Healing Voices Screening May 13th

ISPS-US and Hearing Voices NYC Present:
Healing Voices Movie
& post-screening discussion with the filmmakers and subjects.

Register HERE:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/healing-voices-recovering-community-nyc-tickets-33476211249

Sleep in on Saturday morning and then join us for a screening of Healing Voices at the Anthology Film Archive (32 2nd Ave) at 3:00 on May 13th, followed by a discussion with producers PJ Moynihan and Oryx Cohen and other special guests.

Directions:
Bus: M15 to 3rd Street.
Subway: F train to 2nd Avenue, walk two blocks north on 2nd Avenue to 2nd Street;
#6 to Bleecker St., walk one block north on Lafayette, then two blocks east on Bond St. (turns into 2nd St.) to 2nd Avenue.

Tickets are $8-$12. There are small number of discounted tickets available. Contact [email protected] by May 10 for more information.

 

Two Films: One International Movement #EmergingProud

 
CRAZYWISE Screening: 
Date: May 12th 2017
Location: NYU Langone Hospital at First Ave and 30th Street
Alumni Hall A
Time:  Doors open at 6:30pm. Film starts at 7pm.
Panel will follow the film, Featuring: Sascha DuBrul, Issa Ibrahim, Perri Zarella, & Kevin Tomlinson
The event is sponsored by: ISPS-US, Hearing Voices NYC, Icarus Project NYC, & IDHA
Cost: FREE
HEALING VOICES Screening:
Date: May 13th 2017
Location: Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue New York, NY 10003
Time: 3:00-6:o0pm
Panel will follow the film, featuring:  Producer/Director PJ Moynihan, Subject/Co-Producer Oryx Cohen, as well as representatives from East Side Instititute, Hearing Voices NYC, and more. Seating is limited so book your ticket on EventBrite today!
The event is sponsored by: ISPS-US, Hearing Voices NYC, East Side Institute
These films are part of a collaboration with the #EmergingProud campaign! For more information go to: http://www.emergingproud.com/

NYC FREE Screening of CRAZYWISE May 12th

Hearing Voices NYC is happy to announce our collaboration with the #EmergingProud campaign! #EmergingProud is ultimately a campaign about providing hope; that breaking down does not mean we are broken; it means that we can be amidst a difficult journey to ‘breakthrough’.

The launch of International #EmergingProud day on Friday, May 12th, aims to expand the public perception of ‘normal’ all over the world. The event brings together collaboration from many organizations and 8 countries, seeing all voices join to bring evolution in mental health support, and will also include premiere screenings of CRAZYWISE. Together, we are creating a new global movement towards a dream we all share. For more information on the campaign go to: http://www.emergingproud.com/

What:

Screening of the film CRAZYWISE with panel featuring:

Sascha Altman DuBrulNYC Icarus Project & Institute for the Development of Human Arts

Issa Ibrahim– Author of The Hospitals Always Wins 

Peri Zarrella- Hearing Voices Network NYC

Kevin Tomlinson– Director & Executive Producer of CRAZYWISE

When: 

May 12th 2017

Doors open at 6:30pm, Screening starts at 7pm

Where:

NYU Langone Hospital at First Ave and 30th Alumni Hall A

Sponsored by:

International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis – United States Chapter 

Icarus Project NYC 

Institute for the Development of Human Arts

Hearing Voices NYC 

THANK YOU! <3

We wanted to send a huge thank you to everyone who donated money at our event “What Can We Learn From People Who Hear Voices?” and a special thanks to The International Society for Psychological & Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS-US) for sponsoring us!

The event, featuring Jacqui Dillion, Gail Hornstein, Noel Hunter, & Greg Shankland, raised over $2,500 dollars to support the development of Hearing Voices Groups in the United States. With the money, Hearing Voices NYC is going to set up a FREE training for people interested in becoming facilitators for Hearing Voices Groups (most likely in June). Stay tuned for more details…

Greg Shankland, Gail Hornstein, Jacqui Dillion, Noel Hunter, Marie C. Hansen, & Jess Arenella on the steps of the CG Jung Building
Greg Shankland talks on the phenomenology of voices
Amazing cake made by our own Jessica Arenella– Raffled off at our Bake Sale!

 

Noel Hunter & Gail Hornstein talk about how to increase Hearing Voices Groups in NYC
Baked goods made by Allison de Seve, Marie C. Hansen, Halle Thurnauer, Jessica Arenella, & Felicia Sitrin- Plus donated Kosher Cakes from Leah Rokeach
Halle Thurnauer shows off raffle tickets at our bake sale

What Can We Learn From People Who Hear Voices?

Please join us for a lively afternoon exploring how insights from people who have been diagnosed with psychiatric illnesses are raising fundamental questions about mental health, community and human experience.
Featuring:
 
Jacqui Dillon– National Chair, Hearing Voices Network, England, and co-editor of “Living with Voices, An Anthology of 50 Voice Hearers’ Stories of Recovery”. See: www.jacquidillon.org
 
Gail A. Hornstein– Professor of Psychology, Mount Holyoke College, and author of “Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness”. See: www.gailhornstein.com
 
Noel Hunter– Clinical Psychologist and Board Member of Hearing Voices Network USA. See: www.noelrhunter.com
 
Greg Shankland– Voice Hearer and business strategist. He is the founder of MAD-Sense, bringing unique insights to the understanding of intrusive phenomena. See: www.mad-sense.com
 
Plus a bakesale to support Hearing Voices NYC & the Our Voices Raised Project
 
CG Jung Foundation of NYC (28 East 39th Street)
1-5pm 
Sunday April 2nd, 2017
 
$100 Full Free
$60 Students/Reduced Income Fee
 
**All proceeds go to Hearing Voices Network NYC and the Our Voices Raised project **

NADA Acupressure Training for Extreme States!

This event was previously scheduled for 2/9 but cancelled due to snow. NEW DATE: March 2nd 2017, 6-8pm

What: The NADA Protocol is a special type of acupressure/acupuncture used for emotional distress that can be administered by anyone. It is a non-verbal approach to healing that includes non-invasive beads, seeds, or acupuncture needles in the ear. This training was inspired by Will Hall’s most recent Madness Radio Podcast on the subject.

When: March 2nd 2017 at 6-8pm

Where: Jefferson Market Library 425 6th Ave (at 10th Street) 

What to expect: This is a hands-on workshop. Participants will experience for themselves the NADA protocol (i.e., acupressure with beads while sitting quietly). Participants will then be asked to share their experiences with the group and will practice placing the beads on others. There will be plenty of time for questions & answers. The instructor is Jo Ann Lenney, an expert trainer with NADA.

All welcome!

Art Show Featuring Our Own Laura Anne Walker!

Evolutions of Us

Saturday, February 18 – Saturday, March 11, 2017

Reception: Saturday, February 18, 2:30-4:00pm

Being Neighborly presents “Evolutions of Us,” an exhibition of works by the self-taught artists,curated by School of Visual Arts MPS graduate art therapy students. The exhibition is on view at:

SVA West 132 W 21st Street, 5th Floor Gallery.

A group of self-taught artists organize a show about their evolution as individuals and as a collective. The process started twenty-two years ago, when many of these artists first began meeting, creating and exhibiting their art at the Hospital Audiences Inc. (HAI). In 2011 the studio and gallery moved from Manhattan to Long Island City Queens and the name changed to the Healing Arts Initiative (with the same acronym). Membership grew, both in numbers and communal bonds until May 2016 when HAI abruptly filed for bankruptcy. This tight-knit group, all who confront social marginalization and stigmatization, experienced the loss of their creative community as traumatic.

Determined to regain what they had lost, the artists united with their mentor Francis Palazzolo organize art projects around the goal of Being Neighborly. Together they engage with people of diverse backgrounds to form connections and learn from each other through art. In this latest incarnation selected artists collaborate with SVA graduate art therapy students to exhibit this journey. The artists’ adaptation, survival skills and tenacity to continue making art despite the challenges they face is a model social justice. Please join us to support their efforts.

Selected Artists: Aracelis Rivera, Lawrence Willoughby, Vincent Salas, Georgia Redd, Michael Johnson, Jenny Chan, Cynthia Timms, Ray Lopez, Laura Anne Walker, Girl Negron, El Kuumba & Linda Moses.

Graduate Student Curators: Yi-Chien Chang, Saeideh Goiji, RJ Huguenard, Laura Hetzel, Andrea Juliano, Rebecca Rodas, Gabby Simpson

Flyer: evolution of us copy

New Group for Jewish Orthodox Women Forming

 

Boro Park, Brooklyn

Leah Rokeach LCSW  has been co-facilitating a bi-monthly Hearing Voices Group Jewish Orthodox men in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn for past two years. It is an open group and the co-facilitator is a voice hearer. The group meets on Mondays from 4pm to 5:30pm. In mid February, Leah will start a new Hearing Voices style group for Jewish Orthodox women, which will include not only voice hearers, but also women experiencing overwhelming fears, dissociation, seeing visions. It will meet bi-monthly, on alternate Mondays.  The co-facilitator of this group will be a young woman who is an expert by experience.

Contact Leah for more information: [email protected]