Hearing Voices Network Aotearoa NZ- Te Reo OroOro

Hearing voices? Seeing visions? Having unusual experiences?
You deserve support that’s respectful, practical, and led by lived experience.

HVN Aotearoa is a peer support network — not a clinical service.

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People make sense of these experiences in many ways. We won’t force one explanation.

YOU’RE NOT ALONE

For many people, hearing voices (or other unusual sensory experiences) is part of being human. Sometimes it’s neutral, meaningful, or even helpful. Sometimes it’s scary, exhausting, or overwhelming.

Wherever you’re at, you’re welcome here. In Hearing Voices groups, you can share as much or as little as you want, and learn what helps from others who “get it”.

WHO ARE WE?
Hearing Voices Network Aotearoa (Te Reo Orooro) is part of an international movement that supports people to talk openly about voices, visions, and unusual experiences — and to build safer relationships with them over time.

WHAT WE STAND FOR

  • Lived experience leadership
  • Hope and self-determination
  • Respectful, ordinary language
  • Community belonging (not “treatment”)

FIND A GROUP

Find a Hearing Voices support group near you or help us to start one in your area.
We aim to set up groups in communities across Aotearoa. Some in-person, some online.

All our groups are :

  • Peer-led and supportive
  • No referral needed
  • Come when it suits you

See our Groups page for more information

WHAT TO EXPECT AT A GROUP

What happens in a group?
Hearing Voices groups are about connection, empathy, and learning what works — not diagnosing you or telling you what your experience “means”.

In groups we aim for:

  • Respect: each person is the expert in their own experience
  • Choice: you can pass, listen, or speak
  • Confidentiality: what’s shared stays in the room (with clear limits explained)
  • Many perspectives: cultural, spiritual, psychological, and everyday explanations are welcome

2 thoughts on “Hearing Voices Network Aotearoa NZ- Te Reo OroOro”

  2. I live with the experience of hearing voices. The voices I hear upset me quite a lot. I am trying to find out what other people go through, helping them at the same time. To achieve this, I have created a website (http://hearingvoices.info), and I am trying to create a database of what the voices say.

    A database of what ‘the voices’ say to people will help people such as police, paramedics, nurses, social workers, school teachers, academics, psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors, international health care service providers, public speakers, script writers & actors, lawyers & judges, researchers, chemists who make medications, families and friends.

    It will help people who do hear voices by showing that other people hear the same things, by showing how many people hear the same things, by attempting to predict what their voices will say in the future, and by decreasing social isolation.

    Can you imagine having a tool like Google where you put in what you hear, and get back a list of how other people responded when they heard the same thing. Or getting back a list of things that other people have heard that are similar, along with information like their ages, counties, gender, religion and so on.
    All it takes to achieve this is

    1) Go to the Hearing Voices Database research website (http://hearingvoices.info/HearingVoicesSurvey1.aspx) and complete an 8 minute survey
    2) Keep a journal/diary of what the voices say to you. Then every now and again, visit the Hearing Voices Database research website journal page (http://hearingvoices.info/AuditoryHallucinationDescriptions.aspx) and enter what is in your journal/diary.

    Please help yourself and other people. Visit the Hearing Voices Database research website and participate by completing the survey(s) and providing journal (1st person transcript) data.

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