Session 1: Monday 21st July 2025 (10-3.30pm UK time)
Session 2: Monday 28th July 2025 (10-3.30pm UK time)
Session 3: Wednesday 30th July 2025 (10-3.30pm UK time)
Registration entails a commitment to attend ALL three sessions
This online training course, run across 3 days, is open to people who would like to develop or sustain a Hearing Voices Peer Support Group.
Suitable both for professionals and for those with lived experience of voices, visions or beliefs. The training caters to those working across a number of settings including community settings and secure or forensic settings, and to those working with diverse populations including young people.
This training is a collaboration of three hearing voices projects at Mind in Camden
Voice Collective: a UK–wide project that supports young people who hear voices, see visions or have other sensory experiences or beliefs.
London Hearing Voices Network: a London-wide capacity-building project to increase the quality and quantity of peer support groups for adults who hear voices or see visions.
Voices Unlocked: a Mind in Camden project dedicated to supporting people who hear voices in prisons, secure units and Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs).
ABOUT HEARING VOICES GROUPS
Peer support groups are an established and valuable resource for people who experience voices, visions and other unusual sensory perceptions or alternative realities. Groups provide a safe space to share individual viewpoints, support each other, and find ways of making sense of experiences.
The majority of groups take place in the community, but others can be found embedded for example in hospitals, in prisons and in Early Intervention teams.
ABOUT THE COURSE
We will cover the following:
• Diverse experiences and understandings of voices, visions, beliefs/alternate realities and 'psychosis'
• Coping strategies and pathways to recovery
• Power and empowerment related to voice hearing
• Practical facilitation skills, including dealing with difficult situations/problem solving
• Planning, launching and sustaining Hearing voices groups
• Training includes consideration of online groups
Grounded in lived experience, and our work supporting people in different settings, we use PowerPoint slides, practical activity and discussion to cater to a variety of learning styles.
"I would like to say it was one of the best courses I have attended and a great opportunity for exploration and learning."
- Trainee from 3-day facilitation training
