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23.07.10
Working with Voices for Professionals
Hearing Voices Awareness (2-Day) Workshop
25 & 26 August 2010
ENROLMENT FEE $220. PLACES ARE LIMITED
Participants must attend both days
How to apply
Download the Flyer to Register by mail or fax.
What’s it like to hear voices or experience beliefs that others consider to be unusual or unreal?
Does hearing voices or having unusual experiences mean one is mentally ill?
The program includes info about
- Hearing voices and other like experiences
- Working with Voices Approach— the background to it all
- Simulated voices exercise
- Consequences of hearing voices
- The research
- Voice profiling and dialogue
- Basic group facilitation
Who should attend
Anyone who works in the areas of:
- Mental health
- Child & family welfare, Youth welfare
- Justice
- Education
- Aged care
- Substance abuse
- CaLD communities
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Nursing
- Occupational Therapy
- Community Services including social workers, care workers, support workers and managers.
Feedback received from participants
The following are comments that are emerging from participants of the HVNA workshops.
- Listening to Marlene’s personal experiences was a fantastic way to get perspective and understand the everyday experiences of voice hearers
- The voice simulation exercise was great as it really helped me to better understand the experience of hearing voices
- Marlene’s lived experience, openness, honesty and courage to share her story with the group made the 2 days more interesting and inspiring
- Overall this was one of the best courses I’ve been to
- I’ve learnt how I can be of more help to clients and residents
- I realize now not be frightened when someone tells me they hear voices
- I’ve come away understanding the normalizing of hearing voices
- The information was real
- It was good to watch DVDs of different professionals involved in the area; to see views from around the world.