Hearing Voices & Other Unusual Experiences
Introduction
Please note that this course can be delivered anywhere in the UK.
‘Hearing Voices’ is simply a catch-all term for hearing, seeing, tasting, feeling or smelling things that no one else can. In psychiatry they are seen largely as meaningless symptoms of illnesses such as schizophrenia. Research however, has shown that somewhere between 3 and 10% of the general population have had these experiences, but only 1% get involved in the mental health system. Why is this?
Aims
Purpose of training is to increase knowledge and empathy for people who hear voices and have other unusual experiences.
Who is this workshop for?
Suitable for anyone wishing to make sense of the voice hearing experience , including mental health/social services professionals, psychotherapists and counsellors, voluntary sector workers, voice hearers and their friends and family.
Course summary
- My Story by Dolly Sen – Writer, director, artist, award winning poet and mental health consultant
- Facts & Figures
- Hearing Voices – what is it?
- Exploration of different models of the Voice Hearing Experience.
- Voice Hearing and History
- Voices exercise
- The 3 phases of voice hearing
- Medication and Side Effects
- The Hearing Voices Movement, How did it come about?
- How to support yourself/people who hear voices
- Good coping strategies vs non-coping strategies
- Tips/strategies/making sense of it.
Course duration
1 day (lunch not included)
Cost
£95 – Statutory and non-statutory sectors
£60 – Voluntary sector and students
£25 – Service users and carers