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Who can join and how?

All organisations and individuals who support our aims and objectives are welcome to join.

To become a member please complete the membership form below and return with your subscription (cheque, Bank Standing Order, International transfer or by online transfer) either by email or to our postal address.

European Members: Membership form – Euro

USA/International Members: Membership form USA International

UK Members: Membership form UK

Send to: Intervoice, c/0 Mind in Camden, Barnes House, 9-15 Camden Road, London, UK, NW1 9LQ or send as attachment to info@intervoiceonline.org.

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If you are thinking about joining INTERVOICE in the future and/or want to receive our free bi-monthly newsletter, please email us to join our mailing list.

Why support the work of INTERVOICE?

We are proud to be able to say that our network focuses on solutions that improve the life of people who hear voices who and are distressed by the experience. We do so in the knowledge that these solutions have been developed in a close and respectful partnership between

Voice hearers– who are experts by experience

and friends, families mental health workers, academics and activists– who are experts by commitment and profession.

We invite you to formally support the work of INTERVOICE by becoming a member. In doing so you will considerably strengthen our cause and the cause of people who hear voices across the world.

The work and research carried out by INTERVOICE (The International Network for Training, Education and Research into Hearing Voices) supporters and others shows that:

• Hearing voices is not in itself a sign of mental illness.
• Hearing voices is experienced by many people who do not have symptoms that would lead to the diagnosis of mental illness.
• Hearing voices is often related to problems in life history.
• If hearing voices causes distress, the person who hears the voices can learn strategies to cope with the experience.
• This is often achieved by confronting the past problems that lie behind the experience.

By joining you can help INTERVOICE to:

• show that hearing voices is a normal though unusual variation in human experience
• show that the problem is not hearing voices but the inability to cope with the experience
• educate society about the meaning of voices so as to reduce ignorance & anxiety and to ensure this innovatory approach on voice hearing is better known by voice hearers, families, professionals and the general public
• demonstrate the wide variety of voice hearing experiences and their origins, and peoples’ approaches to coping and recovering from overwhelming voices
• increase the quality and quantity of mutual support available to all people and organisations involved in hearing voices work across the world
• make our work more effective and develop more non-medical ways of helping voice hearers cope with and recover from difficult voice experiences

As a member you can help us to make a difference, however you want to be involved. You can help us to influence services, the media, governments and wider society by helping us to spread the hopeful and positive message that voice hearing experiences are part of what makes us humans and are resolvable with creative and open minded support.

Join us today

We ask people who can, to pay at least £10 to cover the costs of membership. But we do not want your ability to pay to stop you from joining so you may also pay what you can. The knowledge and experience of all our members is the foundation of our way of working together and provides the direction for we do and the way we do it. We are already a powerful innovatory and campaigning force and with your support we will become even more influential.

Join INTERVOICE and help us in the continuing fight for change.

Benefits
As a member of INTERVOICE you will be notified of events, conferences, meetings etc.

• News from INTERVOICE on the topics that interest you
• We offer a discount of 10% on books, DVD’s sold through our online shop and for our annual INTERVOICE meeting and Congress
• We will also support and help anyone wishing to start a new National Network or group.