romme, MD, PhD, President of INTERVOICE
Psychosis as a personal crisis: an experienced based approach
A description and endorsement of the significance of the work of the hearing voices movement. It has been written as a foreword to a soon to be published book and has been written by by Manuel Gonzalez de Chavez, Professor and Chief of the Psychiatry Service of General University Hospital, Madrid. (Spain) and former President of ISPS .
You can read the foreword here
Available Now! Questionniare for children and young people who hear voices
This questionnaire has proved to be useful in getting a fuller picture of chidrens voice hearing experiences.
Download your copy here
Open letter to Oprah Winfrey
in response to the program about
“The 7-Year-Old Schizophrenic”
We have written this letter in response to the Oprah Winfrey program about Jani, "The 7-Year-Old Schizophrenic”, broadcast on the 6th November 2009. Read it here and download your own copy here
New information leaflet for parents and carers intended to help you to develop new and more empowering ways of thinking about your child's experiences and to help you find ways to assist your child. Click on the title to read this very helpful information leaflet
CASL petition calling for the abolition of Schizophrenia Label
Find more about the Campaign for the Abolition of the Schizophrenia Label visit their site here
See article by Marius Romme about why he thinks the SZ label should be abolished here
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
See Greek language version here 
See Italian language version 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 more about talking to your voices
Latest entries on this site:
The First World Hearing Voices Congress Maastricht, 17th - 18th September 2009
In section: About INTERVOICE |
Beyond consultation: the challenge of working with user/survivor and carer groups
In section: Alternative perspectives |
Renaming schizophrenia - a good or bad idea?
In section: Research |
Interviews with voice hearers in Cambodia
In section: Research |
