Hearing Voices Group Facilitation Training (3 days, online)

Please note: This training takes place across 3 days (Fridays 24 October, 31 October and 7 November) from 10am - 4pm online. Please only sign up if you intend to attend all 3 days.

This 3 day online training course, taking place over Zoom from 10am until 4pm, creates a welcoming learning space where you can learn more about setting up and facilitating Hearing Voices Groups. Led by Fiona Malpass, an experienced trainer and facilitator with personal experience of voices and related experiences, this training will use a combination of presentations and interactive exercises and discussions to explore:

> The Hearing Voices Movement approach to Hearing Voices (and related experiences), including some ways people cope with distressing voices

> What a Hearing Voices Group is and how it can help people who struggle with the voices they hear

> Peer support and creating spaces that foster it (whether we hear voices ourselves or not)

> The understanding and skills necessary to set up and facilitate a Hearing Voices Group

> Considerations when in person or online - facilitating different types of groups

> Navigating common challenges experienced by people who set up and/or facilitate Hearing Voices Groups

> Sustaining Hearing Voices Groups and connecting with support offered by the National Network and Intervoice.

We recognise that online training can both increase the accessibility of training courses and also bring some additional challenges (e.g. screen fatigue). Our trainer will be ensuing the course includes regular screen breaks and interactive elements.

This training is suitable for those considering setting up a Hearing Voices Group (or related group) as well as those already facilitating a group who would like to further develop their skills. People who hear voices, see visions or have related experiences as welcome.

For more information on the training course, please email info@hearing-voices.org.

If you require an invoice for your organisation, please email us.

Trainer details:

Fiona works at Mind in Camden as the Project Development and Innovation Lead, working on the Hearing Voices Projects supporting young people, people detained in prisons, forensic settings and immigration removal centres, as well as the London Hearing Voices Network (LHVN). They have studied psychology and philosophy, work with the National Suicide Prevention Alliance as an Influencer, in addition to working as a freelance speaker and trainer. They approach a lot of their work from a lived experience perspective – Fiona has personal experience of many forms of distress, including hearing voices, and uses this in their work to build connections, as well as to challenge the status quo and provide provocations to ways of thinking or working. Fiona is one of our associate trainers.