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“MAKING RECOVERY HAPPEN”

An afternoon of Information, Art and Entertainment

on the experience of hearing voices

Hearing Voices Network Aotearoa NZ Inc

Te Reo Orooro

Providing support and information for hearing voices, visions, tactile sensations and other sensory experiences         .                                 

 

 

 And

 TOI ORA LIVE ART TRUST 

KINDLY SPONSORED BY: THE NZ LOTTERY GRANTS BOARD

 The Speakers are

 Chris Hocken and Teresa Keedwell (Hearing Voices Network Palmerston North)

    Making Recovery Happen: Share some of their training from UK’s Ron Coleman and talk of their experiences running a hearing voices group.

 Brigitte Sistig (Psychotherapist and Yoga Teacher)

    Using Yoga Practices to help voice hearers

Poets, Performers and Musicians from        Toi Ora Live Art Trust

Will serenade and entertain us with their creative insights and artistic interpretations

 A delightful afternoon tea will be provided along with interesting conversation. 

 When:   Saturday June 27th 2009 1.00 to 4.00pm (AGM 4-5pm)

Where: Toi Ora, 6 Putiki Street, Grey Lynn

Who:    All welcome including voice hearers, friends, family, carers,

Cost:  Free. A donation will be gratefully accepted, or show your support for our work by becoming a member: $10 unwaged, $20 waged.

 To book your space or for more info contact Adrienne hearingvoices@woosh.co.nz /  0211024151

Hearing Voices Network Aotearoa New Zealand is an independent society and a registered charity. We work solely from donations and charitable grants. https://hearingvoicesnetworkanz.wordpress.com  affiliated with the International Hearing Voices Movement see www.intervoiceonline.org

Hearing Voices Support group powerpoint from ISPS NZ conference

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At the ISPS New Zealand conference in Wellington this year, there was an excellent presentation from a team at Starship Child and Famil Unit. In this presentation they shared the results from the Hearing Voices Support Groups they have been running with Debra Lampshire.

It was an interesting Power point presentation, and I see that ISPS New Zealand have loaded it on to their website.

You can see a brief review of the conference and the Powerpoint for the support group  on the ISPS site here

It is titled Hearing Voices Group for Hospitalised young people

An Evening with Professor Richard Bentall

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HEARING VOICES NETWORK AOTEAROA NZ

Te Reo Orooro

Providing support and information for hearing voices, tactile sensations and other sensory experiences

 

Are pleased to invite you to an evening with

 

Professor Richard P. Bentall

 

 

Researcher, 

Professor of Clinical Psychology

 

Esteemed Author 

“Is madness purely a medical condition that can be treated with drugs? Is there really a clear dividing line between mental health and mental illness – or is it not so easy to classify who is sane and who is insane?

In Madness Explained leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround psychosis. This groundbreaking work argues that we cannot define madness as an illness to be cured like any other; that labels such as ‘schizophrenia’ and ‘manic depression’ are meaningless, based on nineteenth-century classifications; and that experiences such as delusions and hearing voices are in fact exaggerations of the mental foibles to which we are all vulnerable.
 
We need, Bentall argues, a radically new way of thinking about psychiatric problems – one that does not reduce madness to brain chemistry, but understands and accepts it as part of human nature.” Excerpt from Penguin Books

 

 

When: 7.30 – 9PM Thursday 19th March 2009

Where: 215 Wairau Rd, Glenfield, Auckland , New Zealand

Entry: Free. We appreciate any donations to help support our work.

All are welcome.Voice hearers, Family, Health Professionals, Concerned Citizens.

Please Bring a plate so we can share supper and

interesting conversation afterwards.

Bookings: Please let us know if you are coming!  

Contact: Adrienne at 0211024151 or email: hearingvoices@woosh.co.nz

 

 


 

What is happening next few days?

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RADIO BROADCAST

Listen out tomorrow for Lorna Murray, the co-chairperson of the Hearing Voices Network Aotearoa NZ, will be speaking on various topics, one of which is hearing voices- on the PlanetFM radio show in Auckland at 12.30pm with Sheldon Brown.  The number to tune your radio into is 104.6 FM.

Don’t worry if you’ve missed it, or aren’t in Auckland, as the show is usually posted on the Like Minds Like US website in the next few days afterwards.

 

AUCKLAND SUPPORT GROUP MEETING

The HVN support group in Auckland is meeting at Te ATA 146 Lincoln Rd, Henderson Auckland On Wednesday 5th November 7pm till 8.30pm. There are only a few more meetings this year before we break for the holidays- 5th and 19th November, 3rd December 2008.

All welcome.

INTERVOICE MEETING IN PERTH.

The INTERVOICE MEETING is being held in Perth Australia this week. Hosted by the Richmond Fellowship. People from all around the world, from many different Hearing Voices Networks are meeting to discuss “Voices and the Emotions.” We would like to wish everyone a pleasant stay in Perth, and look forward to hearing all the reports of the discussions later.  For more information click on HVN Perth or Intervoice website address in the links section of this page.

Hearing distressing Voices Workshop in Palmerston North NZ

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Taking a glimpse inside the mind

By JUDITH LACY – Manawatu Standard | Sunday, 05 October 2008 

At first, the voices are just irritating.

 

And incessant.

You can’t make out what they are saying, but by the tone you know they are not wishing you a nice day.

In both ears, different voices, varying volumes.

Then you pick up the messages: repetitive, commanding, distressing.

“You are disgusting.”

I turn off the tape.

It’s part of the Hearing Voices That Are Distressing workshop, run in Palmerston North by Pathways to Wellbeing Huarahi Whakaoranga Inc.

The interactive, three-hour workshop gives participants insight into some of the challenges faced by people with experience of mental illness, MidCentral region co-ordinator Diana Oomen says.

But listening to the distressing voices is just part of the challenge for workshop participants.

Simultaneously, they have to perform tasks such as brain teasers, reading, asking for information and being interviewed by a health professional.

Ms Oomen says the voices are different to having an internal dialogue, hearing non-distressing voices or trying to tune out background noise while studying.

There’s also not knowing when the voices will start, stop and return, and the tiredness all of it brings.

Imagine, she says, going to the police station to report a break-in, while the voices are occurring.

Or going to Work and Income with a query about your benefit.

Read the full story from the Manawatu Standard here