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Hearing Voices Group Facilitator Training, August, 2022
This training will be held IN PERSON at Monadnock Area Peer Support Agency, 32 Washington Street, Keene, NH 03431. Dates include Monday, August 1, Tuesday, August 2, and Wednesday, August 3 from 9am to 5pm. Trainers will include Cindy Hadge and Jude Grophear from the Wildflower Alliance (formerly known as the Western Mass Recovery Learning Community). Cindy has over a decade of experience facilitating HVN groups, including the longest-running HVN group in the United States. Jude Grophear is a long-time facilitator who was instrumental in establishing the first HVN meeting in the state of New Hampshire.
Registration is required. For more details on cost and content of the training, please CLICK HERE!
Current Research Studies of Interest
SING Research Study Seeks Volunteers |
 Voice-hearing volunteers wanted for SING research study at Yale. Up to $700 in compensation for 7 in-person contacts, with compensation of $100 per contact, or $700 total. Travel reimbursement of up to $50 per visit to New Haven is available. To be eligible for the study, you must hear voices that are distressing at least once per day, and be able spare a few hours for research. If you are interested, please contact the Belief Lab at Yale at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. |
Research Study: Person Centered Care Planning and Service Engagement |
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Have you ever participated in behavioral or mental health services but are no longer regularly attending? If so, we would like to learn more about your experiences! We are looking for people to participate in a brief online survey exploring their care experience. Participation is completely voluntary. All information will be kept strictly confidential. People who complete the survey will receive a $30 gift card for their participation, with a possibility to participate in a future study with a gift card of $50. Qualifications: You must be 18 years of age or older. We are particularly interested in hearing from members of African American, Latino/a/x, American Indian, and Asian communities. Spaces are limited. The survey can be found HERE! If you have questions, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
ISPS-US Call For Proposals
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ISPS-US will hold their next conference - Opportunity Through Experience: Psychosis, Extreme States, and Possibilities for Transformation - from November 4-6, 2022, in Sacramento, CA, as well as online. Keynote speakers to include Celia Brown, psychiatric survivor and a long time advocate for people with psychiatric disabilities; Lionel Corbett, psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and professor of depth psychology; Carlos Padrón, licensed psychoanalyst. People with lived experience, family members, clinicians and researchers are all invited to propose presentations that promote mutual collaboration and respect, and can allow us to offer each other both greater understanding and more light. We especially welcome proposals from members of marginalized groups whose experiences have included systemic as well as relational traumas and challenges. Proposals are due by May 30th. More details available HERE!
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New Training Series from IDHA!
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From their website: This virtual series seeks to shine a light on the essential role of community, connection, and relationship in building care systems that center collective liberation. We will explore how we can create the conditions for community in a range of diverse settings; discuss community as a form of resistance to oppression; and introduce concrete approaches, tools, and strategies to foster community care in and outside of the mental health system.
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The Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA) has released information about its upcoming spring training series: Hearing Voices Support Groups for Family & Friends
Hearing Voices groups have been a tremendous support - sometimes life changing - for so many people who hear voices and have other related experiences. However, too many loved ones have remained at a loss for how best to support their family members and friends. In 2019, the Wildflower Alliance began offering family and friend groups in collaboration with Hearing Voices USA Board Member, Ed Herzog, and a handful of other invested family members.
Family & Friend groups are currently held on-line as follows:
Mondays, 8pm to 9:30pm Eastern USA time (7pm Central, 6pm Mountain, 5pm Pacific)
Thursdays, 5:30pm to 7pm Eastern USA time (4:30pm Central, 3:30pm Mountain, 2:30pm Pacific)
E-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more details!
Peter Bullimore Returns to the US In Person in Fall, 2022
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Interested in bringing Peter Bullimore and his co-trainers to your area to offer a talk or training? Peter and his colleagues offer trainings on a range of topics including:
Learn more by clicking HERE! If you'd like to explore the possibility of scheduling Peter and his co-workers in your area for a training and/or speaking engagement, please e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Peter Bullimore and company will be returning in person this spring to the United States for the first time since the COVID pandemic began. Unfortunately, they're all booked up, but are scheduled to return again in the second half of September.Check Out 'Life with Voices: A Guide for Harmony' by Dmitry Gutkovich
This book by former Hearing Voices USA Board of Directors member, Dmitry Gutkovich, offers a toolkit of strategies that have won high praise from those with lived experience, and also from their family members, from academics, and from medical providers. It explores how to learn how to avoid confusing beliefs, defeat hostile voices, and create a voice ecosystem with rules and positivity. Learn more HERE!
Looking for more to read? You may also want to check out 'Hearing Voices, Living Fully' by current Hearing Voices USA Board Member Claire Bien. Learn more HERE!
Have you seen 'Beyond Possible'?
Beyond Possible is a 22-minute film that explores what the Hearing Voices approach looks like, how it began, and the ways in which it is expanding our view of what is possible in the lives of people who hear voices, see visions, and/or have other similarly non-consensus-reality-based experiences. For people who themselves have these experiences, we hope it will help them know that they are not alone in either their struggles or their successes. And, for anyone who sees it, we hope the film will provide some insight and inspiration into how we can work together to build a world where everyone has the potential to live full lives. The film was produced through a collaboration between Open Excellence, Mount Holyoke College Department of Psychology, and the Wildflower Alliance (formerly known as the Western Mass Recovery Learning Community).
Hearing Voices Others Can't: How a Growing Movement Helps Mental Health Stigma
Our own Hearing Voices USA board member, Jeannie Bass, recently was interviewed by NBC. Jeannie had this to say about the experience,
Having the opportunity to be part of a documentary piece with a mainstream network like NBC on the worldwide hearing voices movement was extremely exciting but also challenging. I wasn’t prepared for how difficult sharing my innermost experiences would be on both me and the voices I hear that others don’t. At several points throughout the 2 day interview it felt like I might not be able to keep going (including when I began hearing the filmmaker Marshall’s voice from inside and at times outside my head as well as at the end when I was stung by a family of wasps on the beach while talking on camera) but in the end it was totally worth it. I am appreciative that the film makers took the time to step into my world and try to understand what life for a voice hearer can be like. It isn’t all good or bad for many of us but rather some combination varying day to day. NBC was respectful from start to finish and I feel truly showed a balanced view of the hearing voices movement through my own experience as a voice hearer. This sentiment was echoed by many others in the movement who viewed the piece.
Thank you Jeannie!
View the complete segment here
Our Voices Raised Survey
“Our Voices Raised” which is a research project and survey connected to the larger Hearing Voices Research and Development Project through the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care. This survey is for people who have participated in Hearing Voices groups across the United States. It offers you a chance to share your experience in a Hearing Voices group and to offer a picture of what it is like to hear voices, see visions, or have other experiences that many do not understand.
The survey is part of a scientific study in partnership with Mount Holyoke College and theWestern Mass Recovery Learning Community. Instead of just collecting data, this research has been jointly informed by the expertise of researchers and community members who have themselves participated in Hearing Voices groups. Participation is completely voluntary. You should not feel pressured in any way to complete the survey. Participation will not affect any of your other supports or services. Even if you decide to participate, you can change your mind, stop, skip any question, or delete your information.
Click HERE to begin the survey.
You can also download a paper version of the survey by clicking HERE.
If you have any questions about how to distribute or talk to people about this survey, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before you proceed.
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