Voices Vic Training

29 Sept 2010

Starting Your Hearing Voices Group

Trainers: Indigo Daya, Sandi Noble & Janet Karagounis

A one day hands-on workshop to get you ready to begin your hearing voices group. Practice techniques for group facilitation, ideas for group content, voices resources, and common challenges. Includes a workbook and a follow up visit to your first group by the facilitators. Ideal for people with less experience of group facilitation, or needing some extra support to get their group going.
 

Janet has facilitated hearing voices groups in community and forensic settings, and has lived experience of hearing voices and recovery. Sandi Noble has 14 years experience as a disability worker and has facilitated Hearing Voices Groups for five years in community and forensic settings. She also does individual work with voice hearers based on the Maastricht Interview. Indigo Daya has a consumer background, 5 years experience as a community worker, is a post-graduate psychology student and has facilitated hearing voices groups in the community for 12 months. 

All trainers have received training from Ron Coleman, Rufus May, Dirk Corstens, Jacqui Dillon, Peter Bullimore and John Watkins.

Late Nov 2010

Voices Work - The Latest Ideas & Research

Trainer: Indigo Daya

Wishing you could go to the 2010 Intervoice conference in Nottingham? Never fear, Voices Vic will be there, and we plan to bring back all the best ideas, strategies and research for working with voices in this special one-day training event.

More information to come.

On your schedule

Customised In-house Training

Voices Vic can design a training package to suit your organisation's needs.  Available topics include: 

• Starting a hearing voices group
• Using the hearing voices approach in individual work - strategies & philosophy
• Overview of the hearing voices approach
• Understanding the hearing voices experience
• Incorporating the hearing voices approach into your organisation

We can structure training to fit around your schedule, provide workbooks and resources - and do it all all your premises or an external site. 

To find out more, email us today.

Feb 2011

Working with Voices, Paranoia and Unusual Beliefs

Trainer:  Peter Bullimore

2011

Trauma and Voices

A number of research studies tell us that around 70% of voice hearers experienced some type of trauma in their lives before hearing voices.  More often than not, when we explore the voice hearing experience in detail, we can find many links between the content and context of a person's voices, and past trauma.  Unfortunately all too often, voice hearers have not had an opportunity in their lives to address these traumatic experiences appropriately.

Voices Vic plans to bring out an international expert to provide training on the relationship between trauma and voice hearing.  This course will provide an understanding of voices in the context of people's lives, and teach practical strategies to assist people to make the connection, and to work constructively with others to address past traumas in their lives.  This is not a course on how to be a counsellor - but it will teach you how to better understand, acknowledge, and work with a person in these cicumstances.

2011

Spirituality and Voices

Many voice hearers locate their experience in a spiritual context.  Hearing the voice of God, demons or angels - or believing that their voices are directing them on a divine mission.  Further, many cultural and spiritual traditions have a long history of acknowledging and respecting the voice hearing experience.

This enlightening training course will examine differing belief systems around voices and spirituality, and provide strategies and a helpful context for how you can work more senstively and effectively with people who hear spiritual voices.

24 Feb 2010

Starting Your Hearing Voices Group

Trainers: Sandi Noble & Janet Karagounis

A one day practical workshop to get you ready to begin your hearing voices group. Learn practical techniques for group facilitation, ideas for group content, voices resources, and common challenges. Includes a workbook and a follow up visit to your first group by the facilitators. Ideal for people with less experience of group facilitation, or needing some extra support to get their group going.
 

Janet has facilitated hearing voices groups in community and forensic settings and has attended training with leading international experts in hearing voices. Janet has lived experience of hearing voices and recovery. Sandi Noble has 14 years experience as a disability worker and has facilitated Hearing Voices Groups for five years in community and forensic settings. She also does individual work with voice hearers based on the Maastricht Interview. Sandi has received training from Ron Coleman, Rufus May, Dirk Corstens, Jacqui Dillon, Peter Bullimore and John Watkins.  

21-22 April 2010

The Hearing Voices Approach

Trainer: Jacqui Dillon

A two day training course which covers the history and philosophy of the hearing voices approach, the three phases of voice hearing, dissociation and the relationship of trauma to hearing voices. This course provides the foundational knowledge for ‘Starting Your Hearing Voices Group’. 

Jacqui Dillon is a writer, campaigner, international speaker and trainer specialising in hearing voices, psychosis and trauma. She is the national Chair of the Hearing Voices Network in England, has published several papers and is on the editorial board of the journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches. Along with Professor Marius Romme and Dr Sandra Escher she is co-author of the book, Living with Voices, an anthology of 50 voice hearers’ stories of recovery. Jacqui is also a voice hearer.

27-28 April 2010

Individual Work with Voices

Trainer:  Dr Rufus May

A two day training course for people wanting to do one-on-one work with voice hearers. Learn how challenging voices behave, how to use the Voice Dialogue model to understand and work with voices (this includes role play exercises), strategies for coping and understanding, and how to form a construct of the voice hearing experience.

Rufus May, currently working as a clinical psychologist in the NHS in England, is recognised internationally for his work promoting holistic, creative and respectful approaches to mental health and recovery. Rufus has lived experience of the mental health system and his own recovery. For more information, visit www.rufusmay.com
 

2 June 2010

Starting Your Hearing Voices Group

Trainers: Sandi Noble & Janet Karagounis

A one day practical workshop to get you ready to begin your hearing voices group. Learn practical techniques for group facilitation, ideas for group content, voices resources, and common challenges. Includes a workbook and a follow up visit to your first group by the facilitators. Ideal for people with less experience of group facilitation, or needing some extra support to get their group going.
 

Janet has facilitated hearing voices groups in community and forensic settings and has attended training with leading international experts in hearing voices. Janet has lived experience of hearing voices and recovery. Sandi Noble has 14 years experience as a disability worker and has facilitated Hearing Voices Groups for five years in community and forensic settings. She also does individual work with voice hearers based on the Maastricht Interview. Sandi has received training from Ron Coleman, Rufus May, Dirk Corstens, Jacqui Dillon, Peter Bullimore and John Watkins.
 

7 - 8 Sept 2009

Hearing Voices Facilitator Training

Trainer: Jacqui Dillon

Learn about the Hearing Voices approach, and how to start and facilitate a Hearing Voices Group. 

13 July 2009

Individual Work with Voice Hearers

Trainer:  Trevor Eyles

Learn about the Hearing Voices approach, and how to use the Maastricht Interview and Voice Dialoguing to assist voice hearers to profile and better understand their voices.