May 18, 2011
Hearing Voices groups provide a safe place to talk about your experiences. You may feel that sometimes these experiences are very distressing and overwhelming, but sharing this can help.
Hearing Voices can be both an attack on personal identity and an attempt to keep it intact. The solution does not lie in suppressing the conflict but in accepting it and to keep in mind that it is normal to be different. We do not all respond to situations in the same way and getting to grips with the context is essential to understanding the behaviour and to facilitating support.
Aims of Hearing Voices Groups:
- Demystify the voices
- Build up a relationship and acknowledge the voices as part of ordinary life
- Finding processes of learning to cope with voices
- Keep in mind the idea that it is normal to be different
There are 100s of groups across the world. See our National Networks page to find out if there is a group near you.
May 16, 2014 | Groups
Voice Collective, a project that supports young people who hear voices in Greater London (UK) have shared the following interview with a young person who hears voices and facilitates one […]
Tags: Facilitation, Hearing Voices Groups, Peer Support, Young People
November 23, 2013 | Groups
Contributed by Mind in Camden’s London Hearing Voices Project. The amount of planning that you put into the Hearing Voices Group will depend on your individual situation, however in our […]
Tags: Facilitation, Guidance, Hearing Voices Group, Peer Support
August 20, 2013 | Groups
By Suzanne Engelen This seems a really simple question, but when I was trying to find an answer, it became clear it wasn’t simple at all. There are a lot […]
Tags: Different Perspectives, Facilitation Skills, Hearing Voices Group, Opinion, Peer Support
June 6, 2012 | Australia, Groups, News
Our colleagues from Australia (including Peter and Indigo) were recently featured in a documentary on The Project. It shows a pragmatic approach to working with people who hear voices can […]
Tags: Australia, Hearing Voices Movement, Media, Peer Support, Recovery
May 18, 2011 | Groups
IRIE Mind’s Hearing Voices Group (Hackney, UK) have created a you tube video about their group. The video includes some basic information about the group, alongside personal experiences of group […]
May 18, 2011 | Groups
A preliminary evaluation (2004) Sara Meddings, Linda Walley, Tracy Collins, Fay Tullett, Bruce McEwan and Kate Owen, Sussex Partnership Trust The study found that after attending the hearing voices group,members’ […]
Tags: Hearing Voices Groups, Research
May 18, 2011 | Groups, Personal Experience
A Voices Hearer Facilitator’s Account By John Exell I help run a hearing voices group which I will describe, but first a brief introduction. I am a voice hearer, diagnosed […]
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