Every Person Tells A Story: Understanding The Diversity of Hearing Voices
17 & 18 November 2026, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Intervoice Day: 16 November (online)
Find out more and get tickets: https://psykovision.dk/world-hearing-voices-congress-2026/
The World Hearing Voices Congress brings together voice hearers, loved ones, professionals and allies from across the world in a shared space of listening, learning and connection. At the heart of this congress is a simple and powerful idea: every person is a story.
Human experiences of voices, visions, paranoia and related phenomena cannot be reduced to categories or diagnoses. To make sense of these experiences, we need to listen to the unique stories behind them.
The congress invites participants into what can be understood as a living library of human stories. Here, people meet not as labels or cases, but as individuals with lived experience, insight and knowledge. Meaning emerges through dialogue – by engaging with experiences from the perspective of the person who lives them.
The strength of the World Hearing Voices Congress lies in diversity: diversity of age, culture, gender and identity, and diversity in how people understand and respond to their experiences. Through workshops and sessions, this diversity is explored using many approaches, including conversation, storytelling, theatre, art and other relational ways of making sense together.
Rather than fitting people into predefined boxes, the congress creates space for curiosity, respect and shared understanding. By listening to many different stories, we deepen our understanding of the full range of human experience – and of what it means to live with and relate to voices and visions.
