Living with Voice Hearers: How family members can assist people who hear voices

Living with Voice Hearers

How family members can assist people who hear voices to cope better with their experience and on their journey to recovery

A one day workshop for family members introducing the hearing voices approach, an empowering way to assist people who hear voices to live successfully with the experience.

Ron Coleman and Paul Baker from Working to Recovery, in the United Kingdom

This workshop is for parents, other family members and friends. It is intended to help you to develop new and more empowering ways of assisitng voice hearers in their recovery journey.

The workshop offers a new perspective on what the voices may represent and how you can help your relative/friend cope with their distressing voices.

  • Understanding the voice hearing experience
  • The family support role – what it is and what it isn’t
  • The practicalities of helping voice hearers
  • How to regain a sense of being in charge of your life
  • Find out about self help groups and other forms of help

Learning Outcomes: An introduction to and working knowledge of the hearing voices approach and ways that you can assist a family member or friend people who hears voices

This workshop is aimed at: Family members and friends of voice hearers,Mental Health workers and managers;Peer Support Workers; Community Development Workers; Service Users; Mental Health Activists; Community based mental health workers; Voluntary and independent sector workers and volunteers.

Ron Coleman is a Mental Health Trainer and Consultant specialising in Recovery and Psychosis. Following his role as national co-ordinator of the „Hearing Voices Network‟ he used his experiences of recovery to design Workbooks and Training packages to enable voice hearers to gain ascendancy over the negative aspects of the voice hearing experience.

Paul Baker is the honorary executive officer of INTERVOICE, the influential coordinating body for the international hearing voices movement, working closely with Professor Marius Romme. Paul was one of the founding members of the Hearing Voices Network in England and helped to set up the first hearing voices group in Manchester in 1989. He is a community development and group worker, specialising in working with people with mental health problems. He has a special interest in working with groups of people to find ways of help themselves overcome difficulties and problems.

For more information about the workshop, costs and scheduling contact Karen Taylor  karen@workingtorecovery.co.uk