Voices Vic Training & Events

Voices Vic offers training and special events to mental health professionals, carers and voice hearers interested in the approach. Our courses are based on feedback from people we work with - so if there's something you'd like to see us offer, please let us know.

To attend a course, please complete our online registration form or contact us for more information.

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Customised In-house Training

2011 Training & Events Calendar

2011 Voices Vic Conference

Workshops & Network Meetings

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 at your premises or an external site.

To find out more, email us today.

2011 Upcoming Training Courses & Events

Click here to register for Voices Vic training & events.

Date/s

Course / Event Title

Facilitator/s

Cost*

CLOSED

5 Apr 2011

Introduction to the Hearing Voices Approach & Facilitating Groups

The perfect course for anyone wanting to know more about the approach, and/or interested in starting a hearing voices peer support group.

A one day hands-on workshop to get you ready to begin your hearing voices group and give you an overview of the hearing voices approach.

Practice techniques for group facilitation, ideas for group content, voices resources, and common challenges for working with voices.

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 started.

Voices Vic Team

Full fee $180

Students/Carers $60

Consumers $30

CLOSED

2-3 May

2011

Abuse, Trauma & Dissociation

Understanding and working towards recovery.

A rare opportunity to work with a trainer who has both personal and professional experience, awareness and skills in the understanding and treatment of complex trauma.

Enhanced confidence, responsiveness and awareness for supporting survivors of trauma and abuse.
Increased knowledge of working therapeutically with dissociative experiences and use of the DES-II (Dissociative Experiences Scale).
Greater understanding of the clinical relevance of dissociation.
Awareness of effective short and long-term strategies for reducing distress and gaining control.
Acquired skills and knowledge to work collaboratively with survivors of trauma and abuse to help them reclaim ownership of their experiences and work towards recovery.
Knowledge and awareness of the risks of vicarious trauma, and how to keep ourselves safe when supporting distressed individuals.

Suitable for anyone wishing to understand more about healing from trauma and working with dissociation, including mental health professionals, psychotherapists and counsellors, voluntary sector workers, survivors and their friends and family.

Jacqui Dillon

Full fee $240

Students/Carers $95

Consumers $30

6 - 9 June 2011

Working & Talking with Voices: An Intensive Four-Day Workshop

This innovative workshop looks both at the theory and practice of working with and talking to voices, using techniques developed by pioneers Ron Coleman and Prof. Marius Romme and further developed by Rufus May, Eleanor Longden & Dr Dirk Corstens.

The course will enable practitioners and voice hearers to understand the theory behind techniques and the ability and confidence to use new ways of working towards recovery.

During the course each participant will have individual time with all 3 tutors to practice the techniques. Dirk will also offer a “clinic” to all voice hearers to discuss diagnosis, medication, treatment & to answer where possible any questions the voice hearer may have.

Learning Outcomes:

An understanding of Hearing Voices
Understand developing coping strategies
Understand working within belief systems
Understand Voice Profiling
Confidence & awareness in working with voices
Practice in voice dialoguing
Developed a toolkit for working with client’s voices
Confidence to use the Voices Workbook
Using the Maastricht interview schedule
Understanding voice hearing & dissociation

Ron Coleman

Dr Dirk Corstens

Eleanor Longden

Full fee $1,050

Students/Carers $450

Consumers (Waged) $450

Consumers (Unwaged) $120

ONLY 4 PLACES STILL AVAILABLE

ACCEPTING LAST MINUTE REGISTRATIONS.

19 Jul & 23 Aug

2011

Transforming Lived Experience into Expertise – Parts One & Two

A practical two-part workshop run by a consumer, for consumers, to boost skills and confidence in group facilitation. A two-day course, with a 4 week break in the middle for practice and consolidation.

Topics include: introduction to group work and recovery, group interpersonal skills, dealing with difficult group situations, group planning and evaluation, group dynamics, and an introduction to peer work, including boundaries, using your own experience in group settings, and challenges and opportunities of peer work.

This course is not specific to voice hearing - it is suitable for any peer worker.

Indigo Daya

Waged consumers $125

Unwaged consumers $30

9 Aug 2011

Introduction to the Hearing Voices Approach & Facilitating Groups

The perfect course for anyone wanting to know more about the approach, and/or interested in starting a hearing voices peer support group.

See course description above.

Voices Vic Team

Full fee $180

Students/Carers $60

Consumers $30

15 Sep 2011

World Hearing Voices Day!

Voices Vic is thrilled to announce the first Victorian World Hearing Voices Day Celebration!

Join us for a great afternoon of live music, open mic performances, and special guests. Bring your poetry, music or rap to share with everyone!

For people with lived experience, their friends and family, and support workers.

Voices Vic

Full fee $20

Students/Carers $10

Consumers $5

17 Oct

2011

Spirituality, Voices & Visions

An innovative new workshop which explores the spiritual context of voices and visions, from the point of view of both voice hearers and workers.

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. Additionally, 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 sensitively and effectively with people who hear spiritual voices. It will also offer a range of explanatory frameworks for voice hearers themselves.

Brendan Burton

Full fee $180

Students/Carers $60

Consumers $30

* Voices Vic, Prahran Mission, is a not-for-profit organisation. Voices Vic receives no government funding, and relies on grants, donations, and income from our training in order to provide our services. If you are having trouble affording our training fees, please contact us to work out an arrangement.

Voices Monthly Workshops & Meetings

For group facilitators, aspiring group facilitators, and anyone interested in getting more involved in the network...

Group Facilitator Workshops

GET SUPPORT & IDEAS!

Voices Vic runs a free hearing voices group facilitator workshop every second month.

Who can attend? These workshops are for people facilitating groups, or those aspiring to facilitate groups. Attendees include mental health workers, voice hearers and carers – anyone who does or would like to facilitate a group. The range of different experiences in each workshop provides for rich conversation.

What happens? Workshops are facilitated by the Voices Vic team. Each attendee has the chance to share successes and challenges from their groups, and to seek the input of other workshop attendees. This is a great space to problem-solve, get new ideas or just access the support of others who are acting in a similar role. The Voices Vic team will also share strategies and tips for facilitating groups, and any relevant news.

Hearing voices groups are still new in Victoria, and we are all building our skills together. These workshops facilitate sharing, learning and support during this process.

Voices Vic Network Meetings

GET INVOLVED!

Voices Vic is a network that belongs to you. We run an open meeting every second month, to get your input into the hearing voices network itself.

Who can attend? Anyone interested in Voices Vic, or working with voices, is welcome to attend.

What happens? Voices Vic believes in the values of transparency, inclusion, collaboration & creativity. These meetings are a chance to live these values. You can find out what Voices Vic has been doing, and our upcoming plans. We’ll share various topics, like growth in groups, individual work, research, support, funding, promotion, stigma reduction, training and events, and well as practical issues and innovations. You can also raise topics, and there is opportunity for discussion and contribution at all times.

The Details

Where & How? To make access easy for people living in regional areas, workshops and meetings can be accessed via a telephone conference number – or you are welcome to attend in person. To use the telephone conference, just call in at the right time using the details below:

Local Melbourne callers dial: 8414 5110

Regional callers dial: 1800 333 803

Follow the prompts and enter the “participant PIN”: 185 733 0537

When? Workshops and meetings alternate each month, and the following dates are set for 2011.

Workshop Dates (1:30 – 3:30pm)			Network Meeting Dates (1:30 – 3:30pm)
Mon 10 January	Wed 9 March	Tue 10 May	Tue 1 February	Mon 11 April	Wed 15 June
Mon 4 July	Wed 7 September	Tue 8 November	Tue 2 August	Mon 10 October	Wed 7 December

RSVP? To attend please email your RSVP.

Click here to download a printable copy of this schedule.